2024-2025 Cal Poly Humboldt Catalog

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2024-2025 Cal Poly Humboldt Catalog

Biology, General Biology Concentration, B.S. MAP

Major Academic Plans

Students at Cal Poly Humboldt follow many different paths to graduation. Your educational and career goals, as well as personal interests all contribute to planning the courses you take.

Major Academic Plans or MAPs show what courses you might take each semester in order to meet university and major program requirements and graduate with a degree in four years. Discussing course options with an advisor will best serve you in planning a customized schedule to meet your individual academic needs.

Additionally, you may build your personalized plan in DARS planning tools using a program MAP as a resource. Meet with your advisor each semester to assist in planning and to review your progress.

Year 1

Semester 1 (13-16 Units)

GE Area B: Mathematics MATH 101 - College Algebra Units: 3 OR (MATH 101I AND MATH 1 ^[1] OR MATH 102 - Algebra and Elementary Functions Units: 4
GE Area E: Lifelong Learning SCI 100 - Becoming a STEM Professional in the 21st Century Units: 3
GE Area F: Ethnic Studies / DCG Domestic NAS 104 - Introduction to Native American Studies Units: 3 (recommended)
Major / GE Area B1 CHEM 109 - General Chemistry I Units: 5 or GE Area B2 BOT 105 - General Botany Units: 4

[1] Credit earned for math support course does not count toward unit requirements for graduation, GE or major.

Major and GE Area B are dependent on Math Placement Category. MATH 105 is required for the major. If MATH 105 is taken earlier than shown here, adjust plans accordingly in consultation with an advisor.

Semester 2 (17-18 Units)

GE Area A: Written Communication ENGL 102 - Composition and Rhetoric A Units: 3 OR ENGL 104 - Accelerated Composition and Rhetoric Units: 3
Optional: ENGL 110 - Academic Literacies Support and Seminar Units: 2
Major Prerequisite MATH 101T - Trigonometry Units: 3 OR Major (Core) MATH 105 - Calculus for the Biological Sciences and Natural Resources Units: 3
Major / GE Area B1 CHEM 109 - General Chemistry I Units: 5 OR GE Area B2 BOT 105 - General Botany Units: 4
GE Area A: Oral Communication COMM 100 - Fundamentals of Speech Communication Units: 3
Lower Division GE Area D: Social Sciences
Units: 3

Year 2

Semester 3 (16-18 Units)

GE Area A: Written Communication ENGL 103 - Composition and Rhetoric B Units: 3 ^[2]
Optional: ENGL 110 - Academic Literacies Support and Seminar Units: 2
Major (Core) BIOL 105 - Principles of Biology Units: 4
Major (Core) MATH 105 - Calculus for the Biological Sciences and Natural Resources Units: 3 ^[3]
Major: CHEM 110 - General Chemistry II Units: 5 OR
Lower Division GE Area C: Arts
Units: 3
American Institutions/GE Area D: Social Science
U.S. History
Units: 3

^[2] If ENGL 104 was taken the previous semester take an elective, other GE or a major course in place of ENGL 103.

^[3] If already completed MATH 105, adjust plan in consultation with advisor.

Semester 4 (15-16 Units)

Lower Division GE Area A: Critical Thinking
Units: 3
Major: STAT 109 - Introductory Biostatistics Units: 4
Major: CHEM 228 - Brief Organic Chemistry Units: 4 OR (CHEM 324 and CHEM 324L )
Major: ZOOL 110 - Introductory Zoology Units: 4

Year 3

Semester 5 (17 Units)

Major (Core) BIOL 330 - Principles of Ecology Units: 4
Major (Concentration) CHEM 228 - Brief Organic Chemistry Units: 4 ^[4]
Major (Concentration) Major Elective Course Units: 3
Lower Division GE Area C: Humanities
Units: 3
Lower Division GE Area C: Arts
OR
Humanities
Units: 3 (Take a course that double-counts for DCG)

^[4] OR (CHEM 324 - Organic Chemistry I Units: 3 AND CHEM 324L - Organic Chemistry I Laboratory Units: 2 ) Semester Total Units: 18

Semester 6 (14-15 Units)

American Institutions
U.S. and California Government
Units: 3
Major (Core) PHYX 106 - College Physics: Mechanics and Heat Units: 4
Major (Core) BIOL 340 - Genetics Units: 4
Major (Concentration) UD Biology Course Units: 3-4

If you took CHEM 324 and CHEM 324L last semester take: CHEM 323 - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR) Techniques Units: 1 CHEM 325L - Organic Chemistry II Laboratory Units: 2 CHEM 325 - Organic Chemistry II Units: 3 Semester Total Units: 20-21

Year 4

Semester 7 (14-17 Units)

Major / UD GE Area B BIOL 307 - Evolution Units: 4
Major (Concentration) BIOL 412 - General Microbiology Units: 4 OR BIOL 433 - Microbial Ecology Units: 3
Major (Concentration) BIOL 350 - Cell Biology Units: 3 OR BOT 310 - General Plant Physiology Units: 4 OR ZOOL 310 - Animal Physiology Units: 4 OR ZOOL 312 - Human Physiology Units: 4
Major (Concentration) PHYX 118 - College Physics: Biological Applications Units: 1 ^[5]
Major UD Biological Sciences Elective Units: 3-4

^[5] OR PHYX 107 - College Physics: Electromagnetism and Modern Physics Units: 4 Semester total units: 17-20

Semester 8 (15 Units)

Upper Division GE Area C: Arts & Humanities
^[6] Units: 3
Upper Division GE Area D: Social Sciences
^[6] Units: 3
Major (Concentration) UD Biological Science Elective Course Units: 3
Major (Concentration) UD Biological Science Elective Course Units: 3
Major (Concentration) UD Biological Science Elective Course Units: 3

^[6] Take one upper division GE course that fulfills the Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement (GWAR).