Program Overview

A major requires 50 semester hours in biology including:

• BIO 104 Biological Foundations
• BIO 235 Intro to Biotechnology Workshop
• BIO 253 Introductory Microbiology
• BIO 256 Tissue Culture Techniques
• BIO 330 Cell Biology
• BIO 341 Genetics
• BIO 401 Biostatistics
• BIO 454 Virology
• BIO 455 Immunology
• BIO 471 Biotechnology Internship
• BIO 475 Seminar

Additional biology credits to be taken from upper level biology courses. Students must also fulfill the following biology, chemistry, physics, and math requirements:

• Orientation (first semester students and transfers or students new to college)
• Biomedical Terminology (all allied health 3+1 programs and first-year students with verbal SAT's below 480
• Biomedical Topics (freshmen)

These Biology 300 courses listed above do not count toward the major:

• General Chemistry & Qualitative Analysis
• Organic Chemistry
• Quantitative Analysis
• Biochemistry
• General College Physics I and II
• Precalculus Mathematics I and II