Bachelor of Science Degree:
Major in Ecology and Environmental Biology
Required courses for a Major program in Ecology and Environmental Biology are as follows.
First Year BIOL 1110 Principles of Biology I
BIOL 1210 Principles of Biology II
CHEM 1500 Chemical Bonding and Organic Chemistry
CHEM 1510 Fundamentals of Chemistry; or
CHEM 1520 Principles of Chemistry
ENGL 1100 Composition; or
ENGL 1110 Introduction to Prose
+ 3 additional credits of academic English
MATH 1130 Enriched Calculus I (or MATH 1140 or 1150)
MATH 1230 Enriched Calculus II (or Math 1240 or 1250)
PHYS 1100 Fundamentals of Physics I (or PHYS 1150)
PHYS 1200 Fundamentals of Physics II (or PHYS 1250)
Second Year BIOL 2130 Cell Biology
BIOL 2340 Introduction to Genetics
BIOL 2170 Introduction to Ecology
BIOL 2280 The Evolution and Ecology of Land Plants
BIOL 2290 Evolution of Animal Body Plans
BIOL 2300 Communicating Biology
+ 3 credits of Computing Science
CHEM 2120 Organic Chemistry I
CHEM 2220 Organic Chemistry II
+ Elective courses
Third and Fourth YearsBIOL 3000 Biometrics
BIOL 3020 Community & Ecosystem Ecology
BIOL 3030 Population Biology
BIOL 3130 Introduction to Biochemistry
BIOL 3350 Molecular Genetics
Two of the following:
BIOL 3510 Plant Physiology
BIOL 3520 Cell Physiology
BIOL 3540 Human Physiology 1
BIOL 3550 Human Physiology 2
(Or one of the above and BIOL 4110 Advanced Microbiology Lab and BIOL 4210 Microbial Physiology)
BIOL 4130 Molecular Evolution; or
BIOL 4140 Evolution
+ Ecology and general electives