Course Descriptions

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Biology Discipline Courses

Course ID Title Latest Offering
BIOL 100 Human Biology (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 101 Human Biology Laboratory (1) Fall 2009
BIOL 150 The World of Plants (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 160 Marine Biology (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 170 Animal Diversity (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 171 Animal Diversity Laboratory (1) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 175 Cells, Microbes, and Life (3) Spring 2007
BIOL 210 General Microbiology and Public Health (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 211 General Microbiology and Public Health Laboratory (1) Fall 2009
BIOL 230 Introductory Biology I (5) Fall 2009
BIOL 240 Introductory Biology II (5) Fall 2009
BIOL 300 Nature Study (3) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 310 Biology for Today's World (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 313 Principles of Ecology (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 317 Ecology of California (3) Summer 2009
BIOL 318 Our Endangered Planet (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 321 Magic, Myths, and Medicine--A History of Medicine (3) Spring 2008
BIOL 322 Human Sexuality: Integrative Science (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 326 Disease! (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 327 AIDS: Biology of the Modern Epidemic (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 328 Human Anatomy (4) Effective Spring 2010
BIOL 330 Human Sexuality (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 332 Health Disparities in Cancer (3) Spring 2009
BIOL 333 The Genetic Revolution (3) Spring 2007
BIOL 337 Evolution (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 344 Research Skills (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 349 Bioethics (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 350 Cell Biology (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 351 Experiments in Cell and Molecular Biology (4) Fall 2009
BIOL 355 Genetics (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 356 Honors Genetics (2) Spring 2009
BIOL 357 Molecular Genetics (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 380 Comparative Embryology (3) Spring 2004
BIOL 382 Developmental Biology (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 391 Microscopy and Photomicrography (2) Fall 2009
BIOL 395 Topics in Biology (1-3) Effective Fall 1994
BIOL 395 Variable topics:
  BIOL 395 Survey of Marine Mammals (3) Spring 2007
BIOL 396 Laboratory Topics in Biology (1-3) Effective Fall 1994
BIOL 396 Variable topics:
  BIOL 396 Laboratory in Wetland Ecology and Management (1) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 401 General Microbiology (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 402 General Microbiology Laboratory (2) Fall 2009
BIOL 411 Environmental and Industrial Microbiology (4) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 420 General Virology (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 425 Emerging Diseases (3) Fall 2008
BIOL 430 Medical Microbiology (3) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 430 Medical Microbiology (5) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 431 Medical Microbiology Laboratory (2) Fall 2009
BIOL 435 Immunology (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 436 Immunology Laboratory (2) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 440 Ethical Issues in Science and Technology (3) Spring 2009
BIOL 442 Microbial Physiology (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 443 Microbial Physiology Laboratory (2) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 450 Biology of the Protozoa (3) Spring 2006
BIOL 453 General Parasitology (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 454 Parasitology Laboratory (1) Fall 2009
BIOL 458 Biometry (4) Fall 2009
BIOL 460 General Entomology (4) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 461 Insect Taxonomy (4) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 464 Medical Entomology (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 470 Natural History of Vertebrates (4) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 475 Herpetology (3) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 478 Ornithology (4) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 482 Ecology (4) Fall 2009
