After BIOL 1620
Gateway: BIOL 1620
Building the department map…
Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.
Generated from Utah Valley University’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
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.
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 67 BIOL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 13 more BIOL courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
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.
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Distribution Courses:; Personal, Professional, and Civic Growth GE class; Humanities Distribution; Fine Arts Distribution; Social/Behavioral Science
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Elective Requirements2 required · verify with the official sheet
Complete 20 credits from the following:; Any course in the Choose 3 category of the core; Additional credits according to credit and upper division requirements
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Distribution Courses:; Humanities Distribution; Fine Arts Distribution; Social/Behavioral Science; Personal, Professional, and Civic Growth GE class
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Distribution Courses:; Personal, Professional, and Civic Growth GE class; Humanities Distribution; Fine Arts Distribution; Social/Behavioral Science
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Complete the following:; Distribution Courses:; Personal, Professional, and Civic Growth GE class; Humanities Distribution; Fine Arts Distribution; Social/Behavioral Science
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Distribution Courses:; Humanities Distribution; Fine Arts Distribution; Social/Behavioral Science Distribution; Personal, Professional, and Civic Growth GE class
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Distribution Courses:; Humanities Distribution; Personal, Professional, and Civic Growth GE class; Fine Arts Distribution; Social/Behavioral Science
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Distribution Courses:; Humanities Distribution; Personal, Professional, and Civic Growth GE class; Fine Arts Distribution; Social/Behavioral Science
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Personal, Professional, and Civic Growth Elective; Fine Art Elective; Humanities Elective ( COMM 1020 highly recommended); Social Science Elective ( PSY 1010 highly recommended)
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American Institutions; Biology; Physical Science; Personal, Professional and Civic Growth; Humanities; Fine Arts; Social/Behavioral Science
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Distribution Courses:; Humanities Distribution; Fine Arts Distribution; Social/Behavioral Science; Personal, Professional, and Civic Growth ( GEOG 2000 is recommended)
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Complete the following:; Distribution Courses:; Fine Arts; Humanities; Social/Behavioral Science; Personal, Professional, and Civic Growth
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Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in BIOL. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
5 courses deep, ending at BIOL 3705
5 courses deep, ending at BIOL 4990R
4 courses deep, ending at BIOL 3555
4 courses deep, ending at BIOL 4455
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Choose any four from the following (courses with separate labs count as one course).; Choose any five from the following. At least one must be BOT, and at least one must be MICR (courses with separate labs count as one course).; Additional credits according to credit and upper division requirements
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Choose 6 credits from any general electives.; Choose 27 credits from list below or approved by advisor
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Elective Requirements2 required · verify with the official sheet
Choose a minimum of 19 credits from: (Upper division courses are encouraged to meet upper division credit requirements); Choose 6 credits from:; Choose 6 credits from BIOL, BOT, BTEC, ZOOL, or CHEM
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Choose any 2 from the following; Complete 8 credits from any of the following:; Choose from 1 MICR course and accompanying lab from the following:
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Discipline Electives2 required · verify with the official sheet
Complete 20 credits of the following health-related courses; Any course with the following health-related prefix: NURS, DENT, RESP, NUTR, HLSC, HLTH, HCA, PSY, ESEC, or any health-related department approved course.
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