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Oklahoma State University
BIOL 3890 Advanced Honors Experience in Integrative Biology Prerequisites: Honors Program participation and concurrent enrollment in a designated BIOL course. Description: A supplemental Honors experience in Integrative Biology to partner concurrently with designated upper-division BIOL course(s). This course adds a different intellectual dimension to the designated course(s). Credit hours: 1 Contact hours: Lecture: 1 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Integrative Biology General Education and other Course Attributes: Honors Credit BIOL 3933 Research Methods Prerequisites: BIOL 1114 and (MATH 1613 or MATH 2144) and (STAT 2013 or STAT 4013). Description: Students perform independent inquiries and learn to combine skills from mathematics and science to solve research problems. Students will design experiments, collect and analyze data, formulate hypotheses, justify conclusions, create mathematical models, read and evaluate the research literature, and write and present research reports. No credit for students with degree credit in MATH 3933. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 2 Lab: 2 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lab, Lecture, Combined lecture and lab Department/School: Integrative Biology BIOL 4024 Histology Prerequisites: BIOL 3114, BIOL 3204, or BIOL 3214. Description: The study of cellular composition and functional components of tissues. With an emphasis in vertebrates, the course is a survey of the microanatomy and function of tissues such as epithelial, connective, muscular, and nervous. May not be used for degree credit
BIOL 4113 Conservation Genetics Prerequisites: (BIOL 3023 or equivalent) and MATH 1513.
Description: Principles of population genetics as they pertain to issues in conservation biology. Evolutionary relationships, hybridization, natural selection, factors affecting small populations, gene flow, captive populations, and metapopulations. No credit for students with credit in BIOL 5113. Previously offered as ZOOL 4113. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3
Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Integrative Biology BIOL 4133 Evolution Prerequisites: BIOL 3023.
Description: Development of the evolutionary concept; speciation evolutionary mechanisms and phylogenetic concepts. May not be used for degree credit with BIOL 5033. Previously offered as ZOOL 4133. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3
Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Integrative Biology BIOL 4134 Embryology Prerequisites: BIOL 1604 and CHEM 1515.
Description: Biochemical basis of development with emphasis on gene regulation. Comparative development of sea urchin, frog, chick and pig. Experiments using frog and mouse, including the molecular level. Previously offered as ZOOL 4134. Credit hours: 4
Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Lab: 2 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule types: Lab, Lecture, Combined lecture and lab Department/School: Integrative Biology BIOL 4174 Mammalogy
with BIOL 5024. Credit hours: 4 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Lab: 2 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lab, Lecture, Combined lecture and lab Department/School: Integrative Biology BIOL 4104 General Parasitology Prerequisites: BIOL 1604.
Prerequisites: "C" or better in BIOL 1604 and (BIOL 3034 or NREM 3013). Description: Taxonomy, identification, evolution, zoogeography, life history traits, and techniques of study of wild mammals. Weekend field trips required. May not be used for degree credit with BIOL 5174. Previously offered as ZOOL 4174. Credit hours: 4 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Lab: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lab, Lecture, Combined lecture and lab Department/School: Integrative Biology BIOL 4184 Herpetology Prerequisites: BIOL or ZOOL 1604. Description: The biology of amphibians and reptiles with an emphasis on evolutionary relationships and comparative morphology, physiology, ecology, and natural history; laboratory emphasis on Oklahoma species. Offered spring semester of even-numbered years. Weekend field trips required. May not be used for degree credit with BIOL 5184. Credit hours: 4 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Lab: 2 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lab, Lecture, Combined lecture and lab Department/School: Integrative Biology
Description: Fundamentals of parasitism with emphasis on: life cycles, disease conditions, epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, historical significance, terminology, taxonomy, and parasitological techniques. Previously offered as ZOOL 4104. Credit hours: 4
Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Lab: 3 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule types: Lab, Lecture, Combined lecture and lab Department/School: Integrative Biology
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