PHYS 216 – General Physics II
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PHYS-215. (Required, Previous). | Take PHYS-216L. (Required, Concurrent). Credit Hours: Min: 4; Max: Description: Algebra-based introduction to electricity, magnetism, and optics. Topics include electrical forces, electric fields, direct and alternating current circuits, magnetic forces, magnetic fields, electromagnetic induction, reflection, refraction, diffraction, interference, mirrors, and lenses. Examples from medicine and biology will be included […]
PHYS 216L – General Physics II Laboratory
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PHYS-216. (Required, Concurrent). Credit Hours: Min: ; Max: Description:
PHYS 201 – Technical Physics II
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take MATH-201. (Required, Previous or concurrent). | Take PHYS-201L. (Required, Concurrent). Credit Hours: Min: 4; Max: Description: Calculus-based introduction to classical mechanics and dynamics. Topics include vectors and vector notation; Newton’s Three Laws of Motion; force; motion in one, two, and three dimensions; linear momentum; torque; rotational motion; angular momentum; work-energy; kinetic and potential […]
BIOL 491 – Research for the Secondary Educator
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take BIOL-105 BIOL-115L BIOL-107 BIOL-106 or BIOL-108. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 1; Max: Description: Students devise and carry out an independent research project that can be translated for use in a high school science classroom. The research will address a scientific question and will be formatted as a citizen science project, with open-ended […]
BIOL 440 – Ecotoxicology
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take BIOL-105 BIOL-115L BIOL-107 BIOL-106 BIOL-108 CHEM-201 CHEM-203. (Required, Previous). | Take BIOL-440L. (Required, Concurrent). Credit Hours: Min: 4; Max: Description: This course discusses environmental contamination, including impacts to health and survival of individual organisms as well as effects on populations and ecosystems. Topics include a survey of major environmental contaminants, physiological effects of […]
BIOL 442 – Wildlife Biology
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take BIOL-202 CHEM-112 CHEM-112L. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: This course will focus on issues associated with wildlife biology. Topics will include: history of wildlife management, natural wildlife populations and communities, invasive species, wildlife and habitat management, wildlife diseases, agriculture and wildlife, and urban wildlife.
BIOL 413 – Biostatistics and Research Methods
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take BIOL-105 BIOL-115L BIOL-107 BIOL-106 BIOL-108 MATH-132. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Experimental design and analysis for the biological sciences. Covers considerations in designing experiments as well as appropriate statistical analysis for each design. Designs and analysis from a variety of biological fields will be covered.
BIOL 415 – Radiation Biology
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PHYS-316 BIOL-105 BIOL-115L BIOL-107 BIOL-106 or BIOL-108. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Topics include the fundamental physical, chemical, and biological mechanisms that lead to radiation-induced biological damage. The course will begin with interactions and responses at a molecular level and progress towards cellular and systemic responses to the damage. Methods […]
BIOL 409 – Evolutionary Biology
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take BIOL-105 BIOL-115L BIOL-107 BIOL-106 BIOL-108 CHEM-201. (Required, Previous). | Take BIOL-409L. (Required, Concurrent). Credit Hours: Min: 4; Max: Description: Topics include the theory of natural selection, mechanisms of evolutionary change, the fossil record, biogeography, molecular evolution, speciation, phylogeny reconstruction and evolutionary rates.
BIOL 412 – Animal Behavior
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take BIOL-105 BIOL-115L BIOL-107 BIOL-106 or BIOL-108. (Required, Previous). | Take BIOL-412L. (Required, Concurrent). Credit Hours: Min: 4; Max: Description: Topics within ecology and evolution combine as students examine the adaptive significance of behavior. Key concepts include altruism and selfishness, evolutionary stable strategies and game theory, coevolution in relation to predation and predator avoidance, […]
BIOL 410 – Animal Physiology
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take BIOL-106 CHEM-102. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 4; Max: Description: The study of the function of the major organ systems in different classes of vertebrate animals. The relationship between the physiology and ecology of species will also be investigated.
BIOL 407 – Immunology
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take BIOL-105 BIOL-115L BIOL-107 BIOL-106 BIOL-108 CHEM-201. (Required, Previous). | Take BIOL-407L. (Required, Concurrent). Credit Hours: Min: 4; Max: Description: Cellular and molecular basis of the immune response; antibody structure and function; antigen-antibody interactions, applications; immunogenetics; hypersensitivity.