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Upper Division Biology Requirements:

Required Courses

Credits

Prerequisites

Ecology PCB 3043

3

BSC 1010 + BSC 1011

Genetics PCB 3063

3

BSC 1010

Cell Biology PCB 4023

3

BSC 1010, CHM 1046

Evolution PCB 4674

3

PCB 3063 + PCB 3043

Senior Seminar BSC 4931

1

Senior Standing (at least 90 credits)

Total

13

 

Electives-Distribution Requirement - One lecture course in each of the following areas

A. Ecology

3

Check Catalog for Prerequisites

B. Organismal diversity

3

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C. Physiology/biochemistry

3

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D. Structure/development

3

Check Catalog for Prerequisites

Total

12

 

Biology Electives (1)  - 2 lecture courses

6

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Laboratory Requirement (2) - 4 labs

4

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Credit hours of courses outside the major required within

the last 60 hours of enrollment 
9

 

Total credit hours required for graduation               

120

 

Number of upper division credit hours required

for graduation (minimum)

48

 

(1) Two upper division lecture courses (3000 - level and above) to be chosen in consultation with a faculty advisor. 

The following courses are not allowed as Biology Electives: Student Research Labs (BSC 3915, 4914, and 6913);

Workshop Biology Labs (BSC 5928, PCB 5238, BSC 6926 etc); Cooperative Education credits (BSC 3949 and 4949);

Biology of Aging (PCB 3241); and courses for non-science majors (BOT 1010,PCB 2061, PCB 2099, MCB 2000, BSC 2023, 

EVR 3013, OCB 2003, OCE 3014)

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(2) Laboratory requirement is met with any four upper division Biology labs offered with the required courses, courses

that meet the distribution or Biology elective requirement.

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general remarks

1. Total number of credit hours needed for graduation

120

2. Number of upper division credit hours needed

48

3. Upper division credit hours from the 10 biology courses, 4 labs and Senior Seminar

35

4. Credit hours needed outside major in last 60 hours of enrollment

9
Take these 9 credit hours from upper division courses to help you reach the 48 hours needed for graduation:
Ex. 35 + 9 = 44 upper division credit hours
5. Foreign Language Requirements. You must satisfy the following two requirements:

1) Flent/Flex FIU requirement - 2 years of high school foreign language satisfy Flent/Flex

2) Arts & Sciences requirement - With a grade of C or better, the student may meet the requirement by completing:

a) the second semester of a two semester sequence of a basic language course (Ex. Spanish II)

b) any second or third year foreign language course...or:

The Arts and Sciences foreign language requirement may also be met by acceptable scores in:

a) the AP exam ( with a minimum score of 4)

b) the CLEP exam ( with a minimum score of 66 for Spanish, 62 for French) - Testing office PC 248

c) the SAT II exam ( with a minimum score of 699)

d) any other approved tests

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electives-Distribution Requirement

A. ECOLOGY  

BOT 5605 Plant Ecology
BSC 3364 Research in Tropical Ecosystems
BSC 4304 Environments of the Past
BSC 4363 Biodiversity of the Caribbean Basin
BSC 4934 Topics in Biology:Coastal Marine Conservation
MCB 4603 Microbial Ecology
MCB 4653 Food Microbiology
OCB 3043 Marine Biology and Oceanography
PCB 3373 Tropical Ecology
PCB 4232 Biology of AIDS
PCB 4301 Freshwater Ecology
PCB 4673 Evolutionary Ecology
PCB 5685 Population Genetics
ZOO 4513 Animal Behavior

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B. ORGANISMAL DIVERSITY

    

BOT  3153 Local Flora
BOT 3663 Tropical Botany
BOT 3810 Economic Botany
BOT 4684 Taxonomy of Tropical Plants
ENY 4060 Advanced Entomology
MCB 3020 General Microbiology
PCB 5616 Applied Phylogenetics
PCB 5665 Human Genetics
ZOO 3021 Comparative Zoology
ZOO 3203C Invertebrate Zoology
ZOO 4234 General Parasitology
ZOO 4462C Herpetology
ZOO 4484 Primate Biology
ZOO 4114 Principles of Paleobiology

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C. PHYSIOLOGY/BIOCHEMISTRY 

    

BCH 3033 General Biochemistry
BOT 4503 Plant Physiology
MCB 4203 Microbial Pathogenicity
MCB 4404 Microbial Physiology
MCB 4503 Virology
PCB 3702 Intermediate Human Physiology
PCB 3703 Human Physiology I
PCB 3704 Human Physiology II
PCB 4233 Immunology
PCB 4443 Functional Genomics and Proteomics
PCB 4663 General Human Genetics
PCB 4724 Comparative Physiology
PCB 4805 Endocrinology

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D. STRUCTURE/DEVELOPMENT  

    

BOT 3353 Morphology of Vascular Plants
PCB 4253 Developmental Biology
ZOO 3327 Human Evolutionary Morphology
ZOO 3378C Forensic Osteology
ZOO 3731 Human Anatomy
ZOO 4377C Advanced Vertebrate Morphology
ZOO 4733 Survey of Regional Anatomy
ZOO 4743C Neuroscience

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