Biology

Students seeking a major in biology-through the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) must have completed 45 quarter hours of biological sciences coursework, 25 hours of which must be upper level and 15 hours of which must be taken at National-Louis University. The courses must include:

General Biology
Zoology
Botany
Genetics

Electives can be selected from the following list of currently available National-Louis University biology courses.

LAN200 Anatomy and Physiology I 5 QH
LAN205 Anatomy and Physiology 11 5 QH
LAN300 Ecology and Conservation 5 QH
LAN304 Human Physiology 5 QH
LAN305 Animal Behavior 5 QH
LAN366 Biostatistics 5 QH
LAN410 Fundamentals of Immunology 5 QH
LAN411 Microbiology 5 QH
LAN412 Medical Microbiology 5 QH
LAN499B General Biology Seminar 3-5 QH

Furthermore, biology majors must successfully complete the following physical science courses:

LAN250 Inorganic Chemistry I 5 QH
LAN251 Inorganic Chemistry 11 (qualitative analysis) 5 QH
LAN358 Organic Chemistry I 7 QH
LAN360 Biochemistry 1 5 QH
LAN351 Physics 5 QH

Biology majors are required to complete 25 quarter hours of physical science courses. These students can use physical science credits towards a minor or a second major in order to complete the degree requirements of the CAS.

Biology Teaching Major

For a degree in education with a biology teaching major, students need to fulfill all of the general education requirements for English, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, social sciences, art, and theatre arts. Furthermore, they must take 20 quarter hours of science coursework as prescribed below:

General education requirement in science for a biology teaching major:
General Biology 5QH (lower level)
Physical Science 5QH (lower level)
A Chemistry course 5QH (lower level)
A science elective* 5QH

Standard teaching concentration for a biology teaching major:
Required:
Zoology 5 QH (upper level)
Botany 5 QH (upper level)
Ecology and Conservation 5 QH (upper level)
A human biology course** 5 QH
Electives:
(The degree requires at least two more upper level biology courses)
Anatomy and Physiology I 5QH (lower level)
Anatomy and Physiology II 5QH (lower level)
Human Physiology 5QH (upper level)
Genetics 5QH (upper level)
Biostatistics 5QH (upper level)
Microbiology I 5QH (upper level)
Medical Microbiology 5QH (upper level)
Immunology 5QH (upper level)
Animal Behavior 5QH (upper level)

For biology teaching major, students must have successfully completed a minimum of 25 hours of upper level biology courses.

* We recommend that this elective be in a physical science, i.e., physics or chemistry.

** Students choosing to take Anatomy and Physiology I and/or Anatomy and Physiology II to fulfill the human biology requirement may not also take Human Physiology.

Biological Sciences Minor

A minor in biological sciences shall consist of 30 quarter hours of biological science courses.