Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Asian and Pacific Studies (ASPA) |
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ASPA 4820 Daoism: Theory and Practice
4 semester hours
An introduction to Daoism, its classical texts, and its enduring practices. Special emphasis will be on the examinations of Daoist philosophical concepts and persistent issues that arise in the development of Daoist spiritual tradition. A central aim of the course is to understand the Chinese ways of thinking, values, and the way of life.
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ASPA 4830 Advanced Asian Media
4 semester hours
This is a sequel to ASPA 3600 , but the introductory course is not a prerequisite. This survey course of media systems in the Asia Pacific emphasizes compare-and-contrast methodology. An additional education tool is the University website, ASIA MEDIA (http://asiamedia.lmu.edu), where students discover the origins of the media presentations, develop rigorous analytic tools, and critique that epistemology. This course is sometimes taught in conjunction with an Internet-linked class at the United Arab Emirates University in Al Ain, UAE.
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ASPA 4860 Topics in Asian Literature
4 semester hours
The subject matter of this course will vary from semester to semester.
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ASPA 4880 Modern Asian Fiction
4 semester hours
This course examines twentieth-century Chinese and Japanese fiction through the study of novels, short stories, novellas, biographies, diaries, and film. The class will also study major literary trends and movements.
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ASPA 4900 Asian Women Writers
4 semester hours
This is a cross-cultural study of Asian women writers through the readings of poetry, short stories, autobiographies, diaries, and novels. Most readings are derived from contemporary female writers from China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the United States.
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ASPA 4998 Special Studies
1 TO 4 semester hours
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ASPA 4999 Independent Studies
1 TO 4 semester hours
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ASPA 5000 Senior Integrating Seminar
4 semester hours
This requirement enables the students to integrate their work in Asian and Pacific Studies. The actual content of the course will depend on the student’s chosen focus. Students write a senior thesis under the guidance of a faculty member. The thesis, while focused on a particular topic, is intended to be interdisciplinary.
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Business Administration (BADM) |
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BADM 601 The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
3 semester hours
The factors present in the external environments of business relative to business law and political entities that must be dealt with by business managers. Interrelated ethical considerations will be explored, along with such topics as agency, contracts, business organizations, property, the court system, and business interfaces with local, state, and federal governments.
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BADM 602 Financial and Managerial Accounting
3 semester hours
The nature, techniques, and uses of accounting from a manager’s perspective are covered. Topics include accounting methodology, corporate financial statements and disclosures, alternative accounting measurement techniques, interpreting quality of earnings, strategic planning, and operational decision making.
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BADM 603 Business Statistics
3 semester hours
This course covers the use of basic statistics, probability concepts, sampling distributions, hypothesis tests, correlation/regression analysis and analysis of variance for making rational business decisions under conditions of risk and uncertainty. Applications of the computer and standard software packages as management tools are used to simplify and facilitate this process.
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BADM 604 Business Economics
3 semester hours
This course adopts a thematic approach to applying economic concepts to solving contemporary real-world business problems. These problems are analyzed from the perspective of an entrepreneur, a business manager, and an economic policy maker. Specific themes include the following: understanding economic terminology, issues, and methods; identifying determinants of supply and demand; understanding the economics of the firm; characterizing alternative market structures; measuring aggregate demand and supply; and understanding the implications of various government economic policies.
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BADM 605 Management and Organizational Behavior
3 semester hours
The study of management relates to individual, small group, and total organizational systems. This course presents insights from a variety of academic disciplines, including management, psychology, sociology, and economics, to understand the processes through which people work together in organizations. Topics covered include management principles, leadership, motivation, decision-making, problem solving, communication, organizational culture, teams, and performance management. The course also includes a focus on ethical issues and the social responsibilities of managers in a global environment. Class discussions, cases, activities, and reflective exercises allow participants to explore and apply insights to their own professional life.
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BADM 606 Marketing Management
3 semester hours
This course covers the essential principles of marketing management as a vital component of a business operation, emphasizing marketing’s strategic basis and the real-world utilization of both traditional and innovative techniques to influence both the trade and the consumer in making a purchase decision. Conceptualizing marketing as communication, we will take a customer-centric approach to: understanding what distinguishes our target audience, conducting strategic planning, developing the brand via the marketing mix, and employing marketing research techniques for both development and evaluation. We will explore how marketing guides business strategy, discovers and creates demand for products, and influences product development.
