Requires at least 34 hours in the department.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Major Courses | ||
| BIO 150 & 150L | Biology I and Biology I Lab | 4 |
| BIO 160 & 160L | Biology II and Biology II Lab | 4 |
| Select at least three 300-level four-hour Biology courses | 12 | |
| BIO 390 | Mentored Research | 2 |
| or BIO 391 | Independent Research | |
| or BIO 399 | Mentored Biology | |
| Additional hours in Biology beyond BIO 201 | 12 | |
| Co-Requirements | ||
| Choose five of the following * | 15-20 | |
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Note that co-requirements cannot be satisfied with courses that are cross-listed between Biology and another department or between Biology and the BMB major. Co-required courses may be used to satisfy a minor in another department or interdisciplinary program but cannot be counted toward a second major. Note that some of the courses listed may have non-BIO prerequisites.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Any CHM course at the 100-, 200-, 300-level except CHM 108, 301, 302, 381, 390, 391, 392, or CHM 395 | ||
| ANT 113 | Introduction to Biological Anthropology | 3 |
| ANT 339 | Culture and Nature: Introduction to Environmental Anthropology | 3 |
| ANT 360 | Anthropology of Global Health | 3 |
| ANT 362 | Medical Anthropology | 3 |
| ANT 366 | Human Evolution | 3 |
| ANT 368 | Human Osteology | 4 |
| CNS 335 | Health and Human Services in a Diverse Society | 3 |
| CNS 340 | Professional Orientation to Health and Human Services | 3 |
| COM 345 | Rhetoric of Science and Technology | 3 |
| COM 356 | Health Communication: Patient-Provider | 3 |
| COM 358 | Health Communication and Bioethics | 3 |
| CSC 111 | Introduction to Computer Science | 4 |
| CSC 112 | Fundamentals of Computer Science | 4 |
| CSC 201 | Data Structures and Algorithms | 3 |
| CSC 221 | Data Structures and Algorithms I | 3 |
| ECN 240 | Economics of Health and Medicine | 3 |
| ECN 241 | Environmental and Natural Resource Economics | 3 |
| EDU 201 | Educational Policy and Practice | 3 |
| EDU 311 | Learning and Cognitive Science | 3 |
| ENG 341 | Literature and the Environment | 3 |
| ENG 361 | Literature and Science | 3 |
| HES 262 | Statistics in the Health Sciences | 3 |
| HES 350 | Human Physiology | 3 |
| HES 352 | Human Gross Anatomy | 4 |
| HES 360 | Epidemiology | 3 |
| HMN 365 | Humanity and Nature | 3 |
| HPA 150 | Introduction to Public Health | 3 |
| HST 113 | Health, Disease and Healing in World History | 3 |
| HST 339 | Sickness and Health in American History | 3 |
| JOU 375 | Special Topics in Journalism (when topic is Environmental and Science Reporting) | 1-3 |
| MTH 111 | Calculus with Analytic Geometry I | 4 |
| MTH 112 | Calculus with Analytic Geometry II | 4 |
| MTH 113 | Multivariable Calculus | 4 |
| MTH 117 | Discrete Mathematics | 4 |
| PHY 113 | General Physics I | 4 |
| PHY 114 | General Physics II | 4 |
| PHY 120 | Physics and Chemistry of Environment | 4 |
| PHY 123 | General Physics I - Studio Format | 4 |
| PHY 124 | General Physics II - Studio Format | 4 |
| POL 281 | Environmental Political Thought | 3 |
| REL 307 | Magic, Science and Religion | 3 |
| REL 329 | Chinese Medicine | 3 |
| REL 341 | Religion and Ecology | 3 |
| STA 111 | Elementary Probability and Statistics | 4 |
| STA 112 | Introduction to Regression and Data Science | 3 |
| WRI 320 | Writing in and about Science: Scientists as Writers and Writers as Scientists | 3 |
For the B.A. major, the schedule of biology and related courses is flexible. After completing BIO 150, BIO 150L, BIO 160, and BIO 160L, students should select courses from the 200- and 300-levels in accord with their interests and career goals. Students may elect to take BIO 150, BIO 150L, BIO 160, and BIO 160L in the first year, BIO 150 and BIO 150L only in the first year, or take BIO 150, BIO 150L, BIO 160, and BIO 160L in fall and spring of the second year. Students taking the B.A. major with an interest in a health profession career are advised to take CHM 111 and CHM 111L in the fall of the first year and to select additional co-requirements after consulting with a health professions advisor.
A maximum of four hours of 390-sequence courses may be counted as hours in the major, but an additional four hours may be taken and applied toward graduation as elective hours. A minimum GPA of 2.0 in biology courses taken at Wake Forest is required for graduation with a major in biology. The Biology Department may require participation in assessment activities as part of ongoing program evaluation.
Highly qualified majors are invited by the department to apply for admission to the honors program in biology during the Fall Semester of their senior year. To be graduated with the distinction “Honors in Biology,” a graduating student must have a minimum GPA of 3.0 in all courses and a 3.3 in biology courses. In addition, the student must submit an honors paper describing his or her independent research project, written in the form of a scientific paper, which must be submitted to and approved by an advisory committee. Students are also required to make a short oral presentation to the Biology department at the end of Spring Semester. Specific details regarding the honors program, including selecting an advisor and an advisory committee, deadlines, and writing of the honors thesis, may be obtained from the chair of the departmental Undergraduate Research Committee.