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Sample 4 Yr. Programs

Environmental Science

Biochemistry Major

Health Professions

Joseph Moore Museum

Off-Campus Study

Galapagos

Tanzania

Marine Biology

Southwest Field Studies

Wilderness Program

Bahamas Iguana Research

Nebraska Reptile Research

Selected Student
and Faculty
Research Reports

Student-Faculty
Research Presentations

Kakamega Forest

Conservation Biology Senior Seminar

Biology Department Program

The department presently offers four courses that fulfill general education requirements for natural science: three are lab courses (BIOL 111, 112 and 121) and one non-lab (BIOL 124). The specific goals of these courses vary, but all are designed to enhance scientific literacy. Each gives students tools for life-long learning and for informed, ethical decision-making on important biologically-related issues such as the environment, medicine, sexuality, nutrition, and genetics.

First-year students interested in possibly majoring in Biology are strongly encouraged to take BIOL 111 and CHEM 111 in their first semester and BIOL 112 and CHEM 112 in the second semester. Completing both the Biology and Chemistry introductory sequences in the first year will significantly reduce future scheduling conflicts and reduce constraints on other exciting opportunities later on, such as off-campus study.

The Major

All of the following courses are required:

•  BIOL 111  Ecological Biology
  
•  BIOL 112  Cells, Genes, and Inheritance
  
•  BIOL 226  Biological Diversity
  
•  BIOL 341  Cell Physiology
  
•  BIOL 480  Senior Seminar
  
•  CHEM 111  Principles of Chemistry
  
•  CHEM 221  Organic Chemistry I
  
•  CHEM 224  Organic Lab  OR   CHEM 322  Organic Lab Projects

•  CHEM 321  Organic Chemistry II
  
•  CHEM 331  Equilibrium and Analysis
  
•  GEOL 111  Environmental Geoscience
  
•  GEOL 211  Dynamic Earth
  
•  MATH 120  Elementary Statistics
  
•  MATH 180  Calculus A
  
•  MATH 240  Calculus B
  
•  PHYS 120  General Physics I
  
•  PHYS 125  Analytical Physics I
  
•  PSYC 342  Experimental Psychology
  

Majors should complete at least 15 additional credits in upper-level Biology courses.

Majors must successfully complete comprehensive examinations in the Spring Semester of the senior year.

The Minor

Two courses from the following list:

•  BIOL 111  Ecological Biology
  
•  BIOL 112  Cells, Genes, and Inheritance
  
•  BIOL 226  Biological Diversity
  
•  BIOL 121  Human Biology  OR   BIOL 124  Nutrition
  

•   Option A
•  A total of at least 20 credits in Biology  and
  
•  CHEM 111  Principles of Chemistry
  
•  CHEM 221  Organic Chemistry I
  
•  CHEM 224  Organic Lab  OR   CHEM 322  Organic Lab Projects
  


•  Option B
  
•  At least 23 credits, of which at most 11 may be from the introductory courses listed above, and the remaining hours from upper-level offerings. This is for the student not taking ancillary Chemistry courses.