Credit awarded for achieving a certain score on the Biology Advanced Placement (AP) Examination. The necessary score may vary from year to year; consult Transfer Affairs for appropriate specifics. Catamount Core: N2.

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Credit awarded for achieving a certain score on the Biology Advanced Placement (AP) Examination. The necessary score may vary from year to year; consult Transfer Affairs for appropriate specifics. Catamount Core: N2.

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Credit for courses in biology and related life science fields taken at another institution that have been accepted for transfer credit at UVM and approved as fulfilling the N1: Natural Science General Education requirement. Catamount Core: N1.

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Credit for courses in biology and related life science fields taken at another institution that have been accepted for transfer credit at UVM and approved as fulfilling the N2: Natural Science with lab General Education requirement. Catamount Core: N2.

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Intensive first-year seminar focused on specific themes and/or disciplinary perspectives. Emphasis on developing critical reading and writing skills, substantive revision, information literacy, and analytical thinking. First-year seminars are frequently organized to meet one of the disciplinary Catamount Core requirements. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Catamount Core: WIL1.

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Intensive course in a broad disciplinary area (humanities, social sciences, arts, or natural sciences). Part of an integrated first-year experience in which students take 2-4 classes exploring aesthetic, humanistic, social, linguistic, environmental, or scientific issues. May repeat for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Co-requisite: Enrollment in the appropriate Liberal Arts Scholars Program. Catamount Core: WIL1.

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Intensive course in a broad disciplinary area (humanities, social sciences, arts, or natural sciences). Part of an integrated first-year experience in which students take 2-4 classes exploring aesthetic, humanistic, social, linguistic, environmental, or scientific issues. May repeat for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Co-requisite: Enrollment in the appropriate Liberal Arts Scholars Program.

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Explores how modern science evolves and how researchers build upon one another's contributions. This Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) provides early opportunities to Life Science Scholars to participate in the scientific inquiry process by focusing on the first steps of scientific research: reading, analyzing, and synthesizing scientific literature; and asking scientific questions. Prerequisites: Enrollment in Liberal Arts Scholars Program for Life Science Scholars.

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Supports first-year Life Science students in their transitions to a college-level science curriculum through exposure to resources, promotion of beneficial study habits, and the establishment of a classroom community.

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Introduces Biology majors to the science and practice of biology, with a particular focus on career development and information literacy skills in the life sciences.

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Introduces Zoology majors (B.A./B.S.) to the science and practice of zoology, with a particular focus on career development and information literacy skills in the life sciences.

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For nonscience majors. Selected biological concepts and topics relevant to humans, such as cancer, human genetics, environmental toxicants. With virtual laboratory. Credit not awarded for both BIOL 1100 and BIOL 1105. Catamount Core: N2.

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For nonscience majors. Selected biological topics relevant to humans, such as cancer, human genetics, environmental toxicants; biological concepts necessary for understanding these problems. No laboratory. Credit not awarded for both BIOL 1105 and BIOL 1100. Catamount Core: N1.

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For nonscience majors. Introduction to basic human anatomy and organ system physiology emphasizing normal and diseased homeostatic mechanisms. With virtual laboratory. Credit not awarded for both BIOL 1150 and BIOL 1155. Catamount Core: N2.

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For nonscience majors. Introduction to basic human anatomy and organ system physiology emphasizing normal homeostatic mechanisms and the changes that accompany common disorders and diseases. No laboratory. Credit not awarded for both BIOL 1155 and BIOL 1150. Catamount Core: N1.

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Covers crime scene investigation, methods of evidence collection and analysis, cause of death, and DNA identification in the context of biases that can influence the processing, interpretation, and use of evidence in the US court system. Catamount Core: D1, N1.

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Aimed at non-life science majors. Covers foundational information in genetics and cellular biology to determine which species will survive the challenges of novel environmental conditions due to climate change. Collaborative work on endangered species case studies and critical thinking about the mechanisms that allow for adaptation. Catamount Core: N1.

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For nonscience majors. The process of biological evolution, evidence for evolution, mechanisms of evolutionary change, origin of adaptations, evolution of behavior, social and reproductive behavior. No laboratory. Credit not awarded for both BIOL 1305 and BIOL 1300. Catamount Core: N1.

