Introduction

Program Delivery

• This is an on-campus program.

Declaring This Major

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General Requirements

To earn a degree, students must satisfy all requirements in each of the three areas below, in addition to their individual major requirements.

• CU Denver General Graduation Requirements
• CU Denver Core Curriculum
• College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Graduation Requirements
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Program Requirements

1. Students must complete a minimum of 36 BIOL credit hours.  
2. Students must complete a minimum of 15 credit hours in ancillary coursework. 
3. Students must complete a minimum of 18 upper division (3000- level and above) BIOL credit hours.
4. Students must earn a minimum grade of C- (1.7) in all courses that apply to the major and must achieve a minimum cumulative major GPA of 2.0. Courses taken using P+/P/F or S/U grading cannot apply to major requirements. Grades in courses that fulfill requirements for the major (including electives, required classes, and ancillary classes) are calculated in the major GPA.
5. Students must complete a minimum of 18 upper division (3000-level and above) BIOL credit hours with CU Denver faculty and at least 3 credits must be at 4000-level or higher.

Program Restrictions, Allowances and Recommendations

1. Courses more than ten years old will not count automatically, but can be evaluated individually for their current relevance to the degree program through a petition process with the Department of Integrative Biology Curriculum Committee. Approval for courses older than ten years is not guaranteed so students may be required to update their knowledge by taking additional courses when past courses are outdated.  
2. Undergraduate students may count up to six credit hours of independent study or internship (any combination of BIOL 3840 Independent Study, BIOL 3939 Internship, BIOL 4840 Independent Study, BIOL 4880 Directed Research) toward the upper-division Biology electives requirement in the major.

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Complete the following required biology courses:		16
BIOL 2010	Organisms to Ecosystems (Gen Bio)
or BIOL 2030	Honors Organisms to Ecosystems (Gen Bio)
BIOL 2011	Organisms to Ecosystems Lab (Gen Bio)
or BIOL 2031	Honors Organisms to Ecosystems Lab (Gen Bio)
BIOL 2020	Molecules to Cells (Gen Bio)
or BIOL 2040	Honors Molecules to Cells (Gen Bio)
BIOL 2021	Molecules to Cells Lab (Gen Bio)
or BIOL 2041	Honors Molecules to Cells Lab (Gen Bio)
BIOL 3650	General Microbiology
BIOL 3651	General Microbiology Lab
BIOL 3832	General Genetics
or BIOL 3124	Introduction to Molecular Biology
Complete the following required ancillary classes:		9
CHEM 2031	General Chemistry I
or CHEM 2032	Majors General Chemistry I
or CHEM 2081	Honors General Chemistry I
CHEM 2038	General Chemistry Laboratory I
or CHEM 2039	Majors General Chemistry I Laboratory
or CHEM 2088	Honors General Chemistry I Laboratory
CHEM 2061	General Chemistry II
or CHEM 2062	Majors General Chemistry II
or CHEM 2091	Honors General Chemistry II Lecture
CHEM 2068	General Chemistry Laboratory II
or CHEM 2069	Majors General Chemistry II Laboratory
or CHEM 2098	Honors General Chemistry II Laboratory
Choose one quantitative class from this list:		3-4
BIOL 3762	Biostatistics
MATH 1401	Calculus I
MATH 4830	Applied Statistics
Choose one writing intensive class from this list:		3
COMM 4550	Rhetorics of Medicine & Health
ENGL 3154	Technical Writing (also satisfies CLAS Communicative Skills requirement)
ENGL 4175	Writing in the Sciences (also satisfies CLAS Communicative Skills requirement)
ENGL 4180	Argumentation and Logic (also satisfies CLAS Humanities requirement)
ENGL 4280	Proposal and Grant Writing (also satisfies CLAS Humanities requirement)
Choose at least three classes from the following list (must include at least one BIOL 4000 level class taught by UCD faculty):		9
BIOL 3525	Parasitology
BIOL 3621	Introduction to Immunology
BIOL 4055	Virology
BIOL 4144	Medical Microbiology
BIOL 4410	Microbial Genomics
BIOL 4415	Applied Microbial Ecology
Choose at least 3 classes of other BIOL electives from the following list (not already taken anywhere above) to reach 36 credits in BIOL:		11
BIOL 3024	Introduction to Biotechnology
BIOL 3124	Introduction to Molecular Biology
BIOL 3134	Advanced Topics
BIOL 3137	Advanced Special Topics with Lab
BIOL 3411	Principles of Ecology
BIOL 3445	Introduction to Evolution
BIOL 3525	Parasitology
BIOL 3611	General Cell Biology
BIOL 3621	Introduction to Immunology
BIOL 3832	General Genetics
BIOL 3939	Internship (Project must have a microbiology component)
BIOL 3840	Independent Study (Project must have a microbiology component)
BIOL 4050	Advanced Biology Topics
BIOL 4053	Infectious Disease Ecology
BIOL 4055	Virology
BIOL 4064	Cell Biology of Disease
BIOL 4125	Molecular Biology Laboratory
BIOL 4225	Genomics and Bioinformatics
BIOL 4144	Medical Microbiology
BIOL 4410	Microbial Genomics
BIOL 4415	Applied Microbial Ecology
BIOL 4460	Environmental Toxicology
BIOL 4840	Independent Study (Project must have a microbiology component)
BIOL 4880	Directed Research (Project must have a microbiology component )
Total Hours		51-52

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