Required Courses
BIOS 101 General Zoology 3 cr
BIOS 102 General Zoology Lab 1 cr
BIOS 103 General Botany 3 cr
BIOS 104 General Botany Lab 1 cr
BIOS 192 Ecology Seminar 1 cr
BIOS 203 General Ecology 4 cr
BIOS 303 Human Physiology 4 cr
OR
BIOS 304 Plant Physiology 4 cr
BIOS 315 Introduction to Biometry 3 cr
BIOS 317 Organic Evolution 3 cr
BIOS 318 Ecological Topics 1-3 cr
BIOS 320 Physiological Ecology 3 cr
BIOS 337 Conservation of Natural
Resources 3 cr
BIOS 358 General Genetics 3 cr
BIOS 489 Field Ecology 3 cr
Select two of the following ecology courses:
BIOS 408 Plant Ecology 3 cr BIOS 416 Community Ecology 3 cr BIOS 452 Population Ecology 3 cr BIOS 459 Fish Ecology 3 cr BIOS 462 Freshwater Ecology 3 cr BIOS 476 Ecology of Water Pollution 3 cr
Select one of the following natural history and systematics courses (2-4 credits):
BIOS 309 Range Agrostology 2 cr BIOS 310 Invertebrate Zoology 4 cr BIOS 311 Dendrology 3 cr BIOS 312 Systematic Botany 4 cr BIOS 426 Herpetology 3 cr BIOS 427 Ichthyology 3 cr BIOS 431 General Entomology 3 cr BIOS 438 Ornithology 3 cr BIOS 441 Mammalogy 3 cr
Courses required outside the department:
CHEM 121 General Chemistry I 5 cr
CHEM 122 General Chemistry II 4 cr
CHEM 301 Organic Chemistry I 3 cr
CHEM 302 Organic Chemistry II 3 cr
CHEM 303 Organic Chemistry Lab I 1 cr
CHEM 304 Organic Chemistry Lab II 1 cr
GEOL 106 General Geology 3 cr
GEOL 107 General Geology Lab 1 cr
MATH 117 Algebra and Trigonometry 5 cr
MATH 120 Essentials of Calculus 4 cr
PHYS 211-212 General Physics 6 cr
SPCH 301 Business and Professional
Speaking 3 cr
Recommendations
It is recommended that additional credits be taken in BIOS 481-482, Independent Problems, or BIOS 493, Senior Thesis, in the area of ecology. ECON 201 and 202 are highly recommended (only 3 credits apply toward General Education Requirements, Goal 11). In addition, a student should take a minimum of 9 credits in a single area of concentration outside the Biological Sciences Department, e.g. business, computer science, political science.