Zoology Major :: Additional Life Science Courses

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Approved Additional Life Science Courses

Students may select up to two courses from among those listed below as "courses offered by departments other Zoology" to count towards the 32 credit Zoology major requirement. Note that such courses may NOT be used to satisfy another requirement category.

MCB 4203 Bacterial and Viral Pathogens  Credits: 3; Prereq: MCB 3020, with a C or better.
Host-parasite relationships in the diseases of man and animals. The characteristics of bacterial and viral pathogens. Basic techniques of isolation and identification.

MCB 4304 Genetics of Microorganisms  Credits: 3; Prereq: MCB 3020, MCB 3020L with C or better; BCH 4024 or CHM 4207 should be taken before MCB 4304. Molecular biology of bacterial gene expression, DNA replication, mutation, genetic mapping using plasmids and phages, recombinant DNA mechanisms.

MCB 4403 Prokaryotic Cell Structure and Function Credits: 3; Prereq: CHM 2211; MCB 3020, MCB 3020L with C or better. BCH 4024 or CHM 4207 should be taken before MCB 4403.
An analysis of the cell structure and physiology of bacterial cells. Extensive discussion of cell division and cell growth is provided, along with descriptions of important bacterial cell structures (e.g. cell walls, membranes, flagella, etc.)

MCB 4503 General Virology  Credits: 3; Prereq: MCB 3020 and MCB 3020L and MCB 4203 with C or better. Nature of viruses and mechanisms of infection and replication. Includes bacterial, animal and plant viruses.

PCB 4202 Biology of Differentiated Cells Credits: 3; Prereq: CHM 2211 with C or better; PCB 3134.  Lectures on the physiology of cell specialization. Emphasis on comp-arative ultra structure, function and regulation of differentiated cell types.

PCB 4522 Molecular Genetics   Credits: 3; Prereq: MCB 3020 with C or better grade.
Molecular biology of prokaryotes and eukaryotes covering the fundamentals of genome organization and gene structure, regulation of transcription, DNA replication and repair, and RNA processing. Also included are discussions of strategies, vectors and applications of genetic engineering in higher plants and animals.

PCB 5235 Immunology   Credits: 3; Prereq: C or higher in MCB 3020L Immune system of vertebrate animals.  The cellular and molecular events involved in immume responsiveness and resistance to infectious diseases.
 
ZOO 4905 Individual Studies in Zoology Credits: 1 to 4; 6 CREDITS MAX. Prereq: BSC 2011 and 2011L with a grade of at least C, one zoology laboratory-based course, and permission of instructor.. 

ZOO 4232 Human Parisitology (Coll of Agric.)  Credits: 3; Prereq: BSC 2010 and BSC 2010L; BSC 2011, BSC 2011L or AGR 3303 with C or better grade. Host-parasite relationships of helminth and protozoan diseases important in health sciences and veterinary medicine.

PSB 3004 Physiological Psychology  Credits: 3; Prereq: PSY 2012. Survey of the biological basis of behavior with special relevance to psychology. Students may not take both PSB 3004 and PSB 3340. (B)

PSB 3340 Behavioral Neuroscience  Credits: 3; Prereq: BSC 2010. Neuroanatomatical, chemical, and electrophysiological studies in the biological basis of behavior. Students may not take both PSB 3004 and PSB 3340. PSB 3340 is recommended for IDS majors in Neurobiological Sciences. (B)

PSB 4504 Developmental Psychobiology  Credits: 3; Prereq: PSB 3004 or PSB 3340, or permission of instructor.  Principles of neural and behavioral development stressing the correlations among structural, chemical, endocrine, and behavioral events during maturation. (B)

PSB 4810--Neurobiology of Learning and Memory  Credits: 3; Prereq: PSB 3004 or PSB 3054.
Advanced undergraduate seminar on neurobiological mechanisms of learning and memory, with concepts applied to neuroadaptations in many aspects of neurophysiology.
PSB 4654 Chemical Senses and Behavior  Credits: 3; Prereq: PSB 3004 or PSB 3340, or permission of instructor.  Discussion of neural mechanisms and function of chemical senses, interaction with physiologic state, and motivational aspects. (B)

PSB 4823 Principles of Integrative Physiological Psychology  Credits: 3; Prereq: PSB 3004 or PSB 3340, or permission of instructor. Discussion of the problem of how reflexes become transformed into operant behaviors. Focus on drug and disease states as a way of getting insights into this problem in animals and humans.
 
ANT 4552 Primate Behavior Credits: 3. Deals with the taxonomy, distribution and ecology of primates. The range of primate behavior for each major taxonomic group is explored. (WR)

ANT 4554C Primate Evolution Credits: 3; Prereq: ANT 3514C, or permis of instructor.  Survey of primate evol. from Paleocene through Miocene epochs. Methods of paleontological inference. Emph. on problems of taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography and functional morphology in the fossil record.

ANT 4586 Human Evolution Credits: 3; Prereq: ANT 3514C, or equivalent. This course surveys the evidence for the evolution of humankind. Emphasis is placed on the late Miocene to Pleistocene human fossil record and its interpretation. Basic principles of geology, systematics, evolutionary theory, functional morphology, and phylogenetic reconstruction are introduced and used to aid in understanding the human fossil and archaeological records. (B)

The following courses are often requested but may not be applied toward the required coursework in the major
AGR3303 Genetics
ANT3461 Folk Med
ANT3514 Intro Biol. Anthro
ANT3515 Hum. Evol Anat
ANT3522 Skel. Keys
ANT4525 Hum. Osteology
CLP3144 AbnormPsych
DEP3053 Devel.Psychol.
FOS3042 Food Science
GEO3427 Plants, Health,phys
HSC3531 Hlth and Med Term
MCB2000 Microbiology
MEL5011 Intro. to the Prof of Med
PET2320C Ap Hum Anat
PET2350C Ap Hum Phys
PET3211 Exercise Physiology        
PHI3633 Bioethics

 

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