Major Requirements
College Core
Student must successfully complete five Intellectual & Scholarly Growth requirements and four Social Justice requirements.
- Information Literacy Proficiency (IDS 102)
- First-Year Writing (FYW 102)
- First-Year Seminar (FYS)
- Mid-Level Writing-Intensive Course
- Writing-Intensive Senior Capstone or Third-Level Course
*Including all other college core requirements required by the college
Biology Correlates (3 units)
- CHE/HON 201: General Chemistry I
- CHE/HON 202: General Chemistry II
- MAT 127: Calculus A
Biology Major Core (5 units)
- BIO 99: Orientation to Biology
- BIO 201: Foundations of Biological Inquiry
- BIO 211: Cell Biology and Biochemistry
- BIO 221: Ecology and Field Biology
- BIO 231: Genetics
Complete one Biology Capstone
- BIO 495: Independent Research in Biology Capstone
- BIO 496: Honors Independent Research in Biology Capstone
- BIO 498: Biology Seminar
Biology Organisms and Evolution Options (1 unit)
Complete one course or complete both BIO 365 and BIO 366
- BIO 332: Biology Vertebrates
- BIO 341: The Biology of Seed Plants
- BIO 342: Biology of Invertebrates
- BIO 343: General Entomology
- BIO 344: Avian Biology
- BIO 350: Biology of Fungi
- BIO 370: Topics in Biology
- BIO 411: Animal Physiology
- BIO 420: The Ecology & Evolution of Plants-Insect Interactions
- BIO 365 Natural History of the Galapagos Islands & Ecuador I
- BIO 366 Natural History of the Galapagos Islands & Ecuador II
Biology Major Option/Concentration (3 units)
Complete three courses
- Only one course unit from among BIO 393, 399, 493, or 494 may count as an options course. Additional course units will count as elective credit.