a) A minor must contain at least 9 hours of upper division course work. b) Courses taken to satisfy Core Areas I through V may not be counted as course work in the minor. c) Courses taken in Core Area VI may be counted as course work in the minor.
Elizabeth Fuller Biology Advising Office biology@uga.edu 706-542-1691
15 hours
Choose 2 course(s) from the following:
| BCMB 3100 * | Introductory Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 4 |
| BCMB 4020/6020 * | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II | 3 |
| CBIO 3400 ** | Cell Biology | 4 |
| CBIO 3600 ** | Developmental Biology | 4 |
| ECOL 3500 | Ecology | 3 |
| AND ECOL 3500L ^ | Ecology Laboratory | 1 |
| GENE 3000-3000D ^ | Evolutionary Biology | 4 |
| GENE 3200-3200D | Genetics | 4 |
| PBIO 3600 ** | Plant Cell and Developmental Biology | 4 |
| PBIO 3650-3650L ^ | Plant Ecology | 4 |
* Only one of these courses can be used to fulfill this requirement ** Only one of these courses can be used to fulfill this requirement ^ Only one of these courses can be used to fulfill this requirement
Choose 7 to 8 credit hours from the following:
| ANTH(ECOL) 4210L/6210L | Zooarchaeology | 4 |
| ANTH(BIOL)(ECOL)(ENTO)(PBIO) 4260/6260-4260L/6260L | Natural History Collections Management | 4 |
| ANTH(BIOL)(ECOL)(EETH)(ENTO)(FANR)(GEOG)(GEOL)(PATH)(PBIO) 4261 | Museum of Natural History Internship | 3 |
| ANTH(ECOL) 4290/6290 | Environmental Archaeology | 3 |
| ANTH 4790/6790 | Human Adaptation | 3 |
| BCMB 3433 | Biology for Medicine | 4 |
| BCMB 3600 | Genomics and Bioinformatics | 3 |
| BCMB 4010/6010 | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I | 4 |
| BCMB 4020/6020 | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II | 3 |
| BCMB 4030L | Bioprocess Technology | 4 |
| BCMB(CHEM) 4110/6110 | Physical Biochemistry | 3 |
| BCMB 4120/6120 * | Human Biochemistry and Disease | 4 |
| BCMB 4121H * | Human Biochemistry (Honors) | 1 |
| BCMB 4130 | Human Biochemistry II | 3 |
| BCMB(ENTO)(BTEC) 4200/6200 | Biotechnology | 3 |
| BINF(PBIO) 4550/6550 | Concepts in Bioinformatics and Omics | 3 |
| BIOL 3110L | Basic Skills in the Laboratory | 4 |
| BIOL(FANR) 3460 | Biology of the South Pacific | 3 |
| BIOL(WILD) 3700W | Animal Behavior | 3 |
| BIOL 3710L | Animal Behavior Laboratory | 3 |
| BIOL 3720L | Field Animal Behavior | 3 |
| BIOL 4200W ** | Science and Health Writing | 3 |
| BIOL 4300W/6300W ** | Scientific Research Writing | 3 |
| BIOL 4910 | Advanced Topics in Biology | 1-4 |
| BIOL 4960 | Undergraduate Research in Biology | 4 |
| BIOL(CBIO)(VPAT) 5040/7040 | Electron Microscopy | 3 |
| BIOL(CBIO) 5050L/7050L | Electron Microscopy Laboratory | 3 |
| BTEC(BCMB)(PBIO) 4000L | Methods in Biotechnology | 4 |
| CBIO 3000-3000L | Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy | 4 |
| CBIO 3010-3010L | Functional Human Anatomy | 4 |
| CBIO 3050 | Medical Histology | 3 |
| CBIO 3200L | Medical Anatomy | 1-3 |
| CBIO 3400 | Cell Biology | 4 |
| CBIO 3410L | Laboratory in Cellular and Developmental Biology | 4 |
| CBIO 3600 | Developmental Biology | 4 |
| CBIO 3710 | Principles of Physiology | 3 |
| CBIO 3800 | Neurobiology | 4 |
| CBIO 3800L | Neurobiology Laboratory | 2 |
| CBIO(MIBO)(IDIS) 4100/6100-4100D/6100D | Immunology | 4 |
| CBIO 4200 | Biomedical Research in Health and Disease | 3 |
| CBIO 4340/6340 | Biology of Aging | 3 |
| CBIO(IDIS) 4500/6500 | Medical Parasitology | 3 |
| CBIO(PBIO) 4600/6600 | Biology of Protists | 3 |
| CBIO 4730/6730 | Endocrinology | 3 |