BIOL 492 Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates (4) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 500 Evolution and Diversity of Plants (4) Fall 2009
BIOL 502 Biology of the Algae (3) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 504 Biology of the Fungi (4) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 505 Comparative Anatomy of Vascular Plants (4) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 514 Plant Taxonomy (5) Spring 2009
BIOL 525 Plant Physiology (3) Spring 2009
BIOL 526 Plant Physiology Laboratory (2) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 527 Plant Physiological Ecology (3) Effective Spring 2009
BIOL 529 Plant Ecology (4) Fall 2009
BIOL 530 Conservation Biology (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 532 Restoration Ecology (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 533 Geographic Information Systems for Environmental Analysis (4) Spring 2009
BIOL 534 Wetland Ecology (4) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 550 Plant and Animal Interactions (4) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 555 Marine Invertebrate Zoology (4) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 570 Biology of Fishes (4) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 572 Colloquium in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation (2) Fall 2009
BIOL 575 Fisheries Biology (3) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 577 Ecological and Environmental Modeling (4) Fall 2008
BIOL 580 Limnology (3) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 582 Biological Oceanography (4) Fall 2009
BIOL 583 Marine Microbial Ecology (3) Spring 2004
BIOL 584 Marine Microbial Ecology Laboratory (1) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 585 Marine Ecology (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 586 Marine Ecology Laboratory (2) Fall 2009
BIOL 600 Animal Behavior (3) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 606 The Behavior and Physiology of Marine Mammals (3) Fall 2004
BIOL 607 Conservation and Management of Marine Mammals (3) Fall 2007
BIOL 609 Physics in Medicine (3) Effective Spring 2010
BIOL 610 Principles of Human Physiology (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 611 Principles of Human Physiology Laboratory (1) Fall 2009
BIOL 612 Human Physiology (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 613 Human Physiology Laboratory (2) Fall 2009
BIOL 614 Vertebrate Histology (4) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 615 Molecular Pathophysiology (3) Spring 2008
BIOL 616 Cardiorespiratory Physiology (3) Fall 2008
BIOL 617 Advanced Topics in Physiology (3) Spring 2004
BIOL 620 Endocrinology (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 621 Reproductive Physiology (3) Summer 2009
BIOL 622 Hormones and Behavior (3) Fall 2004
BIOL 625 Hematology (3) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 630 Animal Physiology (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 631 Animal Physiology Laboratory (4) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 638 Bioinformatics & Genome Annotation (4) Fall 2009
BIOL 640 Cellular Neurosciences (3) Spring 2009
BIOL 642 Neural Systems Physiology (3) Summer 2008
BIOL 652 SFSU Science Partners in K-12 Schools (4) Fall 2009
BIOL 652 Science Education Partners in Biology (4) Effective Spring 2010
BIOL 694 Cooperative Internship in Biology (2-4) Effective Fall 1994
BIOL 694 Variable topics:
  BIOL 694 Cooperative Internship in Biology (2) Fall 2009
  BIOL 694 Cooperative Internship in Biology (3) Fall 2009
  BIOL 694 Cooperative Internship in Biology (4) Fall 2009
BIOL 699 Special Study in Biology (1-3) Effective Spring 2006
BIOL 699 Variable topics:
  BIOL 699 Special Study in Biology (1) Fall 2009
  BIOL 699 Special Study in Biology (2) Fall 2009
  BIOL 699 Special Study in Biology (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 702 Biology of the Algae (3) Spring 2009
BIOL 710 Advanced Biometry (3) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 711 Immunoassays (3) Fall 2008
BIOL 712 Biomedical Chemistry Laboratory (1-3) Effective Spring 2006
