The zoology curriculum introduces students to a broad spectrum of studies while allowing individual interests to be explored. Upper-division majors may focus their interests in a particular area by pursuing individual study or research with a faculty member. Required courses for the various options are listed on the back of this sheet. The Department of Zoology is located in Stevens Hall, which was dedicated in 1968 in honor of the late Dr. Orin A. Stevens, a renowned North Dakota State University naturalist. Stevens Hall houses a large lecture auditorium, classrooms, teaching and research laboratories and specialized facilities such as animal research rooms, an aquarium room, a reptile room and a vertebrate museum.
Most career opportunities require advanced training beyond the four-year baccalaureate degree.
Some specialize in resource management and are employed as fisheries and wildlife biologists, game managers and conservation officers. Others find jobs in museums, zoos and in national and state parks. The zoologist must have a sound background in physics, chemistry and mathematics. Students entering the zoology program are urged to take four units of mathematics and four units of science in high school. In general, most professional and graduate schools require a full year of organic chemistry, physics and zoology through comparative anatomy.