Programs

Biology

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• Total Credits Required for Degree

  32

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• Required Courses in the Major:

  4-10
• BI 500 Planning and Proposing Scientific Research

  2
• BI 589 Research in Biology *

  1-4
• BI 599A Thesis in Biology

  1-4
• Electives:
• Choose from the following:

  24-30
• BI 402 Microbial Ecology (3 cr.)
• BI 404 Virology (3 cr.)
• BI 405 Immunology (3 cr.)
• BI 406 Advanced Cell Biology

  4
• BI 410 Ecology of the Great Lakes (4 cr.)
• BI 411 Limnology (4 cr.)
• BI 412 Biometrics (4 cr.)
• BI 413 Biochemistry of Development (4 cr.)
• BI 418 Molecular Biology (4 cr.)
• BI 419 Biology of Cancer

  4
• BI 420 Neuroscience

  4
• BI 423 Parasitology (3 cr.)
• BI 424 Entomology (4 cr.)
• BI 425 Endocrinology (3 cr.)
• BI 426 Human Histology (4 cr.)
• BI 427 Ecological Animal Physiology (4 cr.)
• BI 428 Behavioral Ecology (4 cr.)
• BI 430 Plant Anatomy (4 cr.)
• BI 431 Plant Physiology (4 cr.)
• BI 433 Boreal Flora (2-3 cr.)
• BI 434 Plant Ecology (4 cr.)
• BI 435 Boreal Ecosystems (4 cr.)
• BI 441 Fisheries Management (3 cr.)
• BI 442 Wildlife Management (4 cr.)
• BI 443 Introduction to Aquaculture

  4
• BI 460 Ichthyology (3 cr.)
• BI 461 Herpetology (4 cr.)
• BI 462 Ornithology (4 cr.) (4 cr. as of 8/23/10)
• BI 463 Mammalogy (3 cr.)
• BI 465 Aquatic Insect Ecology (4 cr.)
• BI 491 Seminar (1 cr.)
• BI 495 Special Topics in Biology (1-4 cr.)
• BI 502 Scientific laboratory Instruction

  2
• BI 510 Advanced Human Physiology (4 cr.)
• BI 511 Advanced Animal Physiology (3 cr.)
• BI 513 Advanced Ecology (4 cr.)
• BI 514 Population Genetics (3 cr.)
• BI 516 Bio Systems Analysis (1 cr.)
• BI 517 Population Ecology (3 cr.)
• BI 518 Gene Structure and Function (2 cr.)
• BI 519 Bioinformatics (2 cr.)
• BI 520 Systematics (3 cr.)
• BI 521 Advanced Exercise Physiology (3 cr.)
• BI 531 Advanced Seminar in Exercise Physiology * (3 cr.)
• BI 590 Graduate Seminar in Biology * (1 cr.)
• BI 595 Special Topics in Biology * (1-4 cr.)
• BI 596 Special Topics in Biology * (1-4 cr.)
• BI 598 Directed Study Research in Biology * (1-4 cr.)

Note: Up to 12 elective credits may be taken from departments other than Biology. These courses must be at the 400- or 500-level and they must be approved for graduate credit and by the student's advisory committee.

*Elective courses of unspecified content will only be counted toward a degree if approval of student's thesis advisory committee had been obtained prior to enrollment in the course.