The Biology minor provides a solid core of fundamental biology courses coupled with advanced biology electives you can choose to customize your minor. If you are interested in biology, but majoring in something else, this minor can give you the best of both worlds.
In addition to deepening your understanding and appreciation of the living world, a Biology minor expands your career and grad school opportunities by enabling you to take your non-biology major in exciting new directions.
Whether you are a Marine Science major, an Environmental Science, Technology & Policy major, or a non-science major who wants to bring a scientific understanding of animals, plants, human biology into your degree and your future, the Biology minor has been designed to work for you.
Minimum of 19 credits. At least 12 credits, including 6 upper-division credits, must be unique to the minor and not double-count for a student's major.
Complete all of the following pre-requisite courses:
Pre-requisite courses do not count towards the credit requirement for the minor
Complete both of the following core biology courses, or their equivalents:
Complete at least three of the following for 9 to 12 credits, including at least one course with a lab component:
BIO 342 (lab)
BIO 430 (lab)
BIO 448 (lab)
BIO 461 (lab)
The minor requires a minimum of 12 credits that do not double-count for the major. At least 6 of those 12 credits must be courses numbered 300 or above. Most BIO minors who take BIO 210/L and BIO 211/L for their major will need 12 upper-division credits that do not double-count for their major.
Students understand and describe the role of contemporary evolutionary theory as it applies to explaining the diversity of life and life processes on earth, including molecular and cellular biology, genetics, organismal biology and ecology, and medicine, and they apply basic scientific principles and methods to these biological processes.
Students apply scientific principles and methods in one or more areas of Biology selected from among courses in molecular life processes, the structure and function of cells, organismal biology, genetics, evolution, or experimental and theoretical ecology.