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Description of General Biology
I & II
General
Biology I and General Biology II
( BIOL 103 & 104 ) are 4-credit courses designed to fulfill
the Liberal Studies Natural Science requirement of a
two-semester laboratory course sequence. Offered during the
fall semester, General Biology I covers the topics of ecology,
cell structure and function, and genetics, then concludes with
the unifying concept of evolution. The laboratory schedule
for this course begins with 5 weeks of outdoor activities.
Students are taken to off-campus sites in order to investigate
the concepts of populations, communities, and ecosystems. The
remainder of the weekly lab exercises are held indoors, and
examine topics such as fermentation, cells and osmosis, human
genetics, and natural selection.
General Biology II is offered
during the spring semester, and explores the topics of plant
and animal physiology, reproduction, and development, and
animal behavior. The practical applications of these topics
to everyday life are emphasized. The laboratory schedule for
this course differs from General Biology I in that the regular
two-hour labs will meet for the first eight weeks of the
semester only. After that, the Elective
Lab Program begins, in which students choose the labs
they are interested in attending for their final 10 hours of
lab experience. The list of lab offerings covers a wide range
of topics and involves over a dozen different professors.
Elective labs may be indoor or outdoor activities lasting from
2 to 6 hours, or they may be all day field trips.
It is the intent of the faculty
that all students leave the General Biology program
sufficiently prepared to understand such current news topics
as genetic engineering, DNA fingerprinting, organ transplant
rejection, and cloning. Both courses should enable one to
develop a deeper understanding of the major biological
concepts, an enduring interest in the various branches of life
science, and a greater appreciation of the phenomenon of
“life”.
Director:
Martha J. Jack
MJACK@iup.edu
(724)
357-2566
Weyandt Hall, Room 216
975 Oakland
Ave,
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana,
Pennsylvania 15705-1076
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