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Arts and Sciences graduates are career-ready, broadly educated and prepared to make a positive difference in the world.

Bachelor of Arts in Biology (Secondary Education)

Understand and respect the patterns and processes of the living world. You will develop technical and analytical skills needed to identify and evaluate the significance of biological problems across all levels of organization, from the cell to the biosphere.

Integrate the societal implications and consequences of contributions made in the field with an understanding of the moral and ethical decisions related to the life sciences. In this manner, you will develop a personal philosophy of the living world that includes compassion and responsible action toward all life.

The biology major is offered as a major only for students seeking secondary education certification.

Students seeking certification to teach must have a major area of study. This major area must include 30 semester credit hours of courses.

For detailed curriculum and more please visit the Course Catalog entry for this program.

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