SIB Area Courses
The list below shows the SIB courses that fulfill area requirements in the IB major and the area(s) into which they fall. Click here to see the list of IB Advising Options and links to courses suggested for each.
| Course No. | Course Title | Credit (hours) | Offered |
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Area I: Organismal & Evolutionary Biology |
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| IB 335 | Systematics of Plants* | 4 | spring |
| IB 360 | Evolution and Human Health | 3 | fall |
| IB 362 | Marine Biology | 3 | spring |
| IB 368 | Vertebrate Natural History* | 4 | fall |
| IB 401 | Introduction to Entomology* | 3 or 4 | fall (some summers) |
| IB 406 | Evolution of Adaptive Systems | 3 | fall |
| IB 409 | Evolution of Infectious Disease | 3 | not to be offered in near future |
| IB 410 | Evolution and Development | 3 | spring, odd years |
| IB 461 | Ornithology (Birds)* | 4 | spring |
| IB 462 | Mammalogy (Mammals)* (involves vertebrate dissection in some labs) |
4 | fall, odd years |
| IB 463 | Ichthyology (Fishes)* | 4 | fall, even years |
| IB 464 | Herpetology (Reptiles/Amphibians)* | 4 | spring, even years |
| IB 471 | General Mycology(Aquatic Ecology)* | 4 | fall, even years |
| MCB 300 | Microbiology | 3 | fall, spring, summer |
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Area II: Behavior, Ecology, & the Environment |
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| IB 329 | Animal Behavior | 3 | To be offered Spring 2012 & Fall 2013 |
| IB 361 | Ecology and Human Health | 3 | spring |
| IB 405 | Ecological Genetics | 3 | fall, even years (not offered fall 2010) |
| IB 431 | Behavioral Ecology | 3 | fall, odd years |
| IB 432 | Genes and Behavior | 3 | spring |
| IB 439 | Biogeography | 3 | spring, even years |
| IB 440 | Plants and Global Change | 3 | spring |
| IB 443 | Evolutionary Ecology | 3 | fall, odd years |
| IB 444 | Insect Ecology** | 3 or 4 | fall, even years |
| IB 445 | Chemical Ecology | 3 | fall, even years |
| IB 449 | Limnology (Aquatic Ecology)* (lecture only - 3, |
3 or 4 | fall, odd years |
| IB 451 | Conservation Biology* | 4 | spring, odd years |
| IB 452 | Ecosystem Ecology | 3 | fall, odd years |
| IB 453 | Community Ecology | 3 | fall, even years |
| IB 481 | Biology of Disease Vectors* | 4 | spring, even years |
| IB 482 | Insect Pest Management* | 3 | fall, odd years |
| IB 483 | Insect Pathology* | 4 | spring, every 3rd year |
| IB 485 | Environ Toxicology & Health | 3 | spring |
| IB 486 | Pesticide Toxicology | 3 (U) or 4 (G) | spring, odd years |
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Area III: Integrative Anatomy, Physiology, & Molecular Biology |
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| IB 402 | Molecular Evolution | 3 | not to be offered in near future |
| IB 404 | Comparative Eukaryotic of Genomics | 2 | spring, (to be offered spring 2012) |
| IB 420 | Plant Physiology | 3 | spring |
| IB 424 | Plant Development | 3 | fall, odd years |
| IB 426 | Env and Evol Physl of Animals | 3 | fall |
| IB 433 | Comparative Anatomy* (involves vertebrate dissection in some labs) |
5 | spring |
| IB 427 | Insect Physiology* | 4 | spring, even years |
| IB 472 | Plant Molecular Biology*** | 1 | fall (1st half) even years |
| IB 473 | Plant Genomics*** | 1 | fall (2nd half) even years |
| IB 474 | Plant Proteomics*** | 1 | fall (1st half) even years |
| IB 475 | Plant Metabolomics*** | 1 | fall (2nd half) even years |
| MCB 402 | Sys & Integrative Physiology | 3 | spring |
| MCB 314 | Introduction to Neurobiology | 3 | fall |
1IB Area or Additional Courses as it relates to the undergraduate degree in Integrative Biology.
* = Course with field or laboratory component
** = Course may be taken with or without laboratory
*** = Two of these four courses are required to meet the Area III requirement