Department of Biology

Department of Biology Course Syllabi


Course NumberCourse TitleSemesterInstructorSyllabus/Course Site
Biol 101Principles of BiologyFall 2011DeSaixPDF, Course Site
Biol 101Principles of BiologyFall 2011HoganPDF, Course Site
Biol 101Principles of BiologySummer I 2011KuoPDF, Course Site
Biol 101Principles of BiologySummer II 2011DeSaixPDF, Course Site
Biol 101Principles of BiologySpring 2011HoganPDF, Course Site
Biol 101HPrinciples of Biology HonorsFall 2009DeSaixPDF, Course Site
Biol 101LPrinciples of Biology LabFall 2011StegengaPDF, Course Site
Biol 101LPrinciples of Biology LabSummer Session I. 2011StegengaPDF, Course Site
Biol 101LPrinciples of Biology LabSummer Session II. 2011StegengaPDF, Course Site
Biol 101LPrinciples of Biology LabSpring 2011StegengaPDF, Course Site
Biol 113Issues in Modern BiologyFall 2009HoganPDF, Course Site
Biol 201Ecology and EvolutionFall 2010Buckley & WillettPDF, Course Site
Biol 201Ecology and Evolution (Recitation)Fall 2010Buckley & WillettPDF, Course Site
Biol 201Ecology and EvolutionSummer I 2010VandermastPDF, Course Site
Biol 201Ecology and EvolutionFall 2009PeetPDF, Course Site
Biol 201Ecology and Evolution (Recitation)Fall 2009PDF, Course Site
Biol 202Molecular Biology and GeneticsFall 2011Bloom & ShemerPDF, Course Site
Biol 202Molecular Biology and GeneticsSummer II 2011TrainPDF, Course Site
Biol 202Molecular Biology and GeneticsSpring 2010Killebrew & SlepPDF, Course Site
Biol 202Molecular Biology and GeneticsSpring 2010Hogan & KieberPDF, Course Site
Biol 202Molecular Biology and GeneticsFall 2009Pukkila & SearlesPDF, Course Site
Biol 205Cell and Developmental BiologyFall 2011A. Jones & PeiferPDF, Course Site
Biol 205Cell and Developmental BiologySummer I 2010Janice JonesPDF, Course Site
Biol 205Cell and Developmental BiologySpring 2009Goldstein & LiljegrenPDF, Course Site
Biol 213Evolution & LifeFall 2009KingsolverPDF, Course Site
Biol 252Fundamentals of Human Anatomy & PhysiologyFall 2011JohnsonPDF, Course Site
Biol 252Fundamentals of Human Anatomy & PhysiologySummer I 2010P. DeSaixPDF, Course Site
Biol 252Fundamentals of Human Anatomy & PhysiologySummer I 2010K. HoganPDF, Course Site
Biol 252Fundamentals of Human Anatomy & PhysiologySummer II 2010FiordalisiPDF, Course Site
Biol 252Fundamentals of Human Anatomy & PhysiologyFall 2010ShemerPDF, Course Site
Biol 252Fundamentals of Human Anatomy & PhysiologyFall 2009JohnsonPDF, Course Site
Biol 252LFundamentals of Human Anatomy & Physiology LabFall 2009JohnsonPDF, Course Site
Biol 271Introduction to Plant BiologySpring 2009GenselPDF, Course Site
Biol 276Evolution of Vertebrate LifeFall 2009JohnsonPDF, Course Site
Biol 276Evolution of Vertebrate LifeSpring 2011SockmanPDF, Course Site
Biol 277Vertebrate Field ZoologyFall 2009WileyPDF, Course Site
Biol 278Animal BehaviorFall 2009C. LohmannPDF, Course Site
Biol 278Animal BehaviorSummer 2009WileyPDF, Course Site
Biol 294Community Donations of the Cellular Components of BloodSpring 2010HoganPDF, Course Site
Biol 402Infectious Disease and Global Public HealthSpring 2010Duronio & PeiferPDF, Course Site
Biol 410Principles and Methods of Teaching BiologySpring 2011CoblePDF, Course Site
Biol 421LLaboratory ExperimentsFall 2011MatthyssePDF, Course Site
Biol 422MicrobiologyFall 2011MatthyssePDF, Course Site
Biol 422LMicrobiology LabFall 2011MatthyssePDF, Course Site
Biol 423LLaboratory Experiments in GeneticsFall 2011GrantPDF, Course Site
Biol 425Human GeneticsFall 2010Copenhaver & SekelskyPDF, Course Site
Biol 427Human Diversity and Population GeneticsFall 2010C. JonesPDF, Course Site
Biol 430Introduction to Biological ChemistryFall 2009SpremulliPDF, Course Site