| CHEM(BCMB) 4190/6190 | Introduction to NMR Spectroscopy | 3 |
| CRSS(HORT)(ECOL) 4590/6590 | Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition | 3 |
| CRSS(MIBO) 4610/6610-4610L/6610L | Soil Microbiology | 4 |
| ECOL 3000-3000L | Field Methods in Animal Ecology | 3 |
| ECOL 3100-3100L | Tropical Field Ecology | 4 |
| ECOL 3220 | Biology and Conservation of Marine Mammals | 3 |
| ECOL 3220L | Marine Mammals Laboratory | 1 |
| ECOL 3500 | Ecology | 3 |
| AND ECOL 3500L | Ecology Laboratory | 1 |
| ECOL 3505H | Ecology (Honors) | 3 |
| AND ECOL 3505L | Ecology Honors Laboratory | 1 |
| ECOL(BIOL) 3510 | Ecology Laboratory | 3-4 |
| ECOL 3530 | Conservation Biology | 3 |
| ECOL 3600 | Tropical Ecology: From Organisms to Ecosystems | 3 |
| ECOL(IDIS) 3820 | Evolutionary Medicine | 3 |
| ECOL 3880H | Ecosystems of the World (Honors) | 3 |
| ECOL 4000/6000 | Population and Community Ecology | 3 |
| ECOL 4010/6010 | Ecosystem Ecology | 3 |
| ECOL 4050/6050-4050L/6050L | Ichthyology | 4 |
| ECOL 4070/6070-4070L/6070L | Invertebrate Biology and Ecology | 4 |
| ECOL 4130L | Ecological Methodology | 3 |
| ECOL(BIOL)(IDIS) 4150/6150-4150L/6150L | Population Biology of Infectious Diseases | 4 |
| ECOL 4160-4160L | Ecology of North America | 4 |
| ECOL(MARS) 4225-4225L | Methods in Marine Ecology | 4 |
| ECOL 4240-4240L | Physiological Ecology | 4 |
| ECOL 4280/6280 | Coral Reef Ecology | 3 |
| ECOL 4280L/6280L | Coral Reef Ecology Laboratory | 1 |
| ECOL(FISH)(WASR) 4310/6310 | Freshwater Ecosystems | 3 |
| AND ECOL(FISH)(WASR) 4310L/6310L | Freshwater Ecosystems Lab | 1 |
| ECOL(BIOL)(MARS) 4330/6330-4330L/6330L | Tropical Marine Invertebrates | 4 |
| ECOL 4500/6500 | Evolutionary Ecology | 4 |
| ECOL 4540/6540 | Behavioral Ecology | 3 |
| EHSC(FDST)(MIBO) 4310-4310L | Environmental Microbiology | 4 |
| ENTO 3140-3140L | Insect Natural History | 4 |
| ENTO 3645 | Medical Entomology Lecture | 3 |
| ENTO 3650 | Medical Entomology | 3 |
| AND ENTO 3650L | Medical Entomology Lab | 1 |
| ENTO 4000/6000-4000L/6000L | General Entomology | 4 |
| ENTO 4450/6450 | Insect Behavior | 3 |
| FDST(MIBO) 4120/6120-4120L/6120L | Food Fermentations | 3 |
| FISH(ECOL)(MARS)(WILD) 4300/6300 | Environmental Biology of Fishes | 3 |
| FISH(ECOL) 4360/6360 | Fish Ecology | 4 |
| FISH 4500/6500 | Fish Physiology | 3 |
| FISH(ECOL)(MARS)(WILD) 4550/6550-4550L/6550L | Sustainable Aquaculture | 4 |
| GENE 3000-3000D | Evolutionary Biology | 4 |
| GENE 3210L | Experimental Genetics | 3 |
| GENE 3220L | Genetics Problem Solving Laboratory | 3 |
| GENE(ECOL) 4020W/6020W | Biotic Responses to Climate Change in the Ocean | 3 |
| GENE 4200/6200 | Advanced Genetics | 3 |
| GENE 4210L | Experimental Molecular Genetics Laboratory | 3 |
| GENE 4220L | Laboratory in Genetic Modeling | 3 |
| GENE 4230L | Evolutionary Biology Laboratory | 3 |
| GENE 4240L | Experimental Microbiome Genetics Laboratory | 3 |
| GENE 4300/6300 | Evolutionary Genomics | 3 |
| GENE(CBIO) 4310/6310 | Genetic Approaches to Developmental Neuroscience | 3 |
| GENE 4400/6400 | Epigenetics | 3 |
| GENE 4500/6500 | Human Genetics | 3 |
| GENE 4520/6520 | Genetics of Industrial Micro-Organisms | 3 |
| GENE(ECOL) 4530/6530 | Molecular Ecology | 3 |
| GENE 4540/6540 | Cancer Genetics | 3 |
| GENE 4550/6550 | Evolution and Development | 3 |
| HORT(CRSS) 4430/6430 | Plant Physiology | 3 |
| IDIS 3100 | People, Parasites, and Plagues | 3 |
| MARS 3450 | Marine Biology | 3 |
