The biology major at UNG is a versatile program that allows you to explore the biological sciences as a whole, while also diving into specialty areas of the field.
While there are courses all biology majors are required to take, there is flexibility in the curriculum to choose courses that will help you work toward your career goals. For example, if you want to study wildlife management in graduate school, you could choose elective courses in ornithology and conservation biology. If you're interested in a professional program, then you could take upper-level electives that satisfy the admissions requirements for your dream program.
By the time you graduate, you'll have had the opportunity to volunteer in the community, found friends who love science as much as you, and even completed undergraduate research one-on-one with a professor in fields like microbiology or marine biology.
Bachelor of Science
Biology, today more than ever, is the application of chemistry, physics, and mathematics to life processes. We offer a rigorous program that requires knowledge of basic science concepts to understand biology, along with a reasonable amount of quantitative analysis in the form of probability, statistics, graph interpretation and other mathematical applications.
We recommend that our majors begin their first biology course with at least some background in chemistry, and we encourage students to take college chemistry soon after entering our department. We favor mathematics and physics over additional biology courses in high school (e.g. anatomy). This is not only a recommendation for our department, but all University of North Georgia science courses, and any university science program in general.
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Biology majors can choose a pre-professional path that allows your academic and faculty advisor to know the specific path you want to take with your degree so they can help you on your journey.
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