Current Courses Offered
Syllabi are available from the links below.
The course catalog clearly identifies the different options, as well as courses required of both majors and non-majors. Go onto your Homer account (through the registrar's office) to check what requirements you have satisfied.
Biology (7-12) Majors
- Pedagogy and Practice for the Science Teacher (EDUC 31000 Fall)
- Special Methods of Teaching Science (EDUC 31010 Fall)
- Professional Semester in Education (EDUC 49810 Spring)
Biology / Biochemistry Majors
First-year/General Biology (always offered)
- Principles of Biology I (BIOL-12100 Fall)
- Principles of Biology II (BIOL-12200 Spring)
Courses related to research (always available by permission of instructor):
- Independent Study (BIOL-20000, 300, 400, and 402)
- Literature in Biology (BIOL-30100)
- Junior Research Projects (BIOL-30200 )
- Research in Biology (BIOL-40000; BIOL-40200
- Honors Research in Biology (BIOL-40100/40200)
- Biology Seminar (BIOL-41100, 41200)
- Independent Study in Biology (BIOL-60000)
- Independent Research in Biology (BIOL-60200)
Electives
- BIOC 21100 Essentials of Biochemistry (Fall 2009) PDF
- BIOC 35300 Biochemistry I (Fall 2011)
- BIOC 35400 Biochemistry II (Spring 2012)
- BIOL 20300 Invertebrate Zoology (Fall 2007)
- BIOL 20400 Special Topics: Conservation Biology (Spring 2009)
- BIOL 20400 Special Topics: Rainforests, Reefs and Ruins (fall 2009)
- BIOL 21210 Costa Rica: Ecological Restoration and Sustainable Development (Spring)
- BIOL 21400 Animal Physiology (Fall 2011)
- BIOL 22030 Honors Intermediate Seminar: Alternative Futures (Spring 2009) (PDF)
- BIOL 22500 The Power of Plants: Roles of Plants in Agriculture and Medicine (Fall 2010)
- BIOL 22700 Genetics (Spring 2012)
- BIOL 27100 General Ecology (Fall 2011)
- BIOL 27800 Environmental Health and Medicine (Spring 2010)
- BIOL 28400 Field Ornithology (Fall 2010)
- BIOL 30400 Special Topics: Invasive Species (Spring 2011)
- BIOL 30800 Animal Behavior (Spring 2012)
- BIOL 31500Neurobiology (Spring 2011)
- BIOL 32400 Wonderful Life: Genes, Evolution, and Biodiversity (Fall 2011)
- BIOL 34500 Developmental Biology (Spring 2008)
- BIOL 35400 Cell Biology (Spring 2012)
- BIOL 37100 Natural Resource Ecology (Spring)
- BIOL 37800 Environmental Toxicology (Spring 2011) (PDF)
- BIOL 38000 Tropical Ecology (Spring)
- BIOL 40400 Selected Topics: Immunology (Fall)
- BIOL 40500 & 50500 Parasites and Vectors of Disease (Fall 2010)
- BIOL 45200 Microbiology (Spring 2012)
- BIOL 46100 Ecophysiology (Spring 2008)
- BIOL 47300 Plant Physiology (Spring 2011)
- BIOL 47600 Endocrinology (Spring 2011)
- BIOL 47900 Aquatic Ecology (Spring)
- BIOC 41001 Experimental Biochemistry (Spring 2012)
- BIOC 48100 Current Topics in Biochemistry (Spring 2012)
- BIOL 57800 Evolution (Fall 2011) -- MAT course
Non-Biology Majors:
General Education
- ICSM 10111-01 First Year Seminar: Living with the Land (Fall 2009)
- ICSM 10500-04 First Year Seminar: Living with the Land (Fall 2010)
- BIOL 10210 Biology of Sex (Spring 2012)
- BIOL 10310 New and Emerging Diseases (Spring 2011 AND Fall 2011)
- BIOL 10400 Environmental Biology (Fall and Spring 2012)
- BIOL 10500 The Biology of Cancer (Spring 2012) -----------------> NEW COURSE!!!!
- BIOL 10600 Plants, People and Food Production (Spring 2010)
- BIOL 10700 Human Genetics (Fall 2011)
- BIOL 10800 The Human Organism (Fall 2008)
- BIOL 10900 Life in the Ocean (Fall 2010)
- BIOL 11010 The History of Life on Earth (Fall 2011 and Spring 2012)
- BIOL 11100 Biotechnology: Promise and Problem (Spring 2012) -----------------> NEW COURSE!!!!
- BIOL 11300 Insects and People (Fall 2010)
- BIOL 11400 Examining the World through Evolutionary Biology (Fall 2009)
- BIOL 11500 Essentials of Biology (FALL 2010 and Spring 2011)
- BIOL-11600 Biology of Birds (FALL 2011)
- BIOL 20500 Biology of Aging (Spring 2012)
- BIOL 21300 Applied Microbiology (Fall 2010)
- BIOL 22010 Honors Seminar: Biotechnology (Spring)
- BIOL 22020 Honors Seminar: Genes, Embryos, and Technology of Reproduction (Fall)
- BIOL 22030 Honors Seminar: Alternative Futures (Spring 2009) (PDF)
- Biol-22040 Honors Seminar: Evolution of Evolution: Society and the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection (Spring 2012)
- BIOL 22045 Honors Seminar: Playing with God (Fall 2011)
Service Courses (Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Environmental Studies/Science)
- BIOL 11900 Fundamentals of Biology (Fall 2011)
- BIOL 12000 Fundamentals of Biology (Spring 2012)
- BIOL 15100 Environmental Science I (Fall 2008)
- BIOL 20600 Primary Human Anatomy (Spring 2012)
- BIOL 27500 Field Biology (Fall 2011)
