The requirements for a B.A. degree with a department major are similar to those of the B.S. degree except that the three hour biology elective required for the B.S. degree is replaced by eight hours of modern foreign language at level 200. Twelve hours of the general science core consisting of SCI210, SCI224, SCI381, and four hours from a list of approved courses in the sciences. Twenty-seven hours of specific professsional education courses. This minor can be added to the biology supporting area for the primary areas of chemistry , physics or mathematics for added strength and flexibility. A study of living organisms, their structure, function, and relationships to their non-living environment, to each other, and to man.
Special attention is given to cellular biology as it applies to both lower and higher forms of life.
Two hours lecture and two hours laboratory per week. I Principles of structure, function, and cellular organisms. Includes an introduction to the scientific method, characteristics of protoplasm, reproduction, heredity, nutrition, and a study of the major groups of plants and their relation to man. Three hours lecture and two hours laboratory per week. General Biology II A continuation of BSC101.