Biology at Virginia Commonwealth 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 123 BIOL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 31 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.

• 11 courses deep, ending at BIOL 453

  1. MATH 139College Algebra with Applications
  2. MATH 151Precalculus Mathematics
  3. MATH 200Calculus with Analytic Geometry I.
  4. MATH 201Calculus with Analytic Geometry II.
  5. CHEM 101General Chemistry I.
  6. BIOL 151Introduction to Biological Sciences I.
  7. BIOL 200Quantitative Biology
  8. BIOL 300Cellular and Molecular Biology
  9. BIOL 450Biology of Cancer I.
  10. BIOL 451Biology of Cancer II.
  11. BIOL 453Cancer Biology Thesis

• 11 courses deep, ending at BIOL 541

  1. MATH 139College Algebra with Applications
  2. MATH 151Precalculus Mathematics
  3. MATH 200Calculus with Analytic Geometry I.

• 9 courses deep, ending at BIOL 307

  1. MATH 139College Algebra with Applications
  2. MATH 151Precalculus Mathematics
  3. MATH 200Calculus with Analytic Geometry I.

• 9 courses deep, ending at BIOL 460

  1. MATH 139College Algebra with Applications
  2. MATH 151Precalculus Mathematics
  3. MATH 200Calculus with Analytic Geometry I.

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

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