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 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 | spring |
| IB 410 | Evolution and Development | 3 | spring, odd years |
| IB 433 | Comparative Anatomy* (involves vertebrate dissection in some labs) |
5 | spring |
| IB 461 | Ornithology* | 4 | spring |
| IB 462 | Mammalogy* (involves vertebrate dissection in some labs) |
4 | fall, odd years |
| IB 463 | Ichthyology* | 4 | fall, even years |
| IB 464 | Herpetology* | 4 | spring, even years |
| IB 466 | Invertebrate Zoology* | 4 | spring, odd years |
| IB 469 | Evolutionary Survey of Plants* | 4 | fall (not offered fall 2009) |
| IB 470 | Field Botany* | 5 | summer, even years |
| IB 471 | General Mycology* | 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 405 | Ecological Genetics | 3 | fall, even years (not offered fall 2010) |
| IB 429 | Animal Behavior | 3 | spring 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* | 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* | 4 | fall, odd years |
| IB 483 | Insect Pathology* | 4 | spring, every 3rd year (spring 2012) |
| IB 484 | Biological Control* | 3 | spring, odd years |
| IB 485 | Environmental Toxicology | 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 334 | Organismal Biology of Plants | 3 | spring (not offered spring 2010) |
| IB 402 | Molecular Evolution | 3 | fall |
| IB 404 | Comparative Eukaryotic of Genomics | 2 | spring, (will be offered spring 2010) |
| IB 420 | Plant Physiology | 3 | spring |
| IB 423 | Plant Anatomy* | 4 | spring |
| IB 424 | Plant Development | 3 | fall, odd years |
| IB 426 | Env and Evol Physl of Animals | 3 | fall |
| 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 334 | Functional Human Anatomy* | 5 | fall, spring, summer |
| MCB 402 | Sys & Integrative Physiology | 3 | spring |
| NEUR 404 | 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


