Biology at Hope College

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate BIOL coursework.

• BIOL 102AOrganisms and Environments Pre-Kindergarten through 3rd Gradesopens 1 course (1 directly)
• BIOL 348Advanced Cell Biologyopens 1 course (1 directly)
• CHEM 311Biochemistry Iopens 1 course (0.3 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate BIOL work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 43 BIOL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 35 more BIOL courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in BIOL. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at BIOL 102B

  1. EDUC 230Science and Engineering Practices and Pedagogy for the Elementary Teacher
  2. BIOL 102AOrganisms and Environments Pre-Kindergarten through 3rd Grades
  3. BIOL 102BOrganisms and Environments 3rd through 6th Grades

• 3 courses deep, ending at BIOL 335

  1. CHEM 231Organic Chemistry II
  2. CHEM 311Biochemistry I
  3. BIOL 335Neurochemistry and Disease

• 3 courses deep, ending at BIOL 349

  1. BIOL 105General Biology I
  2. BIOL 348Advanced Cell Biology
  3. BIOL 349Advanced Cell Biology Laboratory

• 2 courses deep, ending at BIOL 123

  1. CHEM 122Day 1 Watershed Laboratory I
  2. BIOL 123Day 1 Watershed Laboratory II

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for BIOL yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under BIOL yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

Biology does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Hope campus feed.