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Course Requirements (2012/13)

Students who entered the Plant Biology Honors or Specialization Program in the 2012-2013 Calendar year should follow the program presented below. If you have any questions about your program requirements, please see your advisor or Student Services, CW-312 BSB.

All students in Honors and Specialization programs in Biological Sciences take a common core of courses in their first year which includes Biology 107 and 108 (see Sidebar for description of the First Year Core, also see individual programs and recommendations) . In addition, all Honors and Specialization students take Biology 207 and 208 in Year 2.

This page contains a summary of information contained in the calendar. In case of discrepancy, the calendar is the final authority.

Notes:

1. Students in Honors Biological Sciences must successfully complete BIOL 499 and reduce approved options by *6.
2. Honors students are required to take one of the following discussion courses and reduce approved options by *3:  BOT 403, BOT 445, BOT 506, BOT 511, BOT 545 or BIOL 495 (if appropriate topic).
3. Credit in Science 100 will be considered equivalent to BIOL 107, 108, CHEM 101, 102, 164, MATH 114, *6 Science options and *3 Approved options.

Year 2

BIOCH 200 Introductory Biochemistry
BIOL 201 Eukaryotic Cellular Biology
BIOL 207 Molecular Genetics and Heredity
BIOL 208 Principles of Ecology
BIOL 321 Mechanisms of Evolution
BOT 205 Fundamentals of Plant Biology
BOT 210 Biology of Land Plants
CHEM 102 Introductory University Chemistry II

*3 Arts option
*3 approved option

Years 3 and 4

BOT 308 Plant Anatomy
BOT 321 Flowering Plants
BOT 332 Plant Ecology
BOT 340 Whole Plant Physiology
MICRB 265 General Microbiology

*3 from:

GENET 270 Foundations of Molecular Genetics
GENET 275 The Genetics of Higher Organisms
GENET 364 Plant Genetics
GENET 390 Gene Manipulation

*9 Arts options
*33 from the list below

Recommended options include, but are not restricted to the following:

BIOL 330 Introduction to Biological Data
BIOL 333 Wetland Ecology and Management
BIOL 335 Principles of Systematics
BIOL 340 Global Biogeochemistry
BIOL 364 Freshwater Ecology
BIOL 367 Conservation Biology
BIOL 400 Industrial Internship Practicum
BIOL 430 Experimental Biology
BIOL 433 Plant-Animal Interactions
BIOL 470 Landscape Ecology
BIOL 490 Individual Study
BIOL 495 Special Topics in Biology
BIOL 498 Research Project
BIOL 499 Research Project
BOT 303 Plant Development
BOT 306 Biology of the Fungi
BOT 314 Biology of Bryophytes
BOT 322 Field Botany
BOT 330 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function of Algae
BOT 340 Whole Plant Physiology
BOT 350 Plant Biochemistry
BOT 380 Drug Plants
BOT 382 Plant Biotechnology
BOT 403 Plant Molecular Development
BOT 411 Paleobotany
BOT 445 Plant Molecular Physiology
BOT 464 Plant Functional Genomics
BOT 506 Advanced Mycology
BOT 511 Advanced Paleobotany
BOT 545 Advanced Molecular Plant Physiology
FOR 372 Forestry and the Environment
GENET 364 Plant Genetics
PL SC 335 Plant Propagation
PL SC 355 Cereal, Oilseed, and Pulse Crops
PL SC 380 Principles of Plant Pathology
PL SC 385 Forest Pathology
PL SC 465 Principles of Plant Breeding
REN R 421 Advanced Tree Physiology
REN R 468 Management and Conservation of Genetic Resources