BIOL 712 Variable topics:
  BIOL 712 Proteomic Techniques (3) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 713 Advances in Biomedical Chemistry (1-3) Effective Spring 2006
BIOL 713 Variable topics:
  BIOL 713 Cell Adhesion Molecules in Health and Disease (2) Effective Fall 2006
  BIOL 713 Clinical Toxicology Principles and Lab Practices (2) Spring 2009
  BIOL 713 Drug Monitoring Pharmacology (2) Effective Fall 2006
  BIOL 713 Mediators of Inflammation in Health and Disease (3) Spring 2008
BIOL 714 Biomedical Enzymology (3) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 715 Biomedical Chemistry Advanced Topics (1) Effective Fall 2006
BIOL 716 Skills for Scientific Proposal Writing (2) Fall 2009
BIOL 730 Pharmacology (3) Fall 2006
BIOL 731 Animal Physiology Laboratory (4) Spring 2009
BIOL 732 Biology and Chemistry of Signaling Pathways (3) Fall 2004
BIOL 737 Plant Metabolism (3) Fall 2008
BIOL 738 Bioinformatics & Genome Annotation (4) Fall 2009
BIOL 741 Electron Microscopy (4) Fall 2006
BIOL 743 Cell and Molecular Techniques (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 756 Principles of Human Genetics (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 760 Cancer Biology (3) Spring 2006
BIOL 761 Molecular and Cellular Immunology I (2-3) Effective Fall 2006
BIOL 761 Variable topics:
  BIOL 761 Molecular and Immunology I (3) Effective Fall 2006
  BIOL 761 Molecular and Immunology I (2) Effective Fall 2006
BIOL 763 Advances in Biomedical Immunology (1-3) Effective Spring 2006
BIOL 763 Variable topics:
  BIOL 763 Autoimmune Responses (2) Effective Fall 2006
  BIOL 763 Autoimmune Responses (3) Effective Fall 2006
  BIOL 763 Immunoregulation (3) Effective Fall 2006
  BIOL 763 Molecular Biology of Cancer (2) Fall 2009
  BIOL 763 Molecular and Cellular Immunology II (3) Effective Fall 2006
  BIOL 763 Novel Vaccine Strategies (2) Effective Fall 2006
  BIOL 763 Novel Vaccine Strategies (3) Effective Fall 2006
  BIOL 763 Transplantation Immunology I (3) Effective Fall 2006
  BIOL 763 Transplantation Immunology II (2) Effective Fall 2006
BIOL 765 Biomedical Immunology Advanced Topics (1-2) Effective Fall 2006
BIOL 765 Variable topics:
  BIOL 765 Biomedical Immunology Advanced Topics (1) Effective Fall 2006
  BIOL 765 Biomedical Immunology Advanced Topics (2) Fall 2008
BIOL 771 Public Health Microbiology (3) Effective Fall 2006
BIOL 772 Molecular Methods in Medical Microbiology (4) Effective Fall 2009
BIOL 773 Advances in Biomedical Microbiology (1-3) Effective Spring 2006
BIOL 773 Variable topics:
  BIOL 773 Core Concepts of Biotechnology (2) Fall 2008
  BIOL 773 Forensic DNA (2) Spring 2006
  BIOL 773 Molecular Medical Microbiology (2) Effective Fall 2006
  BIOL 773 Molecular Medical Parasitology (2) Effective Fall 2006
  BIOL 773 Opportunistic Infections (2) Effective Fall 2006
  BIOL 773 Pharmacology of Antibiotics (2) Fall 2007
  BIOL 773 Sexually Transmitted Diseases (2) Effective Fall 2006
BIOL 774 Nucleic Acid Probe Methods: Clinical Laboratory Application (2) Effective Fall 2006
BIOL 775 Biomedical Microbiology Advanced Topics (2) Spring 2006
BIOL 781 Biomedical Virology Foundations (1-3) Effective Spring 2006
BIOL 781 Variable topics:
  BIOL 781 Human Retroviruses (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 781 Medical Molecular Biology (3) Effective Fall 2006
BIOL 782 Developmental Biology (3) Fall 2009
BIOL 783 Advances in Biomedical Virology (1-3) Effective Spring 2006
BIOL 783 Variable topics:
  BIOL 783 Medical Virology (2) Effective Fall 2006
  BIOL 783 Viral Disease and Apoptosis (2) Effective Fall 2006
  BIOL 783 Viruses in Gene Therapy (2) Effective Spring 2006
BIOL 784 Biomedical Virology Applications (1-3) Effective Spring 2006
BIOL 784 Variable topics:
  BIOL 784 Cell Culture and Stem Cell Techniques (2) Fall 2009
  BIOL 784 Diagnostic Virology (2) Effective Fall 2006
BIOL 785 Biomedical Virology Advanced Topics (2) Spring 2007
BIOL 791 Erythrocyte Hematology (2) Effective Fall 2006
BIOL 792 Molecular Virology (4) Effective Spring 2009
BIOL 793 Advances in Biomedical Hematology (1-3) Effective Spring 2006
BIOL 793 Variable topics:
  BIOL 793 Abnormal Hemoglobins and Thalassemias (2) Effective Fall 2006
  BIOL 793 Bone Marrow Hematology (2) Effective Fall 2006
  BIOL 793 Hemolytic Anemia (2) Effective Fall 2006
  BIOL 793