Additional Resources/
Four Year Plan Graduate Course Offerings

For undergraduate course offerings, click here.

For course offerings designed for pre-service and in-service teachers, including our BIOT303 and BIOT403 methods courses, click here.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The Biology Department has renumbered all of its courses so that all courses will have a BIO or BIOT prefix.The new course numbers are listed in the 2009-2011 course catalog but will not appear in the course schedule until winter 2010. Courses with a BIOT prefix will not count toward a biology major or minor. The list below reflects both the new and the old course numbers. Please contact the department (mlaporte@emich.edu) if you have questions about these changes.

Below is the planned schedule of graduate course offerings for the next four years. This schedule is subject to change based on instructor availability, but is an accurate representation of anticipated course offerings for our graduate programs. When we are unable to offer a specific course, we will attempt to provide a suitable alternative. Please contact the department (mlaporte@emich.edu) if you have questions about these offerings. See the EMU course catalog for more information about each course.

Courses marked FL will be offered at our Fish Lake Field Station. See the Fish Lake website for a full listing of spring-summer 2009 courses. We will be offering a variety of special topics courses, including the Biology of Arachnids, which is an elective that can be used toward the Ecology and Organismal Biology or General Biology Master's programs, as well as courses intended for in-service teachers.

2008-2013 Biology Course Offerings 2008 2009 2009 2009 2009 2010 2010 2010 2010 2011 2011 2011 2011 2012 2012 2012
NEW PREFIX/ NUMBER OLD PREFIX/ NUMBER COURSE TITLE FA WI SP SU FA WI SP SU FA WI SP SU FA WI SP SU
BIO501 BIOL589 Proposal Development in Biology                      
BIO502 BIOL593 Seminar in Biology                          
BIO509 BIOL509 Statistics for Biologists                          
NEW PREFIX/ NUMBER OLD PREFIX/ NUMBER COURSE TITLE 2008 2009 2009 2009 2009 2010 2010 2010 2010 2011 2011 2011 2011 2012 2012 2012
      FA WI SP SU FA WI SP SU FA WI SP SU FA WI SP SU

BIO510

BIOL522 Limnology                          
BIO511 ZOOL439G Animal Physiological Ecology
                           
BIO412G BIOL412G Biogeography

                           
BIO513 BIOL535 Wetland Ecosystems                            
BIO514 BIOL536 Terrestrial Ecosystems                            
BIO415G MICR442G Microbial Ecology
                           
NEW PREFIX/ NUMBER OLD PREFIX/ NUMBER COURSE TITLE 2008 2009 2009 2009 2009 2010 2010 2010 2010 2011 2011 2011 2011 2012 2012 2012
      FA WI SP SU FA WI SP SU FA WI SP SU FA WI SP SU
BIO526 BIOL526 Immunobiology
                       
BIO527 BIOL527 Immuno-biological Methods                                
BIO528 MICR520 General Virology                            
BIO429G MICR455G Bacterial Pathogenesis                                
NEW PREFIX/ NUMBER OLD PREFIX/ NUMBER COURSE TITLE 2008 2009 2009 2009 2009 2010 2010 2010 2010 2011 2011 2011 2011 2012 2012 2012
      FA WI SP SU FA WI SP SU FA WI SP SU FA WI SP SU

BIO540

BIOL540 Cell Biology
                               
BIO542 BIOL542 Molecular Genetics                            
BIO543 BIOL543 Developmental Biology                          
BIO544 BIOL544 Tissue Culture Techniques                        
BIO545 BIOL545 Recombinant DNA Techniques                            
BIO546 BIOL401G Genome Analysis

                       
BIO547 BIOL418G Scanning Electron Microscopy                        
BIO548 BIOL551 Bioinformatics                        
NEW PREFIX/ NUMBER OLD PREFIX/ NUMBER COURSE TITLE 2008 2009 2009 2009 2009 2010 2010 2010 2010 2011 2011 2011 2011 2012 2012 2012
      FA WI SP SU FA WI SP SU FA WI SP SU FA WI SP SU
BIO555 BOTN550 Plant Evolution & Classification (formerly Systematic Botany)
            FL             FL
BIO556 BOTN551 Freshwater Algae

                           
BIO557 BOTN552 Aquatic Plants

    FL             FL        
BIO558 BOTN554 Trees & Shrubs

                       
NEW PREFIX/ NUMBER OLD PREFIX/ NUMBER COURSE TITLE 2008 2009 2009 2009 2009 2010 2010 2010 2010 2011 2011 2011 2011 2012 2012 2012
      FA WI SP SU FA WI SP SU FA WI SP SU FA WI SP SU
BIO570 BIOL511 Biological Aspects of Aging                        
BIO572 ZOOL462G Parasitology
                           
BIO473G ZOOL445G Concepts Animal Physiology                            
BIO474G ZOOL431G Comparative Anatomy
                       
BIO576 ZOOL536 Mammalian Histology (formerly Vertebrate Tissues: Structure & Function)
                       
NEW PREFIX/ NUMBER OLD PREFIX/ NUMBER COURSE TITLE 2008 2009 2009 2009 2009 2010 2010 2010 2010 2011 2011 2011 2011 2012 2012 2012
      FA WI SP SU FA WI SP SU FA WI SP SU FA WI SP SU
BIO580 ZOOL570 Natural History of Invertebrates                            
BIO581 ZOOL571 Natural History of Vertebrates     FL     FL     FL     FL  
BIO582 ZOOL572 Ichthyology
                           
BIO583 ZOOL586 Mammalogy
                           
BIO584 ZOOL574 Herpetology                                
BIO585 ZOOL575 Ornithology
          FL              FL   
BIO586 ZOOL585 Entomology