Botany- Bachelor of Science

For information, contact the Department of Biology, 212 Pearson Hall, 513-529-3100.

Students may double major in Botany and Zoology, but in that case only nine credits of the Advanced Hours requirement may be used for both degrees.

The Minor in Horticulture, Minor in Molecular Biology and/or the Co-major in Environmental Science may be completed along with the B.S. to obtain an emphasis in these areas.

Program Requirements: Basic Major

Program Requirements

(40 BIO semester hours, 28 must be advanced hours; 23-34 related hours)

Core Courses
Select one of the following options:7-8
Option A:
Biological Concepts: Ecology, Evolution, Genetics, and Diversity
Biological Concepts: Structure, Function, Cellular, and Molecular Biology
Option B:
Plant Biology
Plus any BIO or MBI course from the Science and Society Perspective area in the Miami Plan
Select the following:
BIO 203Introduction to Cell Biology3
BIO 204Evolution of Plant Biodiversity: Genes to Biosphere4
BIO 209Fundamentals of Ecology3
Select at least two core plant biology courses:8
Dendrology
Plant Taxonomy
Plant Diversity
Plant Anatomy
Environmental Plant Physiology
Select at least one course in applied botany:3-4
Plant Propagation
Botanical Principles in Landscape Gardening
Viticulture and Enology
Basic Horticulture
Introduction to Food Systems (IES 278L encouraged)
Select up to 3 credit hours of Independent Study/Research/Internship0-3
Independent Studies
Directed Research
Internship
Independent Studies
Independent Studies
Select from unused courses above or from the following additional courses to equal 40 BIO hours, 28 of which must be at/above the 200-level:12-10
Introduction to Programming for the Life Sciences
Genetics
Environmental Education: Focus on Natural History
Capstone Seminar: Contemporary Issues in Biology
Evolutionary and Population Genetics
Global Plant Diversity
Soil Ecology and Sustainable Use
Molecular Biology
Laboratory in Cell and Molecular Biology
Bioinformatics Computing Skills
Conservation Biology
Departmental Honors
Theory of Electron Microscopy
Transmission Electron Microscopy Laboratory
Scanning Electron Microscopy Laboratory
Bioinformatics Principles
Seminar in Biology
Related Hours
Take the following:17-20
College Chemistry
and College Chemistry Laboratory
College Chemistry
and College Chemistry Laboratory
Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
and Organic Chemistry Laboratory
Analytical Chemistry
and Analytical Chemistry Laboratory
Outlines of Biochemistry
Fundamentals of Biochemistry
Select one of the following:3-10
Physics for the Life Sciences with Laboratory I
and Physics for the Life Sciences with Laboratory II
General Physics I
and General Physics Laboratory I
and General Physics II
and General Physics Laboratory II
The Dynamic Earth
Environmental Geology
Geology Of U.S. National Parks
Earth's Physical Environment
Select one of the following:3-4
Statistics
Applied Statistics
Inferential Statistics
Total Credit Hours63-77

Note: At least one course in the Major must be at the 400 level. No more than three hours of research/internship may count toward the major.

Note: For graduate study in biological sciences, most programs require genetics and some may require a physics sequence.