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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog (Revised) 
    
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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog (Revised)

Biology Minor

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Interested students may pursue a biology minor by completing two 100‑level biology courses with labs, two 300‑level biology courses with labs, and two additional lab‑based courses selected from one 200‑level, one 300‑level, and one 400‑level option, for a total of 24 credit hours. Students must maintain a C average, and no course‑lab combination may count toward more than one category.

The Departmental requirements are as follows:

Total: 8 credits

Any two (2) 300-level courses with the lab

Total: 8 credits

Any two (2) of these three options (200-level, 300-level, or 400-level biology courses with the labs):

Total: 8 credits

Total: 24 credits

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