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Life Science - B.S.E. Program Requirements PDFDownload to print

Type Legend: DD Diversity–Domestic; DG Diversity–Global; ELR Experiential Learning; KAD Kent Core Additional; KBS Kent Core Basic Sciences; KCM Kent Core Composition; KFA Kent Core Fine Arts: KHU Kent Core Humanities; KMC Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning; KSS Kent Core Social Sciences; WIC Writing Intensive

Please read the sections in the University Catalog on Kent Core, diversity, writing-intensive and the experiential learning requirements.

I. DESTINATION KENT STATE: FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE (1 credit)
Type Course Title Credits
  US 10097 Destination Kent State: First Year Experience 1
II. MAJOR PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (58 credits) Courses count in major GPA
Type Course Title Credits
KBS BSCI 10110 Biological Diversity* 4
KAD   10120 Biological Foundations* 4
    30140 Cell Biology* 4
    30156 Elements of Genetics* 3
    30360 General Ecology 4
    40163 Organic Evolution* 3
KBS CHEM 10060 General Chemistry I* 4
KBS   10061 General Chemistry II* 4
KBS   10062 General Chemistry I Laboratory* 1
KBS   10063 General Chemistry II Laboratory 1
    20481 Basic Organic Chemistry I* 4
    30284 Introduction to Biological Chemistry* 4
KBS GEOL 11042 Earth History* 3
KBS   11043 Earth History Laboratory* 1
KBS PHY 13001 General College Physics I 4
KBS   13002 General College Physics II 4
KBS   13021 General College Physics Laboratory I 1
KBS   13022 General College Physics Laboratory II 1
  Choose from the following: 4
  BSCI 20560 Invertebrate Zoology (4)  
    30275 Local Flora (4)  
    30518 Vertebrate Anatomy (4)  
    30580 Entomology (4)  
    30582 Ornithology (4)  
    40364 Limnology (4)  
    40556 Vertebrate Zoology (4)
III. ADDITIONAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (74 credits)
Type Course Title Credits
WIC ADED 32142 Principles of Teaching Adolescents* 3
    32277 Teaching Science in Secondary Schools* 3
    42277 Topics in Secondary School Science* 3
ELR   42292 Field Work Practicum* 3
ELR   42357 Secondary Student Teaching* 9
    49525 Inquiry into the Profession* 3
  CI 47330 Reading and Writing in Adolescent/Adulthood* 3
  CULT 29535 Education in a Democratic Society* 3
  EPSY 29525 Educational Psychology* 3
  ITEC 19525 Educational Technology* 3
KMC MATH 11010 Algebra for Calculus 3
KMC
  11022 Trigonometry 3
KAD   12002 Analytic Geometry and Calculus I 5
    10041

30011
 Elementary Probability and Statistics (3)
or
Basic Probability and Statistics (3)		 3
KHU
DG		 PHIL 11001 Introduction to Philosophy 3
KSS
DD
 PSYC 11762 General Psychology 3
KSS
DD		 SOC 12050 Introduction to Sociology 3
DD SPED 23000 Introduction to Exceptionalities 3
  Kent Core Composition 6-8
  Kent Core Humanities and Fine Arts (minimum one from each) 6
MINIMUM TOTAL 133

*A minimum C (2.000) grade must be earned. A minimum C (2.000) grade must be earned in ADED 32142 to fulfill the writing-intensive requirement.