General Requirements:

See Core Curriculum in the General Catalog

Major:

1. Core Courses (*see below): 28 semester hours

2. Biology Electives: 12 semester hours

3. BIOL 4160 and 4170, Literature: 2 semester hours

Supporting Sciences:

1. General Chemistry - 8 semester hours

2. Organic Chemistry - 8 semester hours

3. General Physics - 8 semester hours

4. Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Immunology or Molecular Biology - 3 or 4 semester hours

5. Statistics - 4 semester hours

6.  Computer Science, COSC 1371

Electives:

Sufficient electives to complete a total of 121semester hours.

*Biology Core:

BIOL 2420 Microbiology

BIOL 3460, Invertebrate Zoology or Parasitology (pre-med and pre-vet only)

BIOL 3450, Botany

BIOL 3428, Comparative Anatomy ,BIOL 4440, Vertebrate Natural History, Ornithology, Desert Field Mammalogy, Ichthyology, or Herpetology

BIOL 3470, Genetics

Suggested Program of Study

First Year

Second Year

English Comp

6

English Lit

3

BIOL 1406, 1407, General

8

CHEM 3411, 3412, Organic

8

CHEM 1411, 1412, General

8

PHYS 1401, 1402, General

8

MATH 2312, Precalculus

3

BIOL selected from core

8

Social Science

3

COMM 1315

3

PHIL 1370

3

PEGA

1

Total semester hours

31

Total semester hours

31

Third Year

Fourth Year

POLS 2301, 2302

6

BIOL 4160, 4170, Biol Lit

2

CHEM 4411 or 4 hrs. Cell bio

4

BIOL electives

4

PSYC 2471, Statistics

4

Electives

6

BIOL selected from core

12

American History

6

BIOL elective

8

Fine Arts

3

Total semester hours

34

ENGL 3310, Tech Report Writing

3

Total semester hours

24