Biology at Iowa State University

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 71 BIOL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 57 more BIOL courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on BIOL, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

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.

• 7 courses deep, ending at BIOL 4570L

  1. CHEM 1630College Chemistry
  2. BIOL 2120Principles of Biology II
  3. BIOL 3510Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
  4. BIOL 3510LComparative Vertebrate Anatomy Laboratory
  5. BIOL 4570Herpetology
  6. WFCE 4570LHerpetology Laboratory
  7. BIOL 4570LHerpetology Laboratory

• 7 courses deep, ending at BIOL 4580L

  1. CHEM 1630College Chemistry
  2. BIOL 2120Principles of Biology II
  3. BIOL 3510Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy

• 7 courses deep, ending at BIOL 4590L

  1. CHEM 1630College Chemistry
  2. BIOL 2120Principles of Biology II
  3. BIOL 3510Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy

• 6 courses deep, ending at BIOL 4010

  1. MATH 1510Calculus for Business and Social Sciences
  2. MATH 1600Survey of Calculus
  3. BIOL 4010Bioinformatics of Sequences

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for BIOL yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under BIOL yet.

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Department events

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