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CURRENT 2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
CURRENT 2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Biology, BS


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Total number of hours for the program: 120.

Liberal Studies Hours (42 hours)


Liberal Studies Program Requirements  

Concentrations:


Concentration (26 hours) selected from one of the following:

Guided Electives (16 hours)


 May include two non-biology courses:

  • One elective from the Ecology and Evolution set
  • One elective from the Organismal Biology set
  • One elective from the Cell and Molecular Biology set
  • Electives chosen from any course set sufficient to bring the total for the concentration to 26 hours.

Guided Electives (16 hours)


May include two non-biology courses:

  • One elective from the Ecology and Evolution set
  • One elective from the Organismal Biology set
  • One elective from the Cell and Molecular Biology set
  • Electives chosen from any course set sufficient to bring the total for the concentration to 26 hours.

Guided Electives (16 hours)


May include two non-biology courses:

  • One elective from the Ecology and Evolution set
  • One elective from the Organismal Biology set
  • One elective from the Cell and Molecular Biology set
  • Electives chosen from any course set sufficient to bring the total for the concentration to 26 hours.

General Electives


General Electives include 6-15 hours (depending on the hours taken for Liberal Studies that also count in the major.) Six hours of general electives at the 300-/400- (junior/senior) level are required to complete the program for each of the concentrations offered. Students must take at least 30 hours of all courses at the 300-/400- level (junior/senior) level at WCU to satisfy general university requirements.

Biology Elective Course Sets


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