Options in the Biology major require 15 or fewer additional credits (one term) beyond the basic Biology major, and most students can complete the additional Pre-Medicine/Biology option course work in four years. The Pre-Medicine option requires a 3.0 or higher cumulative GPA in major and option course work. Courses used to satisfy the Pre-Medicine option requirements also satisfy the Physiology, Writing Intensive Course, Biology and Society, Physics or Computational and Quantitative Applications, and Experiential Learning or Integrative Biology Elective requirements in the Biology major. Several courses may also be used to satisfy areas of the Baccalaureate Core.

Students may not pursue either the Pre-Medicine, Pre-Dentistry, Pre-Veterinary Medicine or Physiology and Behavior options within the Biology major—no dual combinations of these options are permitted.

Students interested in private practice should also consider taking BA 260 or BA 315.

For further information, see MyDegrees or the Integrative Biology website.

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
Core
BI 109	HEALTH PROFESSIONS: MEDICAL	1
PHAR 210	TERMINOLOGY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES	2
PHL 205	*ETHICS	4
or PHL 444/REL 444	*BIOMEDICAL ETHICS
PSY 201 & PSY 202	*GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY and *GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY	8
SOC 204	*INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY (required for pre-medical students)	3-4
or ECON 201	*INTRODUCTION TO MICROECONOMICS
PH 201 & PH 202 & PH 203	*GENERAL PHYSICS and *GENERAL PHYSICS and *GENERAL PHYSICS	15
Writing Intensive Course (WIC)
BI 319	^THEORY, PRACTICE AND DISCOURSE IN THE LIFE SCIENCES	3
or MB 385	^EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND EPIDEMICS
Medicine, Health and Society
Select one course from the following:		3-4
ANTH 352	*ANTHROPOLOGY, HEALTH, AND ENVIRONMENT
ANTH 383	*INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
BB 220	*CANCER: SOCIETY'S MALIGNANT SHADOW
BB 332	*MOLECULAR MEDICINE
H 210	*INTRODUCTION TO THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
H 225	*SOCIAL AND INDIVIDUAL HEALTH DETERMINANTS
H 312	*HIV/AIDS AND STIS IN MODERN SOCIETY
H 333	*GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH
HSTS 417	*HISTORY OF MEDICINE
MB 330	*DISEASE AND SOCIETY
Physiology
Select one of the following tracks:		14-15
Comparative Vertebrate Track
Z 422	COMPARATIVE/FUNCTIONAL VERTEBRATE ANATOMY
or Z 425	EMBRYOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT
Z 431	VERTEBRATE PHYSIOLOGY I
Z 432 & Z 442	VERTEBRATE PHYSIOLOGY II and VERTEBRATE PHYSIOLOGY LABORATORY
Human Track
BI 331 & BI 332 & BI 333	ADVANCED HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY and ADVANCED HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY and ADVANCED HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
BI 341 & BI 342 & BI 343	ADVANCED HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY LABORATORY and ADVANCED HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY LABORATORY and ADVANCED HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY LABORATORY
Experiential Learning or Biological Science/Psychology Electives
Select one of the following tracks:		3-5
Track I Experiential Learning Credits
Select any combination of three credits from the following or GS 410 Medical Preceptorship credits by approval:
BI 309	TEACHING PRACTICUM (by approval)
BI 401	RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP (by approval)
BI 409	ADVANCED TEACHING PRACTICUM (by approval)
BI 410	INTERNSHIP (by approval)
Track II Biological Science/Psychology Elective
Select one course from the following:
BB 460	ADVANCED CELL BIOLOGY
BI 451	FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY OF THE HUMAN MUSCULAR SYSTEM (by application only - limited summer enrollment)
BI 485	MONSTER BIOLOGY
BI 495	DISEASE ECOLOGY
MB 416	IMMUNOLOGY (MB 417 lab is optional)
MB 436	THE HUMAN MICROBIOME
MB 480	GENERAL PARASITOLOGY
NUTR 418	HUMAN NUTRITION SCIENCE
PSY 350	HUMAN LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT
PSY 381	ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY
PSY 433	PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
TOX 411	FUNDAMENTALS OF TOXICOLOGY
Z 371	VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY (Z 372 lab is optional)
Z 425	EMBRYOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT (if not used above)
Z 438	BEHAVIORAL NEUROBIOLOGY
or BB 360	INTRODUCTION TO NEUROSCIENCE
Total Credits		56-61

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Baccalaureate Core Course (BCC)

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Writing Intensive Course (WIC)