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For students with majors outside the sciences. Traces the interaction between physical conditions on earth and evolving life from the origin of the earth to the present. Primary learning objectives include being able to apply the scientific method as a way of understanding the world and to use this framework to understand how humans can have knowledge about past events that they cannot observe directly. Catamount Core: N1.

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Principles of cellular biochemistry; cell biology; genetics and evolution. Topics: biochemistry; metabolism, cell structure/function; respiration; photosynthesis; molecular, Mendelian and population genetics; genetics of evolution. Credit not awarded for both BIOL 1400 and BCOR 1400 or BCOR 1425. Catamount Core: N2.

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Principles of organismal biology; nature of scientific inquiry, plant form and function, pollination ecology, animal phylogeny illustrated by comparative anatomy and physiology; animal behavior. Credit not awarded for both BIOL 1450 and BCOR 1450. Catamount Core: N2.

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A course which is tailored to fit the interests of a specific student, which occurs outside the traditional classroom/laboratory setting under the supervision of a faculty member, for which credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion.

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Students will participate in all aspects of a research project while learning to navigate the messiness of real-world data. Students will develop research questions on topics related to marine soundscape ecology, marine animal bioacoustics, and cetacean ecology, behavior, and conservation. Prerequisites: BIOL 1450, BCOR 1450, or BCOR 1425. Catamount Core: N1.

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An overview of concepts and process in oceanography, geology, ecology, evolution, organismal biology, and conservation. Some of the topics we will discuss in class include tsunamis, ocean chemistry and physics, and bioluminescence. Prerequisites:BIOL 1400 or BCOR 1400, and BIOL 1450 or BCOR 1450; or BCOR 1425. Catamount Core: N1.

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Explores vertebrate diversity using the tools of evolutionary tree diagrams, structure and function relationships, ecology, and paleontology. Prerequisites: BCOR 1400 or BIOL 1400, and BCOR 1450 or BIOL 1450; or BCOR 1425. Catamount Core: N1.

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On-site supervised work experience combined with a structured academic learning plan directed by a faculty member or a faculty-staff team in which a faculty member is the instructor of record, for which academic credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion.

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Undergraduate student work on individual or small team research projects under the supervision of a faculty member, for which credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion. Pre/co-requisites: Junior/Senior standing; Department permission.

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Ecological and evolutionary interactions among plants and animals. Topics include herbivory, pollination, seed predation, ant-plant interactions, biological control, and anthropogenic effects on plant-animal interactions including the effects of GMOs and global climate change. Prerequisites: BCOR 2100. Catamount Core: N1.

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Theoretical and empirical analyses of community structure. Topics include population growth, metapopulation dynamics, competition, predation, species diversity, niches, disturbance succession, island biogeography, and conservation biology. Prerequisite: BCOR 2100; minimum Junior standing. Catamount Core: N1.

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Adaptive significance of behavior in natural environments. Evolutionary theory applied to behavior and tested with field data. Prerequisite: BCOR 2100 or Instructor permission. Catamount Core: N1.

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The evolutionary biology of social behavior in animals. Topics include the evolution of sociality, social interactions, and the functional organization of social groups. Prerequisite: BCOR 2100. Catamount Core: N1.

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Basic concepts in evolution will be covered, including the causes of evolutionary change, speciation, phylogenetics, and the history of life. Prerequisite: BCOR 2100. Catamount Core: N1.

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Exploration of advanced topics in Ecology and Evolution. May be repeated for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Prerequisite: BCOR 2100.

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Exploration of advanced topics in General Biology. May be repeated for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Prerequisite: BCOR 2100, BCOR 2300, or BCOR 2500.

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Current topics in developmental neurobiology through lectures and discussions of primary literature. The course is designed for advanced undergraduate life science majors and graduate students in the biological sciences. Prerequisites: BCOR 2300, BCOR 2500. Catamount Core: N1.

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Focus on molecular and cellular aspects of the nervous system. Electrical signaling, synaptic transmission, signal transduction, neural development, plasticity, and disease. Credit not awarded for both BIOL 3505 and NSCI 3505. Prerequisite: BCOR 2500. Catamount Core: N1.

