New College

Curriculum Entering Fall 2005 and After

All students must fulfill the University degree requirements, general studies requirements and the language requirement of the College of Arts and Sciences. For information on these, please consult an adviser in the Advisement, Recruitment and Retention Office (ARRO).

The Integrated Natural Sciences major at ASU's West campus is comprised of a core set of courses and a distribution courses. All the courses in the core must be taken. Courses in the distribution are taken according to general guidelines and the student's plan to emphasize a particular subdiscipline of Life Sciences. A total of 38 credit hours in the Life Sciences is required for graduation.

Core Life Science Courses - all must be taken

 
Core Courses from Cognate Sciences - all must be taken

 
Math requirement - choose one of the following options

or

 
Distribution Courses
Students must take at least 18 hours from these courses. This includes one course from each of the following groups: Cellular, Molecular, and Physiological Biology, Organismal Biology, and Integrative Systems Ecology. No more than 6 semester hours of internship, externship, proseminar, or individualized instruction may count toward the major (LSC 350, 450, 484, 498, or 499)

*These courses are graded on a pass/fail basis
**B.S. students taking Biometry for their mathematics cognate requirement cannot also count it as an elective toward their major.