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BADM 607 Operations Analysis and Decision Support Systems
3 semester hours
This course applies a decision-making approach involving computer applications to understand various operations management problems encountered in business. Topics include linear programming, forecasting, project management, simulation, queuing theory, and decision trees.
Prerequisite: BADM 603 .
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BADM 609 Management Information Systems
3 semester hours
The course provides an overview of planning, analysis and design, implementation, and operation and control of information technology for business environments. Primary emphasis is placed on the role of the manager in a computer-based information systems environment, and the course is designed to introduce students to key IT concepts and to enhance their understanding of the issues that business executives face when developing and managing information systems.
Prerequisite: BADM 605 .
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BADM 611 Management Workshop: Introduction to Business and Communications
1 semester hours
This workshop examines the relationships among business functions and how they are integrated by management to create and sustain a business. Oral and written communication skills are also addressed.
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BADM 612 Management Workshop: Personal Development and Career Planning
1 semester hours
This workshop is a continuation of the first workshop and focuses on personal development and career planning and continues development of oral and written communication skills.
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Business Core (BCOR) |
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BCOR 1910 Business for Good
2 semester hours
The LMU College of Business Administration aims to “advance knowledge and develop business leaders with moral courage and creative confidence to be a force for good in the global community.” This course is a transformational experience for incoming undergraduate students that begins their journey toward a business degree and beyond, focusing on the role of business as a force for good.
The course is an immersive and interactive experience with the following elements. It involves the major global challenges that you will face in your professional careers, such as poverty and the environment, and brings out the role of business in being a force for good in addressing these challenges as well as in a broad array of issues. It involves a project where you will design a business plan to launch of a product for low-income customers in domestic or international markets, while achieving economic sustainability as well as social and environmental sustainability. It involves doing good as being at the heart of the business rather than as corporate social responsibility. It involves working with companies. And most importantly, it will involve examining your values as it relates to doing good in the professional and personal realms. The course will culminate in a poster session. In short, you will start out your careers by having all of these challenges to confront in your first semester.
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BCOR 2120 Accounting Information for Decision Making
4 semester hours
This course involves the study of managerial accounting. Accounting information is used by management to make decisions that guide the organization through planning, organizing, directing, and controlling activities. Decision making requires a future orientation to the information, with relevant and flexible data. Topics covered include cost classification, costing and pricing, estimation models, cost-volume-profit analysis, segment reporting, performance evaluation, operational and capital budgeting, and non-routine business decisions. This course draws heavily from economics, finance, management, and marketing.
Prerequisites: BCOR 2110 and MATH 112 or MATH 120 or MATH 131 , all with a minimum grade of C (2.0).
University Core fulfilled: Flag: Information Literacy.
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BCOR 2710 Business Information Technology
4 semester hours
The course will be devoted to problem-solving and acquiring personal productivity software skills for effective and efficient use in business and organizations. The course will introduce students to key concepts in MIS (Management Information Systems) and enhance understanding of the issues that business organizations face when developing and managing information systems. Emphasis is on use of information technology for business problem-solving and creating business opportunities. Specifically, the course will introduce students to:
- Application software (e.g., Excel) for solving business problems
- Basic concepts of business data communications
- Relational Database Management Systems (DBMS), like Microsoft Access, for creating database solutions that can support and transform business processes
- The use of information technology to formulate strategy and foster innovation
- The design and implementation of systems in organizations
- Web site design using a content management system or cloud-based services
This course will also examine emerging technologies and IT trends. By completing the course, students should be better equipped to understand the role of IT in solving business problems, to participate in IT projects, and to communicate more knowledgeably with IT experts.
Prerequisite: BCOR 2110 .
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BCOR 3410 Fundamentals of Finance
4 semester hours
This course introduces students to finance, primarily from a corporate perspective. The principal objective of the course is for students to develop an understanding of the basic tools of financial analysis and how to use them to make decisions. Students will learn how to incorporate time value of money and financial projections into their analyses.
Prerequisites: BCOR 2110 and ECON 1050 (or ECON 1100 and ECON 1200 ), ECON 2300 or ECON 2350 or MATH 104 , and MATH 112 or MATH 131 , all with a minimum grade of C (2.0).