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Provides students a deeper level of scientific fluency with guidance on how to critically read and understand primary scientific literature and how to communicate those findings, using model systems as our guide. Prerequisites: BCOR 2300 and (BCOR 2500 or NSCI 2105).

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Exploration of the fundamental molecular mechanisms that happens in a cell in different disease states. Diseases covered can include Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's, Diabetes, and Osteoporosis. Emphasizes the cellular and molecular basis of these diseases. Prerequisites: BCOR 2500 or NSCI 2105. Catamount Core: N1.

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An analysis of the cellular, subcellular, molecular, and genetic mechanisms that operate during oogenesis and embryogenesis in invertebrate and vertebrate organisms. Prerequisites: BCOR 2300, BCOR 2500. Catamount Core: N1.

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Current topics in developmental genetics explored through lectures and discussions of current literature; emphasis on molecular approaches. Prerequisite: BCOR 2300.

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Exploration of advanced topics in Cell and Developmental Biology. May be repeated for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Prerequisite: BCOR 2300.

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On-site supervised work experience combined with a structured academic learning plan directed by a faculty member or a faculty-staff team in which a faculty member is the instructor of record, for which academic credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion.

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A course which is tailored to fit the interests of a specific student, which occurs outside the traditional classroom/laboratory setting under the supervision of a faculty member, for which credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion.

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Undergraduate student work on individual or small team research projects under the supervision of a faculty member, for which credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion. Pre/co-requisites: Minimum Junior standing; Department permission.

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The application of previous coursework knowledge and skills to current problems in conservation, agriculture, public health, and medicine where a broad approach can provide new and useful insights. Designed around student-led case studies in areas of active research, primary literature, experimental design, and data analysis. Prerequisites: General Biology concentration; Senior standing.

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The application of previous coursework knowledge and skills to current problems in conservation, agriculture, public health, and medicine where an eco-evolutionary approach can provide new and useful insights. Designed around student-led case studies in areas of active research, primary literature, experimental design, and data analysis. Prerequisites: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology concentration; Senior standing.

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The application of previous coursework knowledge and skills to current problems in disease biology, public health, and medicine where an cellular and/or developmental approach can provide new and useful insights. Designed around student-led case studies in areas of active research, primary literature, experimental design, and data analysis. Prerequisites: Cell and Developmental Biology concentration; Senior standing.

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Molecular genetic tools and analytical methods used to investigate ecological processes in natural populations of plants and animals. Prerequisite: BCOR 2100.

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Collection, identification, and ecology of arthropods. Substantial field collecting. Prerequisite: BCOR 2100.

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Classification, identification, morphology, evolution, and distribution of mammals. Prerequisite: BCOR 2100. Catamount Core: N2.

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Methods of detecting and investigating genetic variation, as well as its causes and consequences. Applications from medicine, forensics, and environmental biology are emphasized. Prerequisite: BCOR 2300 or BCOR 2100. Catamount Core: N2.

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Contribution of modern research in such fields as genetics, systematics, distribution, and serology to problems of evolutionary change. Prerequisite: BCOR 2100.

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Structure, function, and phylogeny, with evolutionary and functional trends of all chordate groups. Prerequisite: Two courses from BCOR 2300, BCOR 2100, BCOR 2500. Catamount Core: N2.

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Physiology at the organ, systems, and organismal levels. Capstone course to consolidate biological concepts. Prerequisites: BCOR 2300; BCOR 2100 or BCOR 2500. Catamount Core: N2.

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A course-based research experience that explores physiological and evolutionary responses to environmental change. Students engage in multiple stages of the scientific process, including laboratory experimentation, data analysis, reading of the scientific literature, and scientific writing. Prerequisites: BCOR 2300; BCOR 2100 or BCOR 2500. Catamount Core: N2.

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Laboratory experiments to provide experience with modern genetic techniques. Bench work and data analysis emphasized. Prerequisite: BCOR 2300. Catamount Core: N2.

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Laboratory experiments to provide experience with modern genetic and proteomics techniques. Bench work and data analysis are emphasized. Prerequisites: BCOR 2300, BCOR 2500. Catamount Core: N2.

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Undergraduate student service as a teaching assistant, usually in an introductory-level course in the discipline, for which credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion.

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College honors thesis or other department/program honors, under the supervision of a faculty member. Offered at department discretion.

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