2022-2023 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Biology
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Office: Donnelly Science Center, Room 247
Telephone: 410‑617‑2642
Fax: 410‑617‑5682
Website: www.loyola.edu/academics/biology
Chair: Lisa Z. Scheifele, Associate Professor
Director of Advising and Curriculum: Theresa M. Geiman
Professors: Henry C. Butcher IV (emeritus); Charles R. Graham, Jr. (emeritus); Donald A. Keefer (emeritus); David B. Rivers; Christopher Thompson
Endowed Professor: Michael A. Tangrea
Associate Professors: Elissa Miller Derrickson; Kim C. Derrickson; Theresa M. Geiman; Armina A. Kazi; Derek M. Kendig; Bernadette M. Roche; Lisa Z. Scheifele; Andrew J. Schoeffield; Maren E. Veatch-Blohm
Affiliate Faculty: Jason Carbaugh; Kolaleh Hassan; Reagan Lake; Lauren Spearman; Alan Thomas-Chesley
The Biology Department is an active, student-centered department that focuses on excellence in teaching and undergraduate research. The Major in Biology is designed to provide the depth, scope, and skills necessary for the job market or admission to graduate and professional schools. The biology degree requirements include a minimum of 10 courses in biology, as well as courses from chemistry, physics, and mathematics and statistics.
The three introductory biology courses required for the major provide a foundation to each of the three major areas of biology: cell and molecular biology, structure and function of organisms, and ecology and evolutionary biology. The upper-level curriculum allows students flexibility to explore the sub-disciplines of biology in greater depth. In the upper-level curriculum, courses generally consist of a classroom component with associated laboratory and/or seminar experiences.
The discipline of biology is experiential in nature, which means that students are active participants in their own education. Students are required to take one advanced course in each of the three major areas of biology. These advanced courses include laboratory components in which students learn how to think and write like scientists, often while designing and executing an experiment. They also learn how to work cooperatively as contributing members of a team and develop a greater sense of academic community.
The general biology curriculum is flexible in the major's requirements by allowing students to select seven upper-division courses from a wide array of offerings, of which four are unrestricted. This flexibility allows students to individualize their curriculum to suit their academic and career goals. Loyola's biology curriculum helps to prepare students as academicians, for their professional career after Loyola, and as lifelong learners.
The Biology Department emphasizes the following objectives:
The fostering of supportive student-faculty relationships. Students engage in a caring and open student-faculty relationship in which they view faculty as both models and mentors. Students understand the inevitability of making mistakes during the process of growing from student to biologist.
The preparation of students for life after Loyola as members of the job market or for studies in graduate or professional schools. Through a flexible curriculum, students make appropriate connections between their coursework, the world around them, and their personal strengths and convictions.
Through its nurturing mentorship and flexible curriculum, the department attempts to produce broadly trained biologists ready for a wide range of careers by emphasizing the learning aims.
Learning Aims
The Biology Department has developed the following learning aims for the biology major:
- Students will master the current factual content of different sub-disciplines within biology, such as molecular/cellular, organismal, and population biology.
- Students will demonstrate the ability to organize, apply, and synthesize the large quantities of new scientific information into a meaningful framework.
- Students will show a clear understanding of the scientific process and effectively engage in conducting research based on their ability to read, understand, and critically evaluate primary literature articles; ask scientific questions; design experiments testing hypotheses; and analyze, display, and interpret data using statistical and graphical software packages.
- Students will demonstrate proficiency in communicating effectively in a variety of formats, including verbal, written, and symbolic (mathematical) channels. They will exhibit the ability to write papers in appropriate scientific formats; discuss scientific experiments in a group; present results verbally and in poster formats; and use computer and graphical models to explain biological phenomenon.
- Students will be able to articulate the ethical issues surrounding the practice and direction of biological research.
- Students will become active and engaged citizens who take active leadership and service roles in the larger community, particularly when issues arise related to their biological training.
