Biology at Western Carolina 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 BIOL coursework.

• BIOL 151General Biology IIopens 37 courses (4 directly)
• BIOL 240Introduction to Geneticsopens 34 courses (7 directly)
• BIOL 241Introduction to Ecology and Evolutionopens 20 courses (15.3 directly)
• BIOL 333Cell and Molecular Biologyopens 9 courses (6.7 directly)
• BIOL 304General Ecologyopens 9 courses (5.8 directly)
• CHEM 361Principles of Biochemistryopens 5 courses (2.2 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 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 55 BIOL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 49 more BIOL 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 BIOL. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at BIOL 411

  1. CHEM 139General Chemistry I
  2. BIOL 151General Biology II
  3. BIOL 240Introduction to Genetics
  4. BIOL 333Cell and Molecular Biology
  5. BIOL 419Cell Biology
  6. BIOL 411Animal Physiology

• 6 courses deep, ending at BIOL 417

  1. CHEM 139General Chemistry I
  2. BIOL 151General Biology II
  3. BIOL 240Introduction to Genetics

• 5 courses deep, ending at BIOL 392

  1. CHEM 139General Chemistry I
  2. BIOL 151General Biology II
  3. BIOL 240Introduction to Genetics

• 3 courses deep, ending at BIOL 415

  1. CHEM 139General Chemistry I
  2. CHEM 140General Chemistry II
  3. BIOL 415Plant Physiology

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for BIOL yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under BIOL yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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