BIOS at University of Notre Dame

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 BIOS coursework.

• CHEM 10182Organic Structure and Mechanismopens 54 courses (3.4 directly)
• CHEM 10172Organic Structure and Reactivityopens 53 courses (2.4 directly)
• CHEM 10122General Chemistry: Fundamental Principles and Biological Processesopens 50 courses (1.5 directly)
• BIOS 20201General Biology Aopens 48 courses (7.1 directly)
• BIOS 10162Biological Sciences IIopens 40 courses (9.3 directly)
• BIOS 20202General Biology Bopens 40 courses (9 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 BIOS 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 103 BIOS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 217 more BIOS 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 BIOS, 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 BIOS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 7 courses deep, ending at BIOS 40202

  1. CHEM 10171Introduction to Chemical Principles
  2. CHEM 10122General Chemistry: Fundamental Principles and Biological Processes
  3. BIOS 20201General Biology A
  4. BIOS 20250Classical and Molecular Genetics
  5. BIOS 20241Molecular Cellular Biology
  6. BIOS 30338Advanced Neurobiology
  7. BIOS 40202Developmental Neuroscience: Experience Dependent Plasticity

• 7 courses deep, ending at BIOS 40416

  1. CHEM 10171Introduction to Chemical Principles
  2. CHEM 10122General Chemistry: Fundamental Principles and Biological Processes
  3. BIOS 20201General Biology A

• 6 courses deep, ending at BIOS 30301

  1. CHEM 10171Introduction to Chemical Principles
  2. CHEM 10122General Chemistry: Fundamental Principles and Biological Processes
  3. BIOS 20201General Biology A

• 6 courses deep, ending at BIOS 31312

  1. CHEM 10171Introduction to Chemical Principles
  2. CHEM 10122General Chemistry: Fundamental Principles and Biological Processes
  3. BIOS 20201General Biology A

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for BIOS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under BIOS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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