Environmental Science Minor Requirements

Prerequisite: None

In this course, you will gain the fundamental knowledge and skills that are necessary to advance in the biology major. You will develop the ability to study biology effectively and to think critically about relevant biological concepts. You will study cells & cellular processes, physiology, molecular biology and genetics, ecology, and evolution.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

*Students who do not place into College Algebra, MAT 0115, or a higher-level math course must first take this course and its associated one-credit laboratory before enrolling in BIO 150 General Biology I.

Prerequisite: Students should enroll concurrently in lectures and labs. Permission Of Instructor (POI) is needed just to take the lecture course.

Laboratory that accompanies and is a corequisite to the General Biology Fundamentals Lecture (BIO 0130). In this course, you will develop laboratory skills necessary for advancement in the biology major. You will practice microscopy, measuring with laboratory tools, dissection, and data analysis and interpretation. You will investigate important biological concepts presented in lecture by doing inquiry-based laboratory exercises.

Offered spring semester. (1 Credit)

*Students who do not place into College Algebra, MAT 0115, or a higher-level math course must first take this course and its associated one-credit laboratory before enrolling in BIO 150 General Biology I.

Prerequisite: None

This chemistry survey course presents an overview of the fundamentals of general, organic, and biological chemistry. Students are expected to develop a basic understanding of core models used in chemistry to describe, explain and predict properties of matter in qualitative and quantitative manners.

Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)

*Students who do not place into College Algebra, MAT 0115 or a higherlevel math course must first take this course and its associated one-credit laboratory before enrolling in CHE-0142 General Chemistry I.

Prerequisite: Students should enroll concurrently in lectures and labs. Permission Of Instructor (POI) is needed just to take the lecture course.

The course is the laboratory to accompany General Chemistry Fundamentals lecture, CHE 0130. It enhances students learning of chemical concepts through hands-on experiments. Emphasis is placed on matter, measurement, energy and chemical reactions.

Offered fall semester. (1 Credit)

*Students who do not place into College Algebra, MAT 0115 or a higherlevel math course must first take this course and its associated one-credit laboratory before enrolling in CHE-0142 General Chemistry I.

Prerequisite: High school biology and high school chemistry and placement into MAT 0115 or a level higher math class, or a grade of C- or higher in BIO 0130, BIO 0131, CHE 0130, and CHE 0131.

Introductory course into the cellular structure with emphasis on the cell cycle, genetics, and cellular metabolism.

Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

An introductory laboratory, to accompany BIO 0150, examining cellular structure with emphasis on the cell cycle, genetics, and cellular metabolism

Offered fall semester. (1 Credit)

Prerequisite: AP biology score of 4, BIO 0150 and BIO 0151 with a minimum grade of C.

Insights into the diversity of life by comparing the biology of organisms on different branches of the tree of life. Emphasis is on understanding evolutionary relationships among plants and animals by focusing on comparative anatomy, physiology, and ecology.

Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

An introductory laboratory, to accompany BIO 0155, examining the diversity of life. Emphasis is on understanding plant and animal biology, ecology, and evolution.

Offered spring semester. (1 Credit)

Prerequisite: None

A study of the fundamental inter-relationships between plants and animals and their living and non-living environment. Includes laboratory and field experience.

Offered every other year, fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

Laboratory experience, to accompany BIO 0230, Ecology.

Offered every other year, fall semester. (1 Credit)

Prerequisite: AP Biology or BIO 0150 and BIO 0151.

An introduction to modern evolutionary theory, emphasizing speciation in general and in humans in particular. Supporting evidence derived from paleontology, biogeography, taxonomy, embryology, comparative anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and genetics.

Offered every other year, fall semester. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None

The laboratory accompanies the lecture course Evolution (BIO 0240). Laboratory studies include modeling and experiments of evolutionary processes, systematics, and classification of organisms, observations of structural and functional adaptations important to diverse groups of organisms, and deducing patterns of descent from morphological and molecular data.

Offered every other year, fall semester. (1 Credit)

Prerequisite: BIO 0150, BIO 0155, CHE 0142, CHE 0145, and either BIO 0230 or BIO 0240; or Permission Of Instructor (POI).

This is an upper-level biology course for majors that focuses on oceanography, the diversity and functioning of different marine ecosystems, the biology of marine organisms, and threats to the ocean environment. General ecological principles as they apply to the marine environment will be highlighted. Requirements: Field trip.

Offered fall semester as needed. (3 Credits)