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Biology - Microbiology Option

Administered by Biological and Allied Health Sciences

Effective Fall, 2005

The option provides a biology major the opportunity to specialize in microbiology while obtaining a general background in biology.

A maximum of 3 cr hr of BIOLOGY.490 may be applied as biology elective credit toward the degree. A maximum of 6 cr hr from among BIOLOGY.390, BIOLOGY.391, BIOLOGY.490, BIOLOGY.493 and BIOLOGY.494 may be applied as biology elective credit toward the degree.

BIOLOGY.114 Concepts in Biology I

BIOLOGY.115 Concepts in Biology II

BIOLOGY.242 Microbiology

BIOLOGY.271 Cell Biology

BIOLOGY.332 Genetics

BIOLOGY.342 Medical Microbiology

BIOLOGY.343 Immunology

BIOLOGY.351 Ecology

BIOLOGY.481 Senior Biology Seminar

BIOLOGY.479 Integrated Physiology Laboratory

And at least one of the following physiology lecture courses (BIOLOGY.478 Microbial Physiology is recommended):

BIOLOGY.472 Animal Cell Physiology
BIOLOGY.474 Human Physiology
BIOLOGY.477 Plant Physiology
BIOLOGY.478 Microbial Physiology
BIOLOGY.480 Comparative Animal Physiology

Choose one of the following two sets:

PHYSICS.111 Introductory Physics I and PHYSICS.112 Introductory Physics II

PHYSICS.211 General Physics I and PHYSICS.212 General Physics II

CHEM.115 Chemistry for the Sciences I

CHEM.116 Chemistry for the Sciences II

CHEM.230 Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry

CHEM.341 Biochemistry

Choose one of the following three sets:

MATH.141 Introduction to Statistics or 48.160 Basic Statistics, and MATH.123 Essentials of Calculus

MATH.141 Introduction to Statistics or 48.160 Basic Statistics, and MATH.125 Calculus I

MATH.125 Calculus I and MATH.126 Calculus II

Electives (12 semester hours). Choose from:

BIOLOGY.333 Molecular Biology

BIOLOGY.350 Plant Pathology

BIOLOGY.411 Radiation Biology

BIOLOGY.432 Microbial and Molecular Genetics

BIOLOGY.435 Bioinformatics and Genomic Analysis

BIOLOGY.442 Virology of Mammals

BIOLOGY.450 Mycology

BIOLOGY.455 Environmental Microbiology

BIOLOGY.470 Medical Parasitology

BIOLOGY.483 Medical Mycology

CHEM.442 Biochemistry II

MARSCI.320 Marine Microbiology