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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Biology, Forensic Science Track (BS) Sample Plan


YEAR ONE

Fall Spring
EN - 103 Composition and Rhetoric I   3 EN - 104 Composition and Rhetoric II   3
UNIV - 101 First-Year Experience   3 Expanded Literacies (2/6) 3
BI - 151 Introductory Biology I  + BI 151L (Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Scientific Inquiry - 1/6)  4 BI - 152 Introductory Biology II  + BI 152L 4
CH - 101 General Chemistry I  + CH 101L + CH 101P 5 CH - 102 General Chemistry II  + CH 102L + CH 102P 5
    UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy   1
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 16

YEAR TWO

Fall Spring
PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or TH - 109 Catholic Theology   3 PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or TH - 109 Catholic Theology ​                                                  3
MA - 121 Calculus I  (Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Mathematical Reasoning - 3/6)   3 MA - 122 Calculus II   3
BI - 255 Molecular Biology  + BI 255L 4 BI - 330 Genetics  + BI 330L 4
CH - 231 Organic Chemistry I  + CH 231L 4 CH - 232 Organic Chemistry II  + CH 232L 4
UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy   1 Expanded Literacies (4/6) 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 17

YEAR THREE

Fall Spring
Lens 1, 2, or 3 (1/3)  3 Lens 1, 2, or 3 (2/3)  3
Expanded Literacies (5/6)  3 BI - 356 Human Structure and Function II  + BI 356L 4
CJ - 109 Crime and Society   (Satisfies Expanded Literacies: Social Analysis - 6/6)  3 PH - 202 General Physics II: Wave Phenomena and Electromagnetism  + PH 202L 5
BI - 355 Human Structure and Function I  + BI 255L 4 CJ - 208 Crime Lab   3
PH - 201 General Physics I: Mechanics and Heat  + PH 201L 5 Free Elective 3
TOTAL CREDITS 18 TOTAL CREDITS 18

YEAR FOUR

Fall Spring
Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 (3/3) 3 Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 (3/3) 3
BI - 455 Biology Capstone   3 BI - 221 Biostatistics   3
Ecology or Evolutionary BI Elective* 3-4 CH - 305 Forensic Toxicology   3
MA - 111 Probability and Statistics   3 CJ - 360 Forensics and Criminal Investigation   3
Free Elective 3 PS - 295 Forensic Psychology  or PS - 365 Psychological Sleuthing   3
TOTAL CREDITS 15-16 TOTAL CREDITS 15  

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS (Minimum)*: 129

*The total number of credits will be influenced by the number of credits of the biology elective. Biology electives may have a laboratory component and, therefore, will be 4 credits.

**Forensic Toxicology (CH 305 ) is typically offered every other spring. Please adjust your third and fourth year schedule accordingly.

For more information about the requirements in our general education Connections Curriculum, which are included in the sample plan above, please see I. General Education (Connections Curriculum), which can be found in The Undergraduate Program .