Dec 12, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Biology (BS)


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Biology is not available as a dual major for students who have declared a major in biochemistry-molecular biology or neuroscience.

Required Courses


All laboratories for the required courses below must be taken in person. Courses completed elsewhere without an in-person laboratory (i.e., with an online or at-home laboratory instead) will not be accepted for transfer even if the content is otherwise the same as in the course requirement below.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology


Biology Electives


Any 2 BI or NEU courses with 3 or more credits; excludes Expanded Literacies: Scientific Inquiry courses, online courses, and Lens courses. Two of the three electives must have a laboratory component.

Note: BI 461  and NEU 491  can only fulfill the biology elective once.

5-year BS/MBA Degree Program


Students who major in the Biology, B.S. can earn both an undergraduate degree in Biology and a Master of Arts in Business Administration (MBA) in the five-year (4 +1) option. Students in their junior year majoring in Biology, B.S. and who have earned a cumulative GPA of 3.00 or higher, are eligible to apply for admittance into the five-year Biology BS/MBA degree program. Students begin taking three graduate level courses during their senior year of undergraduate study. These three graduate courses will count both towards the completion of the undergraduate degree and a MBA.

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