General Requirements:

See Core Curriculum in the General Catalog

Major:

1. Core Courses (*see below): 32 semester hours

2. Biology Electives: 12 semester hours

3. BIOL 4300 Development of Biological Thought (senior capstone)

Supporting Sciences:

1. General Chemistry - 8 semester hours

2. Organic Chemistry - 8 semester hours

3. General Physics - 8 semester hours

4. Statistics - 4 semester hours

Electives:

Sufficient electives to complete a total of 121semester hours.

*Biology Core:

Biol 1406 and 1407 General Biology

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, 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 4300 Development of Biological Thought

3

 Cell biology or Molecular Biology

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

Biology scientific report writing course

4

Total semester hours

26