| MARS 3550 | Life in Fluids | 3 |
| MARS(PBIO) 4160-4160L | Life and Death in the Salt Marsh | 4 |
| MARS(FISH) 4380/6380-4380L/6380L | Marine Fisheries Biology | 3 |
| MARS 4200/6200 | Biological and Chemical Oceanography | 3 |
| MARS 4500/6500 | Field Study in Oceanography and Marine Methods | 3-5 |
| MARS(MIBO) 4620/6620 | Microbial Ecology | 3 |
| MARS 4810/6810 | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 3 |
| MIBO 3500 | Introductory Microbiology | 3 |
| MIBO 3500L | Introductory Microbiology Laboratory I | 1 |
| MIBO 3510L | Introductory Microbiology Laboratory II | 3-4 |
| MIBO 4090/6090 | Prokaryotic Biology | 4 |
| MIBO 4110 | Plant-Microbe Interactions | 3 |
| MIBO(POPH) 4220/6220 | Pathogenic Bacteriology | 3 |
| MIBO(POPH) 4220S/6220S | Pathogenic Bacteriology | 3 |
| MIBO 4300/6300 | Genome Editing in Mammals, Plants, Insects, and Microbes | 3 |
| MIBO(POPH)(IDIS) 4450/6450-4450L/6450L | Microbial Genetics and Genomics | 4 |
| MIBO 4500/6500 | Bacterial Symbioses | 3 |
| MIBO 4600L/6600L | Experimental Microbiology Laboratory | 4 |
| MIBO 4680/6680 | Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 4 |
| MIBO 4700/6700 | Medical Mycology | 3 |
| MIBO 4710L/6710L | Medical Mycology Laboratory | 3 |
| PATH(PBIO) 3010 | Fungi: Friends and Foes | 3 |
| PATH(PBIO) 4200/6200-4200L/6200L | Mycology | 4 |
| PBIO 3270 | Flowers | 3 |
| PBIO 3600 | Plant Cell and Developmental Biology | 4 |
| PBIO 3650-3650L | Plant Ecology | 4 |
| PBIO 3660L | Plant Biology Intensive Laboratory | 4 |
| PBIO(CRSS) 4500/6500 | Introduction to Gene Technology | 3 |
| PBIO(ECOL) 4520/6520 | Plant-Animal Interactions | 3 |
| PBIO 4640/6640-4640L/6640L | Botanical Illustration | 3 |
| PBIO 4650/6650-4650L/6650L | Plant Biodiversity | 4 |
| PBIO 4720 | Plant Variation and Evolution | 4 |
| PBIO(ECOL) 4750/6750 | Tropical Ecology and Conservation | 3 |
| PHRM(PMCY) 4000/6000 | The War on Cancer | 3 |
| PMCY 4020/6020 | Human Physiology | 3 |
| POPH(MIBO)(IDIS) 4650/6650 | Introduction to Virology | 3 |
| POPH(MIBO) 4651 | RNA Virus Genomic Diversity | 3 |
| POUL(BIOL) 4060/6060 | Reproductive Endocrinology | 3 |
| PSYC 4120 | Sensation and Perception | 3 |
| PSYC 4130 | Physiological and Comparative Psychology | 3 |
| PSYC 4140 | Cognitive Neuroscience | 3 |
| PSYC 4150 | Biological Foundations of Health Psychology | 3 |
| PSYC 5850 | Psychopharmacology - Drugs and Behavior | 3 |
| VPAT 4000/6000 | On the Origins of Disease | 3 |
| VPHY 3100 | Elements of Physiology | 3 |
| VPHY 3108 | Integrative Concepts in Physiology II | 3 |
| VPHY 4200/6200 | Physiologic Basis of Diseases | 3 |
| VPHY 4300/6300 | Endocrine Physiology | 3 |
| VPHY 4600/6600 | Physiological Toxicology | 3 |
| WILD(ECOL) 3580 | Vertebrate Natural History | 3 |
| AND WILD(ECOL) 3580L | Vertebrate Natural History Laboratory | 1 |
| WILD(ECOL) 4040/6040-4040L/6040L | Herpetology | 4 |
| WILD(BIOL) 4050/6050 | Mammalogy | 3 |
| AND WILD(BIOL) 4050L/6050L | Mammalogy Laboratory | 1 |
| WILD(ECOL) 4060/6060-4060L/6060L | Ornithology | 4 |
| WILD(ECOL)(POPH) 4575/6575 | Conservation Medicine | 6 |
* Only one of these courses can be used to fulfill this requirement ** Only one of these courses can be used to fulfill this requirement
Only 4 hours of research can count towards the 15 hours in the Biology minor. A minimum grade of "C" (2.0) is required in minor course work. All upper-level Biology courses must be taken in residence. Readings and Internship courses are not allowed in the minor.