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Biology Secondary Education, BA or BS

Biology Major Core (5 course units)

  • BIO 099: Orientation to Biology
  • BIO 201: Foundations of Biological Inquiry
  • BIO 211: Cell Biology and Biochemistry
  • BIO 221: Ecology and Field Biology
  • BIO 231: Genetics
  • BIO 498: Biological Seminar

Biology Major Options (4 course units)

  • One organismal biology option
  • Three biology option courses (by advisement)

Education Specialization (9 course units)

  • SED 099 College Seminar (0 course units)
  • SPE 103 Social and Legal Foundations of Special Education
  • RAL 328 Reading in Secondary Education: Supporting Adolescent Literacies
  • SED 399 Pedagogy in Secondary Schools
  • PHY 390 Methods of Teaching Science
  • SED 224 Adolescent Learning and Development
  • EFN 299 Schools, Communities & Culture
  • BIO 490 Student Teaching Biology (2 course units)
  • SED 498 Collaborative Capstone for Professional Inquiry

Correlate Courses (7 course units for the BS degree, or 3 for the BA)

  • CHE 201: General Chemistry I
  • CHE 202: General Chemistry II
  • CHE 331: Organic Chemistry I (BS only)
  • CHE 332: Organic Chemistry II (BS only)
  • MAT 127: Calculus A
  • MAT 128: Calculus B;  MAT 200: Proof Writing through Discrete Mathematics; or STA 215: Statistical Inference and Probability (BS only)
  • PHY 201: Physics I (BS only)

For more information on this program, please visit the Undergraduate Bulletin and Program Summary Sheets.

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