All IB Courses
The list below shows all courses offered by SIB or by other departments with an SIB cross-listing, both graduate and undergraduate, in numerical order. Courses at the 100, 200, or 300 level may be taken for credit by undergraduate students only. (Graduate students may enroll but will not receive academic credit for the courses.) Courses at the 400 level may be taken for credit by both graduate and undergraduate students. Courses at the 500 level may be taken by graduate students only. For courses that offer graduate credit, graduate students earn 1/4 unit credit per hour of listed credit.
Use the (orange) menu at the left to view a list of courses that fill area requirements for the undergraduate major or a list of additional approved courses for the IB major. Also at the left is a list of advanced courses on a two-year schedule.
Separate lists of courses required for the IB major and for courses required for the IB Honors concentration are also available. Admittance to Honors is by interview in the second semester of the freshman year. Graduate students should look under their specific departments or programs (blue menu at left) for a list of course requirement specific to their units.
Other University of Illinois information about courses, including current class schedules and catalogs of all available UI courses, may be found on the University of Illinois web site.
| Course No. | Cross-list | Course Title | Credit (hours) | Offered Sort By Semester |
IB Area or Additional Courses1 |
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| IB 100 | Biological Sciences | 3 | fall and spring
face to face |
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| IB 100 ONL | Biological Sciences | 3 | fall, spring online |
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| IB 103 | Introduction to Plant Biology | 4 | spring | ||
| IB 104 | Animal Biology (involves vertebrate dissection in some labs) |
4 | fall | ||
| IB 105 | Environmental Biology | 3 | fall and spring face to face |
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| IB 105 ONL
Summer Fall |
Environmental Biology | 3 | fall, spring online |
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| IB 106 | ESES 126 GEOL 106 |
Extinction: Dinosaurs to Dodos | 3 | fall | |
| IB 107 | Global Warming, Biofuels, Food | 3 | fall | ||
| IB 109 | Insects and People with lab - 4) |
3 or 4 | spring | ||
| IB 150 | Organismal & Evolutionary Biol Integrative Biology Merit Program for Emerging Scholars |
4 | fall and spring face to face |
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| IB 150 | Organismal & Evolutionary Biol | 4 | summer 2013 online |
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| IB 151 | Organismal & Evol Biol Lab | 1 | fall and spring | ||
| IB 199 | Undergraduate Open Seminar | 0 to 5 | variable | ||
| IB 202 | Anatomy and Physiology
Integrative Biology Merit Program for Emerging Scholars |
4 | spring | ||
| IB 203 |
Ecology
Integrative Biology Merit Program for Emerging Scholars |
4 | fall | Meets Advanced Composition Requirement | |
| IB 204 |
Genetics
Integrative Biology Merit Program for Emerging Scholars |
3 or 4 | fall | ||
| IB 220 | CPSC 270 NRES 270 |
Applied Entomology | 3 | fall | |
| IB 270 | Evolution of Molecules and Cells
(IB Honors students only) |
5 | fall | ||
| IB 271 | Organismal Biology (involves vertebrate dissection in some labs; IB Honors students only) |
5 | spring | Meets Advanced Composition Requirement | |