ProgramsMajorInterdisciplinary OptionsMinorCoursesBiology- BL 007 - STiNTS-Pro for Biology
- BL 100 - Insects in Our World
- BL 101 - Introduction to Forensic Science with Lab
- BL 102 - Medicinal Plants
- BL 103 - Microbes and Man: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- BL 104 - Twisted Planet: Global Issues in Biology
- BL 105 - Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology
- BL 106 - Science of Life
- BL 107 - Life on the Edge
- BL 109 - Modern Marvels of Biotechnology
- BL 111 - Environmental Biology
- BL 113 - Human Biology
- BL 114 - Biology: A Human Approach
- BL 115 - Biology, Evolution, and Human Nature
- BL 116 - The Chesapeake Bay Environment
- BL 118 - Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Biology
- BL 119 - Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Biology Lab
- BL 120 - Food: Environmental and Human Impacts
- BL 121 - Organismal Biology
- BL 126 - Organismal Biology Lab
- BL 201 - Ecology, Evolution, and Biodiversity
- BL 202 - Process of Science and Ecology, Evolution, and Biodiversity Lab
- BL 206 - Human Anatomy and Physiology I
- BL 207 - Human Anatomy and Physiology Lab I
- BL 208 - Human Anatomy and Physiology II
- BL 209 - Human Anatomy and Physiology Lab II
- BL 210 - Introduction to Human Nutrition
- BL 220 - Natural History of Maryland Species
- BL 230 - Avian Biology with Lab
- BL 241 - Invertebrate Zoology with Lab
- BL 250 - General Entomology with Lab
- BL 255 - Introduction to Biomedical Research
- BL 270 - Ecology with Lab
- BL 276 - Human Health and the Environment
- BL 280 - General Genetics with Lab
- BL 281 - General Genetics
- BL 301 - Vertebrate Anatomy with Lab
- BL 302 - Ecology of the Burren
- BL 303 - Natural and Cultural History of Burren
- BL 305 - Plant Ecology with Lab
- BL 310 - Botany with Lab
- BL 311 - Research Methods: Plant Science
- BL 315 - Bench to Bedside: Translating Science to Patient Care
- BL 316 - Comparative Physiology with Lab
- BL 317 - Comparative Physiology
- BL 321 - Synthetic Biology
- BL 322 - Synthetic Biology with Lab
- BL 332 - Microbiology
- BL 334 - Microbiology Lab
- BL 341 - Molecular Genetics with Lab
- BL 343 - Molecular Genetics with Seminar
- BL 346 - Plant-Animal Interactions
- BL 347 - Plant-Animal Interactions Seminar
- BL 349 - Biology of Mammals
- BL 350 - Biology of Mammals with Lab
- BL 351 - Forensic Entomology with Lab
- BL 355 - Forensic Biology with Lab
- BL 361 - Plant Physiology with Lab
- BL 370 - Pharmacology
- BL 390 - Conservation Biology
- BL 392 - Conservation Biology Seminar
- BL 393 - Conservation Biology Lab
- BL 399 - Biology Internship I
- BL 400 - Biology Internship II
- BL 401 - Endocrinology
- BL 403 - Neurobiology with Lab
- BL 404 - Laboratory Experience in Neurobiology
- BL 405 - Neurobiology
- BL 406 - Endocrinology Lab
- BL 408 - Endocrinology with Lab
- BL 410 - Developmental Biology with Lab
- BL 411 - Developmental Biology
- BL 424 - Cancer Biology with Lab
- BL 426 - Cell Biology
- BL 427 - Cell Biology Lab
- BL 428 - Bioterrorism
- BL 431 - Biochemistry I
- BL 432 - Biochemistry II
- BL 433 - Biochemistry Lab I
- BL 434 - Biochemistry Lab II
- BL 435 - Evolution with Seminar
- BL 436 - Evolution
- BL 438 - Exploring the Human Genome
- BL 440 - Special Topics in Biology
- BL 444 - Stem Cell Biology with Lab
- BL 445 - Conservation and the Tree of Life
- BL 452 - General and Human Physiology with Lab
- BL 454 - Animal Behavior
- BL 455 - Animal Behavior Lab
- BL 467 - Seminar: Career Choices
- BL 470 - Seminar: Special Topics in Organismal Biology
- BL 471 - Seminar: Special Topics in Ecology, Evolution, and Diversity
- BL 472 - Seminar: Special Topics in Cellular and Molecular Biology
- BL 473 - Special Topics in Forensic Biology
- BL 481 - Biology Research I
- BL 482 - Biology Research II
- BL 483 - Biology Research III
- BL 491 - Honors Biology Research I
- BL 492 - Honors Biology Research II
- BL 496 - Environmental Studies Experience
- BL 498 - Forensic Studies Experience
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