Programs

Integrated Biosciences

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• Total Credits Required for Degree

  32

• Required Courses in the Major

  4 - 10
• BI 500 Planning and Proposing Scientific Research

  2
• BI 589 Research in Biology (1-4 cr.) or other equivalent
• BI 599A Thesis in Biology

  1-4
• Electives:
• Students may choose the remainder of their coursework from the following list with the requirement that 3-4 credits be completed in BI, and 7-8 credits in one other prefix and 3-4 credits in a third prefix in courses of defined content (i.e. not Directed Studies).
• Choose from the following:

  22-28
• BI 402 Microbial Ecology

  3
• BI 404 Virology

  3
• BI 405 Immunology

  3
• BI 406 Advanced Cell Biology

  4
• BI 410 Ecology of the Great Lakes

  4
• BI 411 Limnology

  4
• BI 412 Biometrics

  4
• BI 413 Biochemistry of Development

  4
• BI 418 Molecular Biology

  4
• BI 419 Biology of Cancer

  4
• BI 420 Neuroscience

  4
• BI 423 Parasitology

  3
• BI 424 Entomology

  4
• BI 425 Endocrinology

  3
• BI 426 Human Histology

  4
• BI 427 Ecological Animal Physiology

  4
• BI 428 Behavioral Ecology

  4
• BI 430 Plant Anatomy

  4
• BI 431 Plant Physiology

  4
• BI 433 Boreal Flora

  2-3
• BI 434 Plant Ecology

  4
• BI 435 Boreal Ecosystems

  4
• BI 441 Fisheries Management

  3
• BI 442 Wildlife Management

  4
• BI 460 Ichthyology

  3
• BI 461 Herpetology

  4
• BI 462 Ornithology

  4
• BI 463 Mammalogy

  3
• BI 465 Aquatic Insect Ecology

  4
• BI 491 Seminar

  1
• BI 495 Special Topics in Biology

  1-4
• BI 502 Scientific laboratory Instruction

  2
• BI 510 Advanced Human Physiology

  4
• BI 511 Advanced Animal Physiology

  3
• BI 513 Advanced Ecology

  4
• BI 514 Population Genetics

  3
• BI 516 Bio Systems Analysis

  1
• BI 517 Population Ecology

  3
• BI 518 Gene Structure and Function

  2
• BI 519 Bioinformatics

  2
• BI 520 Systematics

  3
• BI 521 Advanced Exercise Physiology

  3
• BI 531 Advanced Seminar in Exercise Physiology

  3
• BI 590 Graduate Seminar in Biology

  1
• BI 595 Special Topics in Biology

  1-4
• BI 596 Special Topics in Biology

  1-4
• BI 598 Directed Study Research in Biology

  1-4
• CH 415 Inorganic Chemistry

  4
• CH 435 Gas and Liquid Chromatography

  2
• CH 436 Modern Spectroscopy

  3
• CH 437 Atomic Absorption Spectrometry

  1
• CH 440 Forensic Chemistry

  4
• CH 450 Biochemistry I

  4
• CH 452 Biochemistry II

  4
• CH 454 Biochemical Techniques

  4
• CH 456 Protein Structure and Function

  3
• CH 495 Special Topics in Chemistry

  1-4
• CS 410 Database Development for Scientists

  4
• GC 401 Biogeography

  4
• GC 425 Remote Sensing

  4
• GC 428 Spatial Analysis

  4
• GC 465 Hydrology

  4
• GC 475 Environmental Impact Assessment

  4
• GC 495 Special Topics

  1-4
• MA 412 Abstract Algebra II

  3
• MA 465 Complex Variables

  3
• MA 472 Applied Statistics

  3
• MA 478 Probability

  3
• MA 482 Foundations of Mathematics

  3
• MA 483 Introduction to Number Theory

  3
• MA 484 History of Mathematical Thought

  3
• MA 595 Special Topics in Mathematics

  1-4
• MA 598 Directed Studies in Mathematics

  1-4
• PH 410 Introductory Quantum Mechanics

  3
• PH 598 Directed Study

  1-4