Biology at San Francisco 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 110 BIOL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 67 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 431

  1. MATH 199Pre-Calculus (Units: 4)
  2. CHEM 115General Chemistry I (Units: 4)
  3. CHEM 215General Chemistry II (Units: 4)
  4. CHEM 233Organic Chemistry I (Units: 3)
  5. BIOL 401General Microbiology (Units: 3)
  6. BIOL 430Medical Microbiology (Units: 3)
  7. BIOL 431Medical Microbiology Laboratory (Units: 2)

• 7 courses deep, ending at BIOL 443

  1. MATH 199Pre-Calculus (Units: 4)
  2. CHEM 115General Chemistry I (Units: 4)
  3. CHEM 215General Chemistry II (Units: 4)

• 7 courses deep, ending at BIOL 454

  1. MATH 199Pre-Calculus (Units: 4)
  2. CHEM 115General Chemistry I (Units: 4)
  3. CHEM 215General Chemistry II (Units: 4)

• 7 courses deep, ending at BIOL 631GW

  1. MATH 199Pre-Calculus (Units: 4)
  2. CHEM 115General Chemistry I (Units: 4)
  3. CHEM 215General Chemistry II (Units: 4)

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 SF State campus feed.