Biol 434Molecular BiologySpring 2011SearlesPDF, Course Site
Biol 441Vertebrate EmbryologySpring 2011HarrisPDF, Course Site
Biol 445Cancer BiologySpring 2012ShemerPDF, Course Site
Biol 445Cancer BiologySpring 2011Peifer & ShemerPDF, Course Site
Biol 446Unsolved Problems in Cell Biology Fall 2011HarrisPDF, Course Site
Biol 447Laboratory in Cell BiologySpring 2010A. JonesPDF, Course Site
Biol 448Advanced Cell Biology: Signal TransductionFall 2010Dangl & KieberPDF, Course Site
Biol 450Introduction To NeurobiologyFall 2010K. Lohmann & RobertsPDF, Course Site
Biol 451Comparative PhysiologySpring 2011Hedrick & KierPDF, Course Site
Biol 452 (Math452)Mathematical and Computational Models in BiologyFall 2009Hedrick & ServedioPDF, Course Site
Biol 453Animal Societies and CommunicationFall 2009Wiley & SockmanPDF, Course Site
Biol 454Evolutionary GeneticsFall 2009VisionPDF, Course Site
Biol 455Behavioral NeuroscienceSpring 2011BurmeisterPDF, Course Site
Biol 461Fundamentals of EcologyFall 2010Peet & UmbanhowarPDF, Course Site
Biol 462Marine EcologyFall 2010BrunoPDF, Course Site
Biol 465Global Biodiversity and MacroecologyFall 2010HurlbertPDF, Course Site
Biol 469Behavioral EcologySpring 2011K. PfennigPDF, Course Site
Biol 471Evolutionary MechanismsSpring 2011D. PfennigPDF, Course Site
Biol 473Mammalian MorphologyFall 2011JohnsonPDF, Course Site
Biol 476Avian BiologySpring 2010WileyPDF, Course Site
Biol 490Global Change EcologySpring 2010BuckleyPDF, Course Site
Biol 514Evolution and DevelopmentFall 2010Goldstein & D. PfennigPDF, Course Site
Biol 522Bacterial GeneticsSpring 2011MatthyssePDF, Course Site
Biol 524Strategies of Host-Microbe InteractionsFall 2010DanglPDF, Course Site
Biol 525Computational Analyses and Resources in GenomicsSpring 2012FureyPDF, Course Site
Biol 526HComputational GeneticsFall 2010VisionPDF, Course Site
Biol 527Systems BiologyFall 2011LaederachPDF, Course Site
Biol 531Basic Research Leading to Drug Discovery in HIV Treatment or PreventionSpring 2011DuncanPDF, Course Site
Biol 535Molecular Biology TechniquesFall 2011StaffordPDF, Course Site
Biol 542Light Microscopy for Biology and the Biomedical SciencesSpring 2011Bloom & SalmonPDF, Course Site
Biol 555PaleobotanyFall 2010GenselPDF, Course Site
Biol 561Ecological Plant GeographySpring 2010PeetPDF, Course Site
Biol 565Conservation BiologySpring 2011WhitePDF, Course Site
Biol 568Disease Ecology and EvolutionFall 2010MitchellPDF, Course Site
Biol 590Membrane Traffic in Human Disease.Spring 2011DuncanPDF, Course Site




Advanced courses open to graduate students and to undergraduates with the permission of the instructor

Course NumberCourse TitleSemesterInstructorSyllabus/Course Site
Biol 602 (Ecol602)Professional Development Skills for Ecologists and BiologistsFall 2009K. PfennigPDF, Course Site
Biol 621 (Gnet621)Principles of Genetic Analysis 1Fall 2010Ahmed, Copenhaver & Sekelsky PDF, Course Site
Biol 622 (Gnet622)Human & Mouse GeneticsSpring 2011PDF, Course Site
Biol 625Sex, Meiosis, & RecombinationSpring 2011Copenhaver, C. Jones & Sekelsky PDF, Course Site
Biol 643Molecular Mechanisms of the CytoskeletonFall 2010SlepPDF, Course Site
Biol 657 (Masc 504)Biological OceanographySpring 2011MarchettiPDF, Course Site
Biol 669Seminar in EcologySpring 2011PeetPDF, Course Site




Graduate Courses

Course NumberCourse TitleSemesterInstructorSyllabus/Course Site
Biol 801Graduate Seminar: Elegant Experiments in BiologyFall 2009GoldsteinPDF, Course Site
Biol 842Graduate Seminar: Membrane traffic in human diseaseSpring 2010DuncanPDF, Course Site



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