Biology, Ecology and Conservation Biology Track, B.S.

Required: 24 s.h.

• BIOL 180 - Biology I: Cells to Organisms 4 s.h.
• BIOL 181 - Biology II: Ecology and Evolution 4 s.h.
• BIOL 201 - Cell and Molecular Biology 4 s.h.

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• BIOL 212 - Genetics 4 s.h.

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• BIOL 269 - Methods in Population Genetics 4 s.h.

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• BIOL 216 - Evolution 3 s.h.
• BIOL 282 - Ecology 4 s.h.
• BIOL 393 - Senior Seminar 1 s.h.

Choice of Immersion Experience: 1-4 s.h.

Five BIOL Elective Courses: 15-20 s.h.

Five BIOL electives, four of which must be from the list below; at least two electives must be at the 300-level.  BIOL courses that cannot be used as major electives are BIOL 295-299, BIOL 395-399, BIOL 202 , BIOL 203 , BIOL 208 , and BIOL 315 . A course cannot be used as both an elective and an Immersion Experience.

• BIOL 212 - Genetics 4 s.h.
• BIOL 217 - Quantitative Biology 4 s.h.
• BIOL 236 - Vascular Plant Systematics 4 s.h.
• BIOL 238 - Dendrology 4 s.h.
• BIOL 244 - Entomology 4 s.h.
• BIOL 259 - Marine Biology 3 s.h.
• BIOL 269 - Methods in Population Genetics 4 s.h.
• BIOL 271 - Global Studies in Conservation and Sustainability 2 s.h.
• BIOL 285 - NY Stream Biota: Identification and Ecology 4 s.h.
• BIOL 317 - Biological Literacy 3 s.h.
• BIOL 320 - Field Botany 3 s.h.
• BIOL 321 - Tropical Biology Field Course 3 s.h.
• BIOL 322 - Bryology 4 s.h.
• BIOL 333 - Field Study of the Rocky Mountain Region 3 s.h.
• BIOL 342 - Invertebrate Zoology 4 s.h.
• BIOL 344 - Field Entomology 4 s.h.
• BIOL 346 - Parasitology 4 s.h.
• BIOL 351 - Ichthyology 4 s.h.
• BIOL 356 - Animal Behavior 4 s.h.
• BIOL 367 - Aquatic Pollution 3 s.h.
• BIOL 370 - Mammalian Physiology I 3 s.h.
• BIOL 375 - Physiology of Plants 3 s.h.
• BIOL 378 - Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates 4 s.h.
• BIOL 383 - Wetland Environments and Delineation 4 s.h.
• BIOL 384 - Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology 4 s.h.
• BIOL 385 - Limnology 4 s.h.
• BIOL 386 - Seminar in Conservation Biology 3 s.h.

Required: 15 s.h.

• CHEM 111 - General Chemistry I 4 s.h.
• CHEM 112 - General Chemistry II 4 s.h.

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• CHEM 221 - Organic Chemistry I 4 s.h.

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• CHEM 226 - Elementary Organic Chemistry 4 s.h.

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• STAT 101 - Introduction to Statistics 3 s.h.

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• BIOL 217 - Quantitative Biology 4 s.h. *

• *Cannot be overlapped with major requirements.

One of the Following Courses: 4 s.h.

• CHEM 322 - Organic Chemistry II 4 s.h.
• CHEM 330 - General Biochemistry 4 s.h.
• ENVS 214 - Principles of Soil Science 4 s.h.
• GEOL 120 - Introduction to Geology 4 s.h.
• GEOL 182 - Water and the Blue Planet 4 s.h.
• PHYS 103 - General Physics I (Non-Calculus) 4 s.h.
• PHYS 203 - General Physics I 4 s.h.