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Biology B.A.

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Biology - 4 year plan

Year 1: Fall Semester

Course	Title	Credits	MCC
BIOL 1111	Fundamentals of Genetics, Evolution, and Development	3	SCI
CHEM 1101	General Chemistry I	5	SCIL
IS 1101	Morris 1101	1	CP
Morris Core	Intellectual Community	2	IC
ENGL 1601	Writing for the Liberal Arts	4	WLA
	Term credits	15

Year 1: Spring Semester

Course	Title	Credits	MCC
BIOL 2101	Evolution of Biodiversity	4	SCIL
CHEM 1102	General Chemistry II	5	SCIL
Morris Core or Elective		4	HIST
Morris Core or Elective		4	FA
	Term credits	17

Year 2: Fall Semester

Course	Title	Credits	MCC
BIOL 2111	Cell Biology	4	SCIL
CHEM 2301	Organic Chemistry I	4	SCI
CHEM 2311	Organic Chemistry Lab I	1
STAT 2601	Statistical Methods	4	MSR
	Term credits	13

Year 2: Spring Semester

Course	Title	Credits	MCC
BIOL 3121	Molecular Biology	4	SCIL
Morris Core or Elective		2
Morris Core or Elective		2
BIOL 3700	Biological Communication I	1
MATH 1021	Survey of Calculus	4	MSR
	Term credits	13

Year 3: Fall Semester

Course	Title	Credits	MCC
BIOL 3131	Ecology	4	SE
Morris Core or Elective		4	GP
BIOL 3701W	Biological Communication II	1
Morris Core	Language	4
	Term credits	13

Year 3: Spring Semester

Course	Title	Credits	MCC
BIOL 4121	Herpetology	4
Morris Core or Elective		4	SS
BIOL 4161	Evolution	4
BIOL 4312	Genetics	4
Morris Core	Language	4	WL
	Term credits	20

Year 4: Fall Semester

Course	Title	Credits	MCC
BIOL 4901	Senior Seminar	1
BIOL 4151	Entomology	4
Morris Core or Elective		4	HUM
Morris Core or Elective		4	HDE
	Term credits	13

Year 4: Spring Semester

Course	Title	Credits	MCC
Morris Core or Elective		4	ARTP
Morris Core or Elective		4	E/CR
STAT 4601	Biostatistics	4
Elective		4
	Term credits	16

Biology 3 Year

Year 1: Fall Semester

Course	Title	Credits	GER
IS 1101	Morris 1101	1	CP
ARTH 1801	Art + History, UMM + Community (Intellectual Community)	2	IC
BIOL 1111	Fundamentals of Genetics, Evolution and Development	3	SCI
CHEM 1101	General Chemistry I	5	SCIL
MATH 1021	Survey of Calculus	4	MSR
	Term credits	15

Year 1: Spring Semester

Course	Title	Credits	GER
ENGL 1601	Writing for the Liberal Arts	4	WLA
BIOL 2101	Evolution of Biodiversity	4	SCIL
CHEM 1102	General Chemistry II	5	SCIL
STAT 1601	Introduction to Statistics	4
ARTH 1101	Interpreting the Visual World: An Introduction to Art History	2	HDE
	Term credits	19

Year 1: Summer Semester

Course	Title	Credits	GER
SPAN 1001	Beginning Spanish I	4
SPAN 1002	Beginning Spanish II	4	WL
	Term credits	8

Year 2: Fall Semester

Course	Title	Credits	GER
BIOL 2111	Cell Biology	4
CHEM 2301	Organic Chemistry I	4
CHEM 2311	Organic Chemistry Lab	1
ENST 1101	Environmental Problems and Policy	4	SE
POL 1401	World Politics	4	GP
	Term credits	17

Year 2: Spring Semester

Course	Title	Credits	GER
BIOL 3121	Molecular Biology	4
BIOL 3700	Biological Communication I	1
BIOL 4111	Microbiology	4
PHIL 2113	International and Biomedical Ethics	4	ECR
HIST 2132W	History of Fairy Tales and Folklore in Europe	4	HIST, WE
	Term credits	17

Year 2: Summer Semester

Course	Title	Credits	GER
Internship, undergraduate research, or summer session electives (Morris Core Experience)		8
	Term credits	8

Year 3: Fall Semester

Course	Title	Credits	GER
BIOL 3131	Ecology	4
BIOL 3701W	BioComm II	1	WE
SOC 1101	Introduction to Sociology	4	SS
BIOL 4231	Immunology	4
CMR 2411	Health Communication	4	HUM
	Term credits	17

Year 3: Spring Semester

Course	Title	Credits	GER
BIOL 4312	Genetics	4
BIOL 4302	Plant Physiology	4
BIOL 4901	Senior Seminar (Capstone)	1
ARTS 1008	Visual Studies for Non-Majors: Ceramics	4	ARTP
POL 2234	Race, Class and Power: Social Movements in U.S. Politics	2	HDE
	Term credits	15

Year 3: Summer Semester

Course	Title	Credits	GER
May/Summer session abroad		4
	Term credits	4