Historical grades cover up to five years through the selected term. Grade sorting prioritizes courses with at least 100 letter grades.
Evolutionary biology course covering microevolution, macroevolution, adaptation, speciation, systematics, quantitative genetics, and phylogenetic analyses.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Students report that exams are tricky with ambiguous multiple-choice questions, leading to low grades despite perfect quiz scores.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026BIOLOGY 699 is an advanced directed study course for Biology majors, arranged individually with a faculty member.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleGeneral Botany introduces basic plant biology principles, focusing on evolutionary sequences and structure-function relationships across organizational levels.
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Historical reviews of David Baum, Linda Graham: One review suggests the workload is light if you attend lectures, while another indicates quizzes are difficult despite reading the textbook.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026Introductory Biology covers cell structure, metabolism, genetic information flow, genetics principles, and animal physiology.
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The course requires outside class hours to grasp lecture material and complete lab reports.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026Introductory Biology covers plant physiology, organismal kingdoms, evolution, and ecology.
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The botany portion requires plenty of memorization. Lectures are dense in content but explained clearly and slowly, with pauses for questions.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026BOTANY 299 is a directed study course that introduces students to research questions and provides mentorship in a botany research environment.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleBOTANY 499 is an intermediate directed research course where students explore botany research questions under faculty mentorship.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleBOTANY 691 is a senior thesis course focused on individual research conducted under faculty supervision.
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BOTANY 692 is a senior thesis course involving individual research arranged with a faculty member.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleBOTANY 699 is a directed study course where students explore botany research questions under faculty mentorship.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleBOTANY 994 is an independent research course focused on plant systematics.
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FOUNDATIONS OF EVOLUTION explores key themes and debates in evolutionary biology over the last 50 years through reading and discussion.
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Fall 2022–Fall 2022 · limited sampleGENETICS 990 is a research course where students conduct independent laboratory research under faculty supervision to prepare a graduate thesis.
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This course covers variable advanced topics in genetics not included in the standard curriculum.
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Spring 2024–Fall 2025 · limited sampleIndividual mentored study for seniors completing theses for Honors in the Major.
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MOLBIOL 682 is an individual mentored study for seniors completing theses for Honors in the Major.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sampleZOOLOGY 153 covers introductory biology topics like cell function, genetics, and physiology for engineering majors without a lab.
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Spring 2022–Spring 2026ZOOLOGY 957 is a graduate-level seminar covering various fields of zoological research.
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Spring 2022–Fall 2025 · limited sample