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BCOR 3610 Managing People and Organizations
4 semester hours
This course provides future leaders and managers with a basic understanding of theories and principles of Organizational Behavior (OB) and their proactive applications in critical Human Resource Management (HRM) responsibilities for the effective management of employees, teams, and organizations. Included are key and socially responsible management practices in planning, organizing, and controlling for achieving organizational goals and objectives, as well as in creating a high-quality work environment for attracting, developing, and retaining human talent.
Prerequisite: BCOR 1910 , with a minimum grade of C (2.0).
University Core fulfilled: Flag: Engaged Learning.
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BCOR 3750 Operations and Supply Chain Management Analytics
4 semester hours
This course introduces students to decision making and model building in the management of operations which create products and/or services. The principles of operations management apply throughout the world to all productive enterprises. Efficient production methods require the effective application of the concepts, tools, and techniques that are covered in this course. Hands-on learning is an important feature of the course. A project case analysis will require students to collect, organize, and analyze data to provide recommendations for how to improve the performance of a specified operating or supply chain system.
Prerequisites: ACCT 3140 or BCOR 2710 , and ECON 2300 or MATH 104 or MATH 112 .
University Core fulfilled: Flag: Quantitative Reasoning.
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BCOR 4910 Business Ethics and Sustainability
4 semester hours
Business Ethics and Sustainability focuses on the interaction and importance of social, political, economic and environmental forces in business and society. Using the framework of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, students will study the moral responsibility of business for societal and environmental impacts. Emphasis is placed on applying ethical decision models to a variety of stakeholder issues, which will include a substantial investigation into the underlying normative ethical theories and socio-political factors that impact business’ broader responsibilities.
Prerequisites: BCOR 2710 , BCOR 3410 , BCOR 3510 , and BCOR 3610 , all with a minimum grade of D (1.0) and an average grade of C (2.0) across all four courses.
University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Ethics and Justice; Flag: Writing.
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Bioethics (BIOE) |
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BIOE 6000 Introduction to Bioethics
3 semester hours
Bioethics represents a complex intellectual phenomenon in the canon of newly emerging disciplines. Although an established academic field, it still struggles to find a formal and coherent methodology for the analysis of ethical problems triggered by advances in medicine and the life sciences. The course introduces students to the historical, theoretical, and thematic dimensions of bioethics. More specifically, the course looks at historical contribution of theologians and philosophers to bioethics; it addresses the theoretical challenges of bioethics as an interdisciplinary field, with an emphasis on dominant theories in bioethics; and, finally, it touches upon the main topics of bioethics, including medical experimentation, assisted reproductive technologies, genetics, transplantation, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.
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BIOE 6100 Bioethics at the Beginning of Life
3 semester hours
The course looks at bioethical questions that concern the beginnings of life. Topics include the ethics of abortion, maternal fetal conflicts, ethical problems in perinatology and neonatology, as well as the ethical judgment on the entire field of assisted reproductive medicine–from in vitro fertilization, to surrogate motherhood, gamete storage techniques, and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. There is also a clinical component to this class that offers students with an opportunity for engaged learning. Students will be exposed to decision-making in the clinical setting of obstetrics and neonatology departments at various hospitals.
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BIOE 6200 Law and Bioethics
3 semester hours
The law contributes to public bioethics discourse on a variety of issues, from abortion to assisted suicide and euthanasia, to questions of access to health care. This course looks at the intersection of law and bioethics, relative especially to the study of important legal cases and court decisions. Examples include Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey for abortion, Quinlan, Cruzan, and Schiavo for end of life issues, etc. Students will be exposed to the ethical reasoning of important legal cases and their jurisprudential developments, thus showing how landmark legal cases have shaped bioethical discourse.
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BIOE 6300 Bioethics at the End of Life
3 semester hours
The increasing medicalization of the dying process poses new ethical problems to health care professionals and patients alike. This course looks at the bioethical problems that concern the end of life. Topics include ethical criteria for withholding and withdrawing treatments, palliative care, proxy decision making for incompetent patients, as well as the controversial questions, newly emerging in both the clinical realm and the law, of assisted suicide and euthanasia. This class will entail a clinical component as well. Students will be exposed to decision-making in the clinical setting of the Intensive Care Unit at various hospitals or in nursing homes.