| IB 299 | Undergraduate Special Course | 0 to 5 | variable | ||
| IB 302 | Evolution | 4 | spring | ||
| IB 329 | ANSC 366 ANTH 342 |
Animal Behavior (formerly IB 429) |
3 | fall | A2 |
| IB 335 | Systematics of Plants | 4 | spring | A1* | |
| IB 348 | NRES 348 | Fish and Wildlife Ecology | 3 | fall | AA |
| IB 360 | ANTH 360 |
Evolution and Human Health | 3 | fall | A1 |
| IB 361 | ANTH 361 |
Ecology and Human Health | 3 | spring | A2 |
| IB 362 | Marine Biology | 3 | Not to be offered in the near future | A1 | |
| IB 363 | ANTH 378 | Plants and Their Uses | 3 | spring | AA |
| IB 364 | Bioinformatics & Human Genome | 3 | summer | Online course only | |
| IB 368 | NRES 368 | Vertebrate Natural History | 4 | fall | A1* |
| IB 372 | Ecology and Evolution (IB Honors students only) |
5 | fall | ||
| IB 390 | Introductory Research | 1 to 5 | fall and spring | ||
| IB 401 | Introduction to Entomology (Insect collection for 4 hr) |
3 or 4 | fall | A1* | |
| IB 403 | ANTH 446 | Behavioral Inference & Fossils | 3 or 4 | not to be offered in the near future | |
| IB 404 | Comparative Genomics of Eukaryotes | 2 | spring, even years | A3 | |
| IB 405 | Ecological Genetics | 3 | spring, odd years |
A2 | |
| IB 406 | Evolution of Adaptive Systems | 3 | fall | A1 | |
| IB 410 | Evolution and Development | 3 | spring | A1 | |
| IB 416 | ANSC 446 | Population Genetics | 3 or 4 | fall | |
| IB 420 | CPSC 484 | Plant Physiology | 3 | spring | A3 |
| IB 421 | BIOP 432 CPSC 489 |
Photosynthesis | 3 | fall (alternate years) | AA |
| IB 424 | Plant Development | 3 | fall, odd years | A3 | |
| IB 426 | Env and Evol Physl of Animals | 3 | fall | A3 | |
| IB 427 | Insect Physiology | 4 | spring, even years | A3* | |
| IB 428 | ANTH 443 | Primate Form and Behavior | 3(U) - 4(G) | spring | |
| IB 431 | Behavioral Ecology | 3 | fall, odd years | A2 | |
| IB 432 | ANTH 432 NEUR 432 PSYC 432 |
Genes and Behavior | 3 | spring | A2 |
| IB 433 | ANTH 434 | Comparative Anatomy (involves vertebrate dissection in some labs) |
5 | spring | A1* |
| IB 437 | ANTH 437 | Primate Behavioral Endocrinology | 3 (U) - 4 (G) | not to be offered in the near future | |
| IB 439 | ANTH 436 ESES 439 GEOG 436 NRES 441 |
Biogeography | 3 | spring, even years | A2 |
| IB 440 | CPSC 431 NRES 431 |
Plants and Global Change | 3 | spring, odd years | A2 |
| IB 443 | Evolutionary Ecology | 3 | fall, odd years | A2 | |
| IB 444 | Insect Ecology (lecture only - 3, with lab - 4) |
3 or 4 | fall, even years | A2* | |
| IB 445 | Chemical Ecology | 3 | fall, even years | A2 | |
| IB 447 | Field Ecology | 1 | spring | ||
| IB 449 | Limnology (Aquatic Ecology) (lecture only - 3, with lab - 4) |
3 or 4 | fall, odd years | A2* | |
| IB 450 | CEE 432 | Stream Ecology | 3 | not offered in near future | |
| IB 451 | CPSC 436 ENVS 420 |
Conservation Biology | 4 | spring, odd years | A2* |
| IB 452 |
NRES 462 ESE 452 |
Ecosystem Ecology | 3 | fall, odd years | A2 |
| IB 453 | NRES 452 | Community Ecology | 3 | fall, even years | A2 |
| IB 461 | NRES 461 | Ornithology (Birds) | 4 | spring | A1* |
| IB 462 | Mammalogy (Mammals) (involves vertebrate dissection in some labs) |
4 | fall, odd years | A1* | |
| IB 463 | Ichthyology (Fishes) | 4 | fall, even years | A1* | |
| IB 464 | Herpetology (Reptiles/Amphibians) | 4 | spring even years (not to be offered spring 2014) |
A1* | |
| IB 467 | Principles of Systematics | 4 | fall, odd years | AA* | |
