Bachelor’s Degrees
At Queens College you can get a Bachelor of Arts in Biology, or a Bachelor of Arts in Biology – Education. If you take four semesters of research for credit you are also eligible to defend an Honors Thesis.
Requirements for the Biology Major
- At least 36 credits in BIOL courses (not including 39X, 387)
- Biology 105 and 106 (or their equivalents), taken at the same college
- CHEM 113 and 114
- CHEM 102 or 251
- One of: MATH 151, MATH 142, BIOL 230. Note: If you choose Biol 230 to fulfil the Math requirement, then it will not also count as a BIOL lab elective (see point 7 below).
- At least two of: BIOL 285, BIOL 286, BIOL 287
- At least four (4) laboratory or field courses as electives
- At least three (3) electives at the 300 level (not including 39X, 381, 387)
- At least 20 of the BIOL credits above Biology 106, taken at Queens College
- Transfers: a maximum of 16 BIOL credits as transfer credits in the major
- Required and elective courses applied to other majors or minors cannot be applied towards Biology-major elective requirements (Note: up to 10 BIOL credits are allowed to overlap a Health minor)
Click the links below for forms outlining these and other (Biology minor and Biology Education major) requirements that you can use to chart your progress:
- Bio. Major Requirements (BIOL-BA)
- Biology Education Major Requirements
- QC Biology Minor Requirements
The difference between the B.A. and the B.S. is mainly historical and differs among campuses. Queens College offers a B.A.
Nonmajors Courses
Are you majoring in something else? The Biology Department offers survey and topic-oriented courses (designated as the 001-099 series) that have been designed for non majors. Most of these courses have recitation/discussion sections rather than formal laboratories.