Courses for Biology Majors

• General Biology Laboratory (BIL 151) - In this laboratory course, students engage in critical thinking, hypothesis testing, and experimental design and execution in such areas as cell structure, metabolism, genetics, and homeostasis.
  Corequisite: BIL 150 (General Biology for science majors).

• Evolution and Biodiversity (BIL 160) - Evolutionary theory, systematics, ecology, and behavior.
  Corequisite: BIL 161

• Evolution and Biodiversity Laboratory (BIL 161) - Hypothesis testing, experimental design and interactive exercises in population genetics, evolutionary processes, animal and plant structure, function, and behavior.
  Corequisite: BIL 160

• General Botany (BIL 226) - The systematics, anatomy and physiology of Viridaeplantae.
  Prerequisite: BIL 150/151 and 160/161

• Genetics (BIL 250) - One of the four upper division core courses for biology majors, this course provides a higher-level study of molecular, Mendelian, and evolutionary genetics.
  Prerequisite: BIL 150/151 and 160/161.

• General Physiology (BIL 265) - Another of the four upper division core courses required of biology majors, this course provides a comparative approach to the structure and function of organ systems across animal species. Team taught.
  Prerequisite: BIL 150/151 and 160/161. Strong understanding of evolutionary mechanisms and theory is required.

• Seminar: Humans, Evolution and Religion (BIL 375) - In the first iteration of this course (Spring 2010), Students read The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, The Dawkins Delusion? by McGrath and McGrath, and Darwin's Cathedral by David Sloane Wilson. Students paired up to present overview of the readings and took turns leading a discussion to dispassionately analyze the relatively new science of why our species, no matter what culture, is religious, and whether the congenital reasons for this common trait are adaptive, maladaptive, or neutral.
  Prerequisite: BIL 150/151 and 160/161. Strong understanding of evolutionary mechanisms and theory is required.

• Seminar: Biology and Gender (BIL 375) - In this seminar course, students exercise their critical thinking skills by analyzing recent research in the evolution and biological determination of gender and sexual preference and behavior in that friskiest of primates,Homo sapiens.
  Prerequisite: one year of biology for science majors with laboratory

Courses for Non-science Majors

• BIL 104, Genetics and Society - Basic biochemistry, cell structure and function, elementary molecular, Mendelian and evolutionary Genetics, and biotechnology.

• BIL 105 - Plant structure and function, systematics, evolution and ecology for the non-science major. Economic importance of plants to human society.

• Elementary Zoology (BIL 106) - Survey of the major taxa of Kingdom Animalia includes their systematics, ecology, and behavior. Evolutionary theory provides the central framework for all topics.