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BIOE 6400 Clinical Bioethics
3 semester hours
This class focuses on “clinical” bioethics, that is, the ethics of decision making at the bedside, exposing students to the practical mechanisms presiding over such decisions in today’s health care facilities, such as ethics committees, clinical consultations, clinical rounds, etc. In addition to being introduced to some methods and content of clinical bioethics, this class offers students a first exposure to the institutional mechanism mentioned above, together with the opportunity to interact with those who do bioethics in a clinical setting.
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BIOE 6500 Elective Topics in Bioethics
3 semester hours
This course analyzes specific topics in bioethics, such as public policy and bioethics, global bioethics, feminist bioethics, the relation between bioethics and environmental sensibility, history of medicine, sociology of medicine, etc. These courses are taught by affiliate faculty of the Bioethics Institute and introduce students to the interdisciplinary dimensions of bioethical questions.
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BIOE 6600 Foundations of Theological Ethics
3 semester hours
This course introduces students to the foundations of theological ethics. After a historical introduction dealing with different models of ethical thinking, the course looks at the following: biblical roots of Christian morality; the mediation of faith and moral reason, with special reference to the relation of philosophical and theological ethics; the debate on normative theories; and the integration of virtue ethics, fundamental moral option, and action theory. Applications to contemporary issues in the field of bioethics exemplify the meaning and function of different foundational frameworks and the relation between theory and practice in theological ethics.
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BIOE 6700 Foundations of Philosophical Ethics
3 semester hours
This course introduces students to the theories and problems of moral philosophy, comprising both a historical and a systematic component. Main versions of ethics will be studies, including natural law and virtue ethics, deontological and consequentialist theories. Students will understand the function and importance of ethical frameworks for the articulation of bioethical problems.
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BIOE 6999 Independent Studies
1 TO 3 semester hours
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Biology (BIOL) |
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BIOL 111 General Biology I Lab
2 semester hours
A survey of the three domains of life and exploration of the morphological, functional, and environmental factors that influence their biodiversity.
Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering majors only.
Lecture, 1 hour; Laboratory, 4 hours.
Prerequisite: BIOL 101 or concurrent enrollment.
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BIOL 112 General Biology II Lab
2 semester hours
An experimental approach to biology with emphasis on design, execution, and analysis to answer biological questions.
Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering majors only.
Lecture, 1 hour; Laboratory 4 hours.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 102 or concurrent enrollment, and BIOL 111 .
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BIOL 194 Introduction to Research
0 TO 4 semester hours
An introduction to scientific research methodology: information gathering, data analysis, laboratory research practice in a faculty laboratory.
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BIOL 198 Special Studies
1 TO 4 semester hours
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BIOL 199 Independent Studies
1 TO 4 semester hours
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BIOL 216 Medical Microbiology
3 semester hours
The major features and biology of microorganisms (viruses, bacteria, protozoans, fungi), including reproduction, virulence, and control both inside and outside the host. Emphasis will be placed on the interactions of microorganisms with humans, especially those microorganisms that cause disease and the host’s immune response during infection.
Lecture, 3 hours.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 111 , CHEM 110 , and CHEM 111 .
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 264 The Marine Environment
3 semester hours
An introduction to marine biology, including its history, different communities and the animals and plants that occur in marine ecosystems, and their economic importance.
Prerequisite: or higher, or placement into or higher.
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BIOL 266 Sacred and Medicinal Plant Use
3 semester hours
The sacred and medicinal use of plants and hallucinogenic fungi by traditional and modern cultures, including the biological basis for their use.
Prerequisite: MATH 101 or higher, or placement into MATH 106 or higher.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Nature of Science, Technology, and Mathematics.
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BIOL 271 Human Reproduction and Development
3 semester hours
The biological aspects of human reproduction, including the basic reproductive system, genetics, fetal development, nutrition, pregnancy, birth, and neonatal development.
Prerequisite: MATH 101 or higher, or placement into MATH 106 or higher.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Nature of Science, Technology, and Mathematics.
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BIOL 272 Human Drug Use
3 semester hours
The physiological, psychological, and social effects of the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other therapeutic and recreational drugs.
Prerequisite: MATH 101 or higher, or placement into MATH 106 or higher.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Nature of Science, Technology, and Mathematics.
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BIOL 275 Human Genetics
3 semester hours
Basic Mendelian genetics and the application to individual risk assessments. Population genetics and the implications of artificial selection. Modern molecular genetics and medical applications.
