Advising Course Plan - Aquatic and Marine Biology Major
This plan indicates an effective way to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Aquatic and Marine Biology. This basic plan would be altered depending upon your post-graduate plans (mainly by adding specific courses in place of ‘Electives’). Please see other advising plans that consider specific graduate plans.
| First Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Units | Spring | Units |
| BIOL 100 | 0.0 | BIOL 142P | 1 |
| BIOL 141P | 1 | General Education requirement | 1 |
| FSEM 100 | 1 | General Education requirement | 1 |
| MATH 1511 | 1 | General Education requirement | 1 |
| General Education requirement | 1 | ||
| 4 | 4 | ||
| Second Year | |||
| Fall | Units | Spring | Units |
| BIOL 243Q | 1 | BIOL 244 | 1 |
| CHEM 141P | 1 | CHEM 142P | 1 |
| General Education requirement | 1 | General Education requirement | 1 |
| Elective | 1 | Elective | 1 |
| 4 | 4 | ||
| Third Year | |||
| Fall | Units | Spring | Units |
| BIOL 300 or 400 level course2 | 1 | BIOL 300 or 400 level course2 | 1 |
| Junior Seminar3 | 1 | BIOL 497 | 0.5 |
| BIOL 397 | 0.5 to 1 | Elective | 1 |
| Elective | 1 | Elective | 1 |
| Elective4 | 1 | ||
| 3.5-4 | 4.5 | ||
| Fourth Year | |||
| Fall | Units | Spring | Units |
| BIOL 300 or 400 level course2 | 1 | BIOL 300 or 400 level course2 | 1 |
| BIOL 498 | 1 | BIOL 499 | 1 |
| Elective | 1 | Elective | 1 |
| Elective | 1 | Elective | 1 |
| 4 | 4 | ||
| Total Units 32-32.5 | |||
- 1
The timing of the Math course is not critical; it can be taken at a later time. Some students may place into, and wish to take, MATH 130 or MATH 141Q.
- 2
4 upper division Biology courses must be taken during years 3 and 4. Three of those must be BIOL 306, BIOL 312, BIOL 313, BIOL 317, or BIOL 333.
- 3
The Junior Seminar can be taken in the spring instead of the fall.
- 4
During the spring of the third year or fourth year, you will need to take another 0.5 or 1 unit course to average 4 units per semester.