Spring 2007 – Area Courses and Additional Approved Courses for the IB Major

      Area Courses
         * = course with field or laboratory component

 Course

Credit (hours)

No.

Title

Area I:   Organismal and Evolutionary Biology

IB 301

Evolutionary Biology

3

IB 335

Systematics of Plants*

4

IB 406

Evolution of Adaptive Systems

3

IB 461

Ornithology*

5

MCB 300

Microbiology

3

Area II:   Behavior, Ecology, and the Environment

IB 429

Animal Behavior

3

IB 432

Genes and Behavior

3

IB 440

Plants and Global Change

3

IB 451

Conservation Biology*

4

IB 484

Biol Control of Insect Pests

3

IB 485

Environmental Toxicology

3-4

Area III:   Integrative Anatomy, Physiology, and Molecular Biology

IB 420

Plant Physiology

3

IB 423

Plant Anatomy*

4

MCB 334

Functional Human Anatomy*

5

MCB 402

Sys & Integrative Physiology

3

       Additional Approved Courses

Course

Credit (hours)

No.

Title

IB 447

Field Ecology*

1

MCB 250°

Molecular Genetics

3

MCB 252°

Cells, Tissues and Development

3

MCB 354

Biochem & Phys Basis of Life

3

MCB 450

Introductory Biochemistry

3

Courses not counting as advanced IB hours:  The following courses are not administered by SIB and therefore will not fulfill the advanced IB course requirement: 331, 363, 450, 487, & 492. 

°NOTE: MCB 250 and MCB 252 count toward the advanced hours required for the IB major but do not count towards the 21 advanced hours required by LAS. 

Modified on 09/27/06