Prerequisite: MATH 101 or higher, or placement into MATH 106 or higher.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Nature of Science, Technology, and Mathematics; Flag: Quantitative Literacy.
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BIOL 278 Tropical Marine Ecology
3 semester hours
Field studies of the tropical marine habitats in Isla Roatan, Honduras. This includes the examination of the ecology and biology of coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds, and intertidal communities.
Summer only–Study Abroad Program.
Prerequisite: MATH 101 or higher, or placement into MATH 106 or higher. Open water SCUBA certification highly recommended.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Nature of Science, Technology, and Mathematics.
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BIOL 294 Independent Research
0 TO 4 semester hours
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BIOL 298 Special Studies
1 TO 4 semester hours
University Core fulfilled: Flag: Information Literacy.
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BIOL 299 Independent Studies
1 TO 4 semester hours
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BIOL 309 Applied Plant Ecology
3 semester hours
An integrative course focusing on the foundational role of plants in ecosystems and how ecological principles and theory can be applied to solving local and global conservation and resource management problems.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 102 , and BIOL 201 .
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 311 Plant Interactions
3 semester hours
Study of various ways in which plants interact with other organisms, such as herbivores, pathogens, symbiotic bacteria and fungi, and the outcomes of that interplay. Examination of the physiological, biochemical, and genetic bases of these interactions and how understanding the chemical and molecular communication that takes place has implications for improvement of agriculture and human health.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 102 , BIOL 112 , BIOL 201 , BIOL 202 ; CHEM 220 .
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 312 Field Botany
4 semester hours
The identification, distribution, evolution, and ecological relationships of the native plants of Southern California.
Lecture, 3 hours; Laboratory 4 hours; 4 weekend field trips.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 102 , BIOL 111 , BIOL 112 ; CHEM 110 , CHEM 111 ; MATH 122 or MATH 131 .
University Core fulfilled: Flag: Engaged Learning.
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 314 Tropical Ecology
4 semester hours
An introduction to Neotropical biodiversity, natural history and conservation, as well as an examination of the diversity of tropical species interactions in an international field setting.
Travel embedded course–lab travels to Costa Rica during Spring break.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 102 , BIOL 111 , BIOL 112 ; CHEM 221 ; MATH 122 or MATH 131 .
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 315 World Vegetation Ecology
3 semester hours
Characteristics and distribution of the major vegetation types of the world, emphasizing environmental conditions, plant adaptations and ecosystem processes.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 102 , BIOL 111 ; CHEM 110 , CHEM 112 .
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 318 Principles of Ecology
4 semester hours
An exploration of the interactions between organisms and their biotic and abiotic environment across population, community, and ecosystem levels.
Lecture, 3 hours; Laboratory, 4 hours; weekend field trips.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 102 , BIOL 111 , BIOL 112 , BIOL 201 ; MATH 122 or MATH 131 .
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 322 Urban Ecology Lab
1 semester hours
An inquiry-based investigation into the biophysical and human social dimensions of a local urban ecosystem, with a focus on group project development. At least one Saturday trip.
Prerequisites: BIOL 111 , BIOL 112 and BIOL 321 , or concurrent enrollment.
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 328 Tropical Marine Ecology
3 semester hours
Field studies of the tropical marine habitats on Isla Roatán, Honduras. This includes the examination of physical, chemical, and ecological aspects as applied to coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds, and intertidal communities.
Summer only–Study Abroad Program.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 102 , BIOL 111 , BIOL 112 ; CHEM 110 , CHEM 112 . Open water SCUBA certification highly recommended.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Nature of Science, Technology, and Mathematics; Flag: Engaged Learning.
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 329 Marine Ecology of Baja, California
3 semester hours
Field studies of subtropical, intertidal and subtidal habitats along the coasts of Baja, California peninsula.
Emphasis on community structure.
Summer only. Entire course held at the LMU Baja, California Biological Station.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 102 , BIOL 111 , BIOL 112 ; CHEM 110 , CHEM 112 .
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 330 Embryology and Development
4 semester hours
The development of chordates with emphasis on experimental embryology and underlying molecular mechanisms.
Lecture, 3 hours; Laboratory, 4 hours.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 111 , BIOL 112 , BIOL 201 , BIOL 202 ; CHEM 222 , CHEM 223 .
