BIO at Northeastern Illinois University

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 BIO coursework.

• BIO 301Cell Biologyopens 26 courses (21 directly)
• CHEM 212General Chemistry II.opens 12 courses (3 directly)
• BIO 303General Geneticsopens 10 courses (10 directly)
• CHEM 231Organic Chemistry I.opens 9 courses (6 directly)
• PHYS 206LUniversity Physics I With Labopens 5 courses (5 directly)
• PHYS 201LCollege Physics I With Labopens 4 courses (4 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 BIO 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 100 BIO and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 24 more BIO 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 BIO. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at BIO 372

  1. CHEM 211General Chemistry I.
  2. CHEM 212General Chemistry II.
  3. CHEM 231Organic Chemistry I.
  4. BIO 362Biochemistry
  5. BIO 372Biochemistry Of Metabolism

• 4 courses deep, ending at BIO 315

  1. MATH 187Calculus I.
  2. PHYS 201LCollege Physics I With Lab
  3. PHYS 202LCollege Physics II With Lab

• 4 courses deep, ending at BIO 319

  1. BIO 201General Biology I.
  2. BIO 301Cell Biology
  3. BIO 318Human Anatomy And Physiology I.

• 4 courses deep, ending at BIO 342

  1. BIO 201General Biology I.
  2. BIO 301Cell Biology
  3. BIO 341General Microbiology

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for BIO yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under BIO yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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