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Course Requirements

Course Title Quarter Hours
BIO 210MICROBIOLOGY4
BIO 220BIOTECHNOLOGY4
BIO 250CELL BIOLOGY4
BIO 349TOPICS IN MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY4
Select two courses from the following list, one of which must be a lab course:8
EVOLUTION
ADVANCED MICROBIOLOGY
MOLECULAR METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
TOPICS IN MEDICAL BACTERIOLOGY
THE BIOLOGY OF INFECTION
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
ADVANCED GENETIC ANALYSIS
IMMUNOBIOLOGY
INTRODUCTION TO PHARMACOLOGY
BIOCHEMISTRY I
and EXPERIMENTAL BIOCHEMISTRY I
BIOCHEMISTRY II
and EXPERIMENTAL BIOCHEMISTRY II
MOLECULAR VIROLOGY
SPECIAL TOPICS 1
Select three additional majors-level Biology courses 212
1

Students can request permission from the department to have a BIO 390 class count for one of the requirements if appropriate.

2

CHE 234 & 235, 340 & 341, 346, HLTH 301, 302, 320, and NEU 201 also fulfills this requirement.

Biology courses other than the General Biology sequence that have any Scientific Inquiry domain designation do not generate credit toward the major or minor. 

Open Electives

Open elective credit also is required to meet the minimum graduation requirement of 192 hours.