This is the beginning course for non-science majors, exploring the impact of science on our world, and introducing major biological themes: how science is done, the cellular nature of life, evolution, heredity, and the world of viruses and microbes.

This course guides students toward developing and understanding of the preeminent principles of biology, including the areas of Genetics, Evolution, Ecology, Life Cycles and Reproduction, Cell Theory and the Molecular Basis of Life. It has been designed to explore the diversity of biological organisms, their evolution, forms and function.

This is the beginning course for science majors and pre-professional students that explores: biological chemistry, cell structure and function, energy transformations, genetics, and evolution, providing a foundation for advanced courses.

Introduction to biological science, emphasizing diversity, organisms, and organ systems.

An in depth study of the human body. Topics include; Cells and tissues, integumentary, skeletal, muscular, immune, respiratory, and circulatory systems.

An in depth study of the human body; Nutrition and metabolism, gastrointestinal, nervous, renal, endocrine, and reproductive systems.

Ecological and evolutionary pressures strongly influence an animals behavior. Specifically, in order to maximize reproductive success, animals must behave in ways that balance the sometimes competing needs of finding food, not becoming food, and finding and attracting mates. In this class we explore how predation, competition, foraging, social structure, and reproduction act as agents of natural selection in shaping animal behavior.

This course emphasis on comparative aspects of ionic and osmotic regulation, gas exchange and acid-base balance, circulation, muscles and movement, bioenergetics, neurosensory physiology, and endocrinology. It studies physiological and biochemical adaptations to environmental challenges in both invertebrates and vertebrates.

This course focuses on the mechanisms and evolution of animal behavior, including neural, hormonal, and genetic substrates of behavior; social behavior; and communication.

This course introduces the fundamental concepts of database management, including aspects of data models, database languages, relational database design and data retrieval, and Oracle database application development.

The principal objectives of the course are to introduce advanced database technology and software technology relevant to the needs of bioinformatics. These include genome and sequence databases such as GenBank and Ensemble, as well as protein databases such as PDB and SWISSPROT. Advanced, specialized and recent popular databases such as KEGG, and MGI will also be surveyed for their design and use.

Perl is a friendly and powerful computer programming language. This course introduces fundamental concepts and techniques of Perl programming. Perl is a general‐purpose language that combines computer skill with biological data management. Students will learn to write programs to manipulate biological data. Both Biology and Computer Science majors can benefit from the course.

This course has been designed to introduce the topic, history, and current research issues in bioinformatics, as well as prepare students in the skills necessary to communicate with researchers across the disciplines of computer science and biology. The course is also designed for computer scientists who want an introduction to the molecular biology and to the significant computational biology problems.