Biology Major
Biology Option
Bachelor of Science
NSS BS 5104
- Minimum General Studies = 45
+ General Studies coursework required by major = 46
- BS Science-related course requirements = 8 including:
- Major Option = 36
- Minor or 2nd Major, minimum = 24
Minors are 24 hours; 18 must be unduplicated. Electing a second major may add as many as
18 required hours to the program. Should 6 hours of the minor also meet other
requirements, the unrestricted electives will be greater.
- Minimum total hours required coursework = 114
- Unrestricted electives in 125 hour program = 11
- Minimum total hours required for BS in Biology = 125
All UNK degrees require a minimum of 125 hours. Forty (40) of the hours required for
all UNK degrees must be upper division hours, which are courses numbered 300 or above
taken at a 4-year college or university.
A minimum 2.5 GPA is required in all courses counting toward this major.
- Biology Option Core Requirements (19 hours required)
- Take all of the following:
- Biology Option Required Electives (12 hours required)
- Take ONE of the following Statistics courses:
- Take 3 hours of Field electives:
- BIOL 330, Wildlife Conservation - 3 hours
- BIOL 405, Range and Wildlife Management - 3 hours
- BIOL 406, Plant Ecology - 3 hours
- BIOL 418, Plant Taxonomy - 3 hours
- BIOL 433, Invertebrate Zoology - 3 hours
- BIOL 435, Herpetology - 3 hours
- BIOL 462, Animal Behavior - 3 hours
- BIOL 470, Insect Biology - 3 hours
- BIOL 472, Fresh Water Biology - 4 hours
- BIOL 473, Ornithology - 3 hours
- BIOL 474, Mammalogy - 3 hours
- Take 6 hours of Laboratory electives:
- BIOL 211GS, Human Microbiology - 4 hours
- BIOL 215GS, Human Physiology - 4 hours
- BIOL 225, Anatomy and Physiology - 4 hours
- BIOL 226, Anatomy and Physiology - 4 hours (Prereq: BIOL 225 or permission of instructor)
- BIOL 400, Microbiology - 4 hours
- BIOL 401, Principles of Immunology - 4 hours (Prereq: BIOL 211GS or BIOL 400; BIOL 309 or CHEM 351 OR permission of instructor)
- BIOL 403, Plant Physiology - 3 hours
- BIOL 404, Developmental Biology - 3 hours
- BIOL 416, Plant Diversity and Evolution - 3 hours
- BIOL 440, Infectious Diseases - 4 hours (Prereq: BIOL 211GS or BIOL 400 or permission)
- BIOL 452, Techniques in Molecular Biology - 3 hours
- BIOL 465, Physiology - 3 hours
- BIOL 468, Parasitology - 3 hours
- Biology Option Supporting Course Requirements (5 hours required)
- Take ONE of the following options:
- Take 2 courses:
- CHEM 250, Elementary Organic Chemistry - 4 hours
- CHEM 250L, Elementary Organic Chemistry Laboratory - 1 hour
- OR take 4 courses:
- CHEM 360, Organic Chemistry - 4 hours
- CHEM 360L, Organic Chemistry Laboratory - 1 hour
- CHEM 361, Organic Chemistry - 4 hours
- CHEM 361L, Organic Chemistry Laboratory - 1 hour
