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Enrollment & Elective Info for Fall 2023

We want to help you succesfully select and enroll in appropriate classes. The first step to make sure you chat with a Biology Faculty Advisor each semester as well as your Academic Advisor.

Additionally, we've made videos in fall 2020 with detailed information on understanding the Biology worksheet and ARR, as well as how to search the schedule of classes for all offered electives and see what is still open - while from 2020, the navigation information still is helpful.

This is a draft list of Biology electives undergraduates can take for fall 2023.
Please note that you might not always see the 500-level and up classes when enrolling unless you select postbaccalaureate in the Peoplesoft schedule settings.

Classes listed in the schedule at the undergraduate level
(subject to change)
Course  # Description Component Units Concentration area, course type (Preq or pre/coreqs beyond Biol 210/211, with grade of C or better).  All will fit into general upper-divison science electives.
BIOL 365* Computing Skills for Biologists LEC 3 Any concentration*, Lecture (BIOL 215)
BIOL 367 Biology of Microorganisms LEC/LAB 5 Molec/Cell, Lecture and Lab Combined
BIOL 390A Terrestrial Plant Ecology LEC 3 Ecology, Lecture
BIOL 400A Vertebrate Biology LEC 3 Ecology, Lecture (BIOl 212)
BIOL 401 Comp. Vertebrate Anatomy LEC/LAB/DISC 5 Physiology or Ecology, Lecture and Lab requirement (BIOL 212)
BIOL 422 Marine Communities LEC 3 Ecology, Lecture (BIOL 354)
BIOL 477A Immunology LEC 3 Molec/Cell, Lecture (BIOL 351 or BIOT 355)
BIOL 480 Bioinformatics LEC/LAB/DISC 5 Molec/Cell, Lecture and Lab (BIOL 351 or BIOL 352 or BIOT 355)
*Only one course of the following three courses can be used to fulfill a concentration elective: Biol 365 (any) or Biol 563 (phys) or Biol 567 (any)
Classes listed in the schedule at the postbac level but undergrads can enroll
(subject to change - you may need to change your search settings to see these)
Course # Description Component Units Counts as what concentration? (Preq or pre/coreqs beyond Biol 210/211, with grade of C or better). All will fit into general upper-divison science electives.
BIOL 504 Virology LEC 3 Molec Cell, Lecture (Biol 351 or BIOT 355)
BIOL 515 Medical Physiology LEC 3 Physiology, Lecture (BIOL 353)
BIOL 533 GIS and Landscape Ecology LEC/LAB 4 Ecology concentration, Lecture and Lab (Biol 354)
BIOL 563* Seminar in Physiology LEC 3 Physiology*, Lecture (BIOL 353)
BIOL 567* Current Trends in Biol Research SEM 3 Any*, Lecture (Any two of BIOL 351, 352, 353, or 354)
BIOL 575 Salt Water Balance LEC 3 Physiology, Lecture (BIOL 353)
BIOL 600 Scientific Communication LEC 3 Graduate Students Only
BIOL 690 Adv. Terrestrial Plant Ecology LEC 3 Graduate Students Only
*Only one course of the following three courses can be used to fulfill a concentration elective: Biol 365 (any) or Biol 563 (phys) or Biol 567 (any)