Biology with Secondary Certification, B.S.

Credit Requirements*

• General Education: 47 credits
• Major Requirements: 80-83 credits
• Free Electives: 0 credits
• Total Credits to Graduate: 127-130 credits

* All undergraduate degree programs require a minimum of 120 credits.  Some courses meet multiple requirements, but are only counted once toward the 120 credit total required to graduate.

Biology Core Courses (21 crs.)

Students must earn a “C” or higher in BIOL 161  and BIOL 162  before upper-level biology electives may be taken.

• BIOL 162 - Principles of Biology: Organismal Diversity Credits: 4
• BIOL 208 - Field Biology Credits: 3
• BIOL 242 - Ecology Credits: 3
• BIOL 260 - Genetics Credits: 4
• BIOL 385 - Cell Biology Credits: 3
• BIOL 430 - Principles of Evolution Credits: 3
• BIOL 499 - Capstone Seminar in Biology Credits: 1

Physiology Elective (4 crs.)

• BIOL 350 - Human Physiology Credits: 4

• OR

• BIOL 351 - Animal Physiology Credits: 4

Additional Biology Electives (9 crs.)

Electives should be selected with advisement. Biology credits should total at least 38.

Please note only 3 credits of research or internship may count as biology electives. Credits in excess of that number count as free electives. (BIOL 100 , 145  150  161  237  238  may not be taken as electives).

Allied Fields (13-16 crs.)

(Not required but strongly recommended)

• PHYS 122 - Introductory Physics II - Lecture Credits: 3
• PHYS 125 - Physics IIa Laboratory Credits: 1
• CHEM 227 - Introduction to Biochemistry Credits: 4

Professional Education Requirements (33 crs.)

• TEED 207 - Organizational and Psychological Foundations in Secondary Education Credits: 3
• EDFN 440 - Teaching of Science in Secondary Schools Credits: 3
• EDFN 441 - Curriculum and Evaluation in the Secondary Science Classroom Credits: 3
• SPEE 273 - Introduction to Exceptionalities: Understanding Diverse Learners Credits: 3
• SPEE 423 - Effective Instructional Strategies for Students with Exceptionalities Credits: 3
• SPEE 483 - Assessing Children with Exceptionalities for Curricular Decision-Making Credits: 3
• READ 413 - Teaching Reading to English Language Learners Credits: 3
• EDFN 495 - Student Teaching Credits: 6-15

• (Biology Secondary Certification Students will take 12 crs. of EDFN 495 )

General Education

General Education Requirements

• General Education Program (45 crs.)  

General Education Requirements Specific for this Major:

• Quantitative (Q): MATH 211  
• Natural World (N): BIOL 161   grade of C or better required
• Natural World (N):PHYS 121   or PHYS 205  
• Natural World (N): CHEM 121  

Advising Notes:

1. Students should begin their math sequence in their 1st year.
2. Semester I: BIOL 161, CHEM 121, CHEM 125
3. Semester II: BIOL 162, CHEM 122, CHEM 126
4. Physics is normally taken in the junior year.
5. Students lacking strong chemistry/math backgrounds should consider taking CHEM 105 before CHEM 121.