Senate Document 38

                          APC Document #26

                             1985 - 1986


BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Biology:  New Major Requirements

The Biology Department has taken the opportunity of the new general
education requirements to review its requirements for the major in
Biology.  As a result of these deliberations the Biology Department
wishes to modify its requirements as shown:

Track A - Biology

     I.    Required courses in the major - 7 hours, including 105,
           451 and 452.

     II.   Restricted electives in the major - 20 hours.  A student
           must choose at least one course from each of the 
           following course groupings:

           A.  Biological Diversity -332, 333, 334, 335
           B.  Ecology - 221, 241, 341, 442
           C.  Physiology - 345, 355, 339   
           D.  Molecular - 245, 346, 443, 444

           A student must take one course from each of these two
           groups:  1)  334 or 335
                    2)  332 or 333

     III.  Free electives - 8 hours.  A student must take two
           additional courses in Biology, numbered 300 or above.
  
     IV.   Required courses outside the major - 21 hours, including
           CHEM 141, 142, 231;  STAT 125;  CSCI 141 or 142 or 143;
           MATH 163 or higher numbered course in MATH.

Biology Minor

     21 hours in Biology including 105 and 16 hours chosen from
     ...(contiue as in current catalog)


RATIONALE:

     The Biology Department's goal statement suggests a curriculum
emphasizing research methods.  The proposed major requirements
fulfill this commitment by exposing students to the principal 
research approaches to the study of living organisms:  systematic
(diversity); ecological; physiological; and molecular/cellular.  In 
addition, a Biology major should have familiarity with both plant 
and animal diversity--we are therefore requiring one course in each 
of those areas.