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 333 Biology of Mammals
4 semester hours
Examination of physical, physiological, and ecological characteristics of mammals, including taxonomic relationships, feeding and reproductive strategies, and local and world distribution of mammalian orders and families.
Lecture, 3 hours; Laboratory, 4 hours; Weekend field trips.
For majors only.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 102 , BIOL 111 , BIOL 112 ; CHEM 110 , CHEM 112 .
University Core fulfilled: Flags: Engaged Learning, Writing.
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 334 Invertebrate Zoology
4 semester hours
A study of the anatomy, physiology, behavior, and ecology of invertebrates and the evolutionary relationships within and among the invertebrate phyla.
Lecture, 3 hours; Laboratory, 4 hours.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 102 , BIOL 111 , BIOL 112 ; CHEM 110 , CHEM 112 .
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 335 Comparative Anatomy
4 semester hours
A comparative study of the vertebrate structures and their significance in terms of their evolution and function.
Lecture, 3 hours; Laboratory, 4 hours.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 102 , BIOL 111 , BIOL 112 ; CHEM 110 , CHEM 112 .
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 338 Animal Behavior
4 semester hours
Study of the evolutionary aspects of behavioral ecology including foraging strategies, social competition, communication, sexual selection, mating systems, cooperation, and social organization.
Lecture, 3 hours; Laboratory, 4 hours.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 102 , BIOL 111 , BIOL 112 .
University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 340 Embryology
3 semester hours
This class delves into the tissue and cell movements (morphogenesis), into the cellular differentiation pathways, and the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that produce form and function in chordate embryos.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 111 , BIOL 112 , BIOL 201 , BIOL 202 ; CHEM 222 , CHEM 223 .
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 341 Embryology Lab
1 semester hours
The study of embryology through development histologically, through dissection and experimental embryology. Observational skills will be improved through hand-drawn reproductions, learning to recognize embryonic features and stages and become familiar with histology and anatomical terminology in sections. Students will design, conduct, make observations and document, analyze, and write up an approved, novel experimental embryology project of their own choosing.
Laboratory, 4 hours.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 111 , BIOL 112 , BIOL 201 , BIOL 202 , BIOL 340 or concurrent enrollment; CHEM 222 , CHEM 223 .
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 343 Developmental Biology
3 semester hours
Introduction to the molecular and cellular mechanisms governing the development of multicellular animals, with attention to genetic control. The biology of models systems is emphasized.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 111 , BIOL 112 , BIOL 201 , and BIOL 202 .
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 344 Developmental Biology Lab
1 semester hours
A survey course highlighting developmental principles through observation and experimentation with a variety of animal systems. Topics include fertilization, gastrulation, patterning, organogenesis, and regeneration.
Laboratory, 4 hours.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 111 , BIOL 112 , BIOL 201 , BIOL 202 , and BIOL 343 or concurrent enrollment.
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 351 General Physiology
3 semester hours
Introduction to physiological principles and concepts with emphasis on organ systems.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 102 , BIOL 201 ; CHEM 110 , CHEM 112 .
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 352 General Physiology Lab
1 semester hours
Laboratory experiments in general physiology.
Laboratory, 4 hours; Data analysis, 1 hour.
Prerequisites: BIOL 111 , BIOL 112 , and BIOL 351 or BIOL 357 , or concurrent enrollment.
Cannot be taken if already completed BIOL 360 .
University Core fulfilled: Flags: Quantitative Reasoning, Writing.
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 353 Plant Physiology
3 semester hours
Introduction to plant function, including photosynthesis, mineral nutrition, water relations, metabolism, and growth processes.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 201 ; CHEM 220 , CHEM 221 ; MATH 122 or MATH 131 .
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 354 Plant Physiology Laboratory
1 semester hours
Laboratory experiments in plant physiology.
Laboratory, 4 hours.
Prerequisites: BIOL 111 , BIOL 112 , and BIOL 353 or concurrent enrollment.
University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.
Consent of instructor required.
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BIOL 355 Plants, Pharmacy, and Medicine
3 semester hours
The historical, ethnobotanical, and chemical basis of medicinal plant use, plant-based pharmaceuticals, and their physiological efficacy.
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 , BIOL 102 , BIOL 201 ; CHEM 220 ; MATH 122 or MATH 131 .
University Core fulfilled: Flag: Oral Skills.
Consent of instructor required.
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