| IB 468 | Insect Classification and Evol | 4 | fall, odd years | AA* | |
| IB 471 | General Mycology (Fungi) | 4 | fall, even years | A1* | |
| IB 472 | CPSC 462 | Plant Molecular Biology | 1 | fall (1st half), even years | A3 |
| IB 473 | CPSC 467 | Plant Genomics | 1 | fall (2nd half), even years | A3 |
| IB 474 | CPSC 468 | Plant Proteomics-Metabolomics | 1 | fall even years | A3 |
| IB 477 | CPSC 466 | Genomics for Plant Improvement | 3 | fall | |
| IB 478 | CPSC 452 | Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics | 3 | fall 2012 | |
| IB 481 | Biology of Disease Vectors | 4 | spring, even years | A2* | |
| IB 482 | CPSC 479 | Insect Pest Management | 3 | fall, odd years | A2* |
| IB 483 | CPSC 475 NRES 443 |
Insect Pathology | 4 | not to be offered in the near future | A2* |
| IB 485 | CHLH 461 ENVS 431 |
Environ Toxicology & Health | 3 | spring | A2 |
| IB 486 | ENVS 433 VB 434 |
Pesticide Toxicology | 3(U) or 4(G) | spring, odd years | A2 |
| IB 487 | ANSC 448 STAT 458 |
Math Modeling in Life Sciences | 3 or 4 | spring | |
| IB 490 | Independent Study | 1 to 5 | fall, spring, and summer | ||
| IB 491 | ANSC 449 CPSC 448 GEOG 468 |
Biological Modeling | 3(U) or 4(G) | fall | |
| IB 493 | NRES 493 | Statistical Ecology | 4 | not to be offered in the near future | |
| IB 495 | PHIL 473 | Philosophy of Biology | 3 or 4 | fall | |
| IB 496 | Special Courses |
1 to 5(U)or |
See Special Courses website | ||
| IB 503 | Methods/Application in Biotechnology | 3 | spring | ||
| IB 504 | Genomic Analysis of Insects | 3 | spring, odd years | ||
| IB 505 | CPSC 567 | Bioinformatics and Systems Biology | 4 | spring, odd years | |
| IB 506 | ANSC 542 CPSC 569 | Applied Bioinformatics | 4 | spring, even years | |
| IB 507 | ANSC 545 |
Statistical Genomics | 3 or 4 | spring | |
| IB 508 | PATH 528 | Multivariate Biostatistics | 4 | fall | |
| IB 509 | NRES 509 | Statistical Modeling | 4 | not to be offered in the near future | |
| IB 510 | Discussions in Plant Biology | 0 or 1 | fall and spring | ||
| IB 513 | Disc in Plant Physiology | 1 | fall and spring | ||
| IB 516 | NRES 516 | Ecosystem Biogeochemistry | 4 | spring, odd years | |
| IB 518 | Disc in Plant Ecol | 1 | fall and spring | ||
| IB 519 | Disc in Photosynthesis | 0 or 1 | fall and spring | ||
| IB 524 | CPSC 588 HORT 588 |
Plant Biochemistry | 4 | fall, odd years | |
| IB 526 | Seminar in Entomology | 0 or 1 | fall and spring | ||
| IB 542 | CPSC 538 | Environmental Plant Physiology | 4 | not to be offered in fall 2014 | |
| IB 543 | ANTH 543 | Seminar in Primate Ecology | 2 or 4 | fall, even years | |
| IB 545 | Fish and Wildlife Ecol Seminar | 2 | |||
| IB 546 | Topics in Ecology & Evolution | 1 | fall and spring | ||
| IB 574 | CPSC 574 NRES 574 |
Insect Resistance Management | 2 | spring | |
| IB 590 | Individual Topics | 2 to 12 | fall, spring, summer | ||
| BIOL 599 | Thesis Research | 0 to 16 | fall, spring, summer | ||
| ENT 599 | Thesis Research | 0 to 16 | fall, spring, summer | ||
| PBIO 599 | Thesis Research | 0 to 16 | fall, spring, summer |
1IB Area or Additional Courses as it relates to the undergraduate degree in Integrative Biology.
A1 = Area I course (Organismal & Evolutionary Biology),
A2 = Area II course (Behavior, Ecology & the Environment),
A3 = Area III course (Integrative Anatomy, Physiology, & Molecular Biology), and
AA = additional approved IB course.
* indicates a laboratory or field component.
# (G) = graduate credit, (U) = undergraduate credit