Biology
If you love animals or plants, being out in nature, or the drama of medical research, you may be a biologist at heart. You find Biology majors analyzing samples in crime labs, teaching children about wildlife, growing cell cultures and sampling trees. Everything from DNA in the nucleus of a cell to medicine, animal behavior or the ways humans affect the environment falls under biology.
A variety of courses for flexible careers
At Alverno, biology courses are organized into three main tracks or specializations:
- Students in the organismic biology track study living organisms in the environment.
- The health-related track focuses on human biology and the biology behind medicine.
- The molecular biology specialization integrates physical sciences and biology to understand DNA and how it works at the level of living cells.
All Alverno biology majors take a sampling of courses from all three tracks. You can use your electives to focus on one area or you can choose electives from each track to give yourself a wide-ranging biology degree.
Sample list of courses:
- Organismic Track: Botany, Zoology, Ecology, Microbial Ecology, Animal Behavior
- Health Track: Anatomy and Physiology, Microbiology, Immunology, Pathophysiology
- Molecular Biology Specialization: Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry, Analytical Separations, Cellular Biology, Genetics
Additional abilities
you will acquire
Before you graduate in biology, you'll need to know a lot more than scientific facts. You'll be well-prepared for your career because at Alverno, you will have gained the following skills:
- the ability to analyze; to think
flexibly, analyzing information from every conceivable angle
- the ability to solve complex
problems: to think systematically, defining a problem clearly
and laying out alternative approaches to solving it while noting
various tradeoffs
- the ability to communicate: to work as a team
member and to draw on your ability to make complex matters clear
to the nonspecialist
- the ability to deal responsibly with environmental
and global systems
- the ability to make value judgments and to understand
the values of others in evaluating the consequences of your work
in biology.
Internships for real-life experience as a biologist
All biology majors complete at least one semester-long internship at a local business or research site. During the internship, you'll work in close contact with a professional biologist as your mentor. Your internship will give you the hands-on experience of a working biologist and career contacts you can use for jobs or additional research experience.
What you can do with your degree
Graduates have gone on to work as teachers, as laboratory research technicians in business or medicine, or have gone on to medical or graduate school. Alverno's goal is to help you develop the knowledge base, practical skills and the perspective to help you find the career that is right for you.
Would you like to know more about the program?
Click
here to learn more about Alverno's biology major.
This site has been created and is maintained by the biology
faculty.
Credit for Prior Learning
Alverno offers a program to determine if you are eligible to receive
college credit for prior learning. Click
here for information.
Your Next
Step
To find out more about Alverno's biology program, contact the Admissions
Office. An Admissions counselor can answer your questions about
the program, admissions, credit transfers and financial aid.
Call 414-382-6100, toll-free at 1-800-933-3401,
or e-mail Admissions.
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