All students must meet the Degree and University Requirements.

All students must meet the Catamount Core Curriculum Requirements.

All students must meet the College Requirements.

Major Requirements

At least 29 credits in major courses, plus at least 14 credits in ancillary courses, including:

Requirement Description		Credits
CORE REQUIREMENTS. At least 15 credits.
BIOL 1075	Frontiers in Zoology	1
BIOLOGY. Choose 1 of the following options:		8
Option A (recommended):
BCOR 1400 & BCOR 1450	Exploring Biology 1 and Exploring Biology 2
Option B:
BIOL 1000 & BIOL 1005	AP Biology 1 and AP Biology 2
Option C:
BIOL 1000 & BCOR 1425	AP Biology 1 and Accelerated Biology
Option D:
BIOL 1400 & BIOL 1450	Principles of Biology 1 and Principles of Biology 2
BCOR 2300	Genetics	3
Choose 1 of the following:		3-4
BCOR 2100	Ecology and Evolution
BCOR 2500	Molecular & Cell Biology w/lab
or BCOR 2505	Molecular & Cell Biology
ANCILLARY REQUIREMENTS. At least 14 credits.
CHEMISTRY.		8
CHEM 1400 & CHEM 1450	General Chemistry 1 and General Chemistry 2
CALCULUS AND STATISTICS.		6-7
MATH 1212	Fundamentals of Calculus I	3-4
or MATH 1234	Calculus I
STAT 1410	Basic Statistical Methods 1	3
QUANTITATIVE DISCIPLINES. At least 1 additional course with a MA or QD Catamount Core Curriculum designation which commonly include:		3
CHEM 1580, CHEM 2580, CHEM 2585, GEOG 2510, GEOG 2520, GEOL 2525, MATH 1224, MATH 1248, PHYS 1450, PHYS 1650
Note that most professional schools (e.g., medicine, dentistry, veterinary, physical therapy) require the equivalent of one year each of Calculus, Organic Chemistry, and Physics.
ADVANCED ELECTIVES. At least 14 credits.		14
11-14 credits of electives at the 3000-level or above		11-14
BIOL numbered 3100 to 3699
BIOL numbered 4100 to 4699
BIOL numbered 5020 to 5030
ANTH 3560, ASCI 3150, ASCI 3160, ASCI 3180, ASCI 3200, ASCI 3600, MMG 3230, WFB 3240, WFB 4320, WFB 4750, WFB 4830
1 additional course/3-4 credits from the following:		3-4
BIOL numbered 2100 to 2699
ANTH 2440, ASCI 2600, BCOR 2100, BCOR 2500, BCOR 2505, BIOC 3001, BIOC 3005, BIOC 3006, BIOC 3007, MMG 3010, MMG 3200, MMG 3220, MMG 3250, MMG 3300, MMG 3320, MMG 3330, SEP 4280, SEP 4500, WFB 2300, WFB 2310, WFB 2410
BIOL numbered 3100 to 3699
BIOL numbered 4100 to 4699
BIOL numbered 5020 to 5030
ANTH 3560, ASCI 3150, ASCI 3160, ASCI 3180, ASCI 3200, ASCI 3600, MMG 3230, WFB 3240, WFB 4320, WFB 4750, WFB 4830
Additional courses, including Special Topics and graduate-level courses, may be accepted as electives with prior approval from the Biology Department. Graduate courses are often open to upper-level undergraduate students with instructor permission.

Restrictions

Students completing the B.A. in Zoology may not also receive the B.S in Biological Science in either the College of Arts & Sciences or the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, or the B.S. in Zoology.

Pre-/co-requisites

Introductory and intermediate courses for various subject areas may be necessary to reach some of the courses that can be applied to the major for the quantitative requirement or as Advanced Electives.

Other Information

In the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), only one course may overlap between a major and a minor or between two CAS majors.

Courses for the major and/or its pre/co-requisites that are cross-listed in the catalog or schedule of courses under another course subject code may be taken under that other subject code and still count for these requirements.

With the approval of the chair/director, courses that applied to the major in previous years but have since been deactivated may be applied to this year’s major requirements if they are reactivated.

For a Bachelor of Arts degree, no more than 45 credits in courses with the same departmental subject code may be used toward completion of the 120 credits required for graduation.

At least half of the credits used to complete major requirements must be taken at the University of Vermont.