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4.00 Credits
Designed to meet the requirements for the California Multiple Subject Teaching Credential for teaching grades K-8 (but open to all students). The subject areas include zoology, botany, physiology, cell structure, ecology, genetics, and evolution. Course explores major themes in these subject areas as they relate to everyday life, ethical concerns, conservation issues, and common misunderstandings. Course approach emphasizes the process of science, critical thinking, active learning, social relevancy, and building connections between case studies and general concepts of biology. Lecture and inquiry-based lab. Offered every year.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of current topics in biotechnology as they impact society, bioethics, and sustainable living. Course addresses the questions “What is biotechnology?”, “How does it work?”, and “How does it affect our lives?”. Topics may include genetic engineering, gene amplification, genome projects, gene therapy, DNA fingerprinting, cloning, assisted reproductive technology, genetic screening, recombinant DNA, knock-outs, AIDS research, and GM foods. Course approach emphasizes the process of science, critical thinking, active learning, social relevancy, and building connections between case studies and general concepts of biology. Lecture. Offered every year.
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4.00 Credits
A wide-ranging exploration of major topics in ecological science relating to current issues in conservation biology. Drawing from academic and applied fields, the course examines major concepts in conservation biology and how they impact society, public policy, wise management of natural resources, and ethical choices encountered in everyday life. Focus topics include biodiversity, habitat destruction, exotic species introductions, human harvesting, protected areas, and future prospects. Course approach emphasizes the process of science, critical thinking, active learning, social relevancy, and building connections between case studies and general concepts. Lecture and inquiry-based lab. Offered every year.
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4.00 Credits
The first course of a two-semester sequence which examines the human body from an integrated perspective. Topics include an introduction to chemistry and cell function, tissue types, skeletal system, muscular system, and nervous system. Does not count for credit in the Biology major. Lecture and lab. Offered every year. Prerequisite or Corequisite: Chemistry 103 or Chemistry 152.
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4.00 Credits
The second semester of a sequence which examines the human body from an integrated perspective emphasizing the interrelationship of structure and function. Topics include endocrine system and reproduction, cardiovascular system, immune system, respiratory system, digestive system, and urinary system. Does not count for credit toward the Biology major. Lecture and lab. Offered every year. Prerequisite: Biology 130; Chemistry 103, or Chemistry 152.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the principles of cell biology and biochemistry. Topics to be discussed include the chemical basis of life, the structure and function of cellular organelles, basic metabolic pathways, the expression of the genetic material, recombinant DNA technology and models for the origin of cells. Lecture and lab. Offered every semester. Prerequisite: Must have a previous course in high school or university-level chemistry.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the principles of ecology, evolutionary biology and sustainability. Lecture and lab. Offered every semester.
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3.00 Credits
Principles of animal and plant structure, function, and diversity. Lecture and lab. Offered every year. Prerequisite: Biology 211.
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4.00 Credits
A study of microbial physiology, the diseases associated with infections by certain pathogenic microbes and the vertebrate response to microbial infections. Does not apply toward the Biology major. Lecture and lab. Offered every year. Prerequisites: Chemistry 103; Biology 140 (may be taken concurrently).
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2.00 Credits
This course provides students with the background and exposure to a "toolkit" of Web-based servers running user-friendly applications appropriate to handling the mass of complex biological data being generated in the field of modern biology. It emphasizes techniques for searching sequence databases, pairwise and multiple sequence alignment, phylogenetic methods, and methods for pattern recognition and functional inference from sequence data. Lecture and laboratory. Offered as a Quad course. Prerequisites: Mathematics 362 or consent of instructor.
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