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Your search for courses · during 26WI · tagged with BIOL Elective · returned 12 results
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BIOL 210 Global Change Biology 6 credits
Environmental problems are caused by a complex mix of physical, biological, social, economic, political, and technological factors. This course explores how these environmental problems affect life on Earth by examining the biological processes underlying natural ecological systems and the effects of global environmental changes such as resources consumption and overharvesting, land-use change, climate warming, pollution, extinction and biodiversity loss, and invasive species.
Sophomore Priority
- Winter 2026
- No Exploration QRE, Quantitative Reasoning
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One Introductory (100-Level) BIOL or CHEM or GEOL course with a lab with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 5 or better on the Biology AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the Biology IB exam or received a Carleton Biology 125 Requisite Equivalency or received a score of 3 or better on the Chemistry AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the Chemistry IB exam.
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BIOL 210.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Daniel Hernández 🏫 👤
- Size:48
- T, THAnderson Hall 036 10:10am-11:55am
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BIOL 240 Genetics 6 credits
A study of the transmission of genetic information between generations of organisms, and of the mechanism of expression of information within an individual organism. The main emphasis will be on the physical and chemical basis of heredity; mutational, transmissional and functional analysis of the genetic material, and gene expression.
Spring Term Sophomore Priority,
Requires concurrent registration in BIOL 241.
Waitlist Information: If you have already registered for BIOL 240 and BIOL 241, but would like to waitlist for a second BIOL 241 lab section, you will need to UNCHECK the box for the lecture section, BIOL 240, prior to completing the waitlist process. If you are offered a seat in the lab, you will be able to register for the lecture at the same time.
- Winter 2026
- No Exploration QRE, Quantitative Reasoning
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Student has completed the following courses: BIOL 125 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 5 or better on the Biology AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the Biology IB exam or received a Carleton Biology 125 Requisite Equivalency or completed Biology A Level Test 1 with a grade of B or better AND BIOL 126 with a grade of C- or better or received a Carleton Biology 126 Requisite Equivalency or completed Biology A Level Test 2 with a grade of B or better.
- BIOL 241: Genetics Laboratory
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BIOL 240.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Stephan Zweifel 🏫 👤
- M, WLeighton 305 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 305 1:10pm-2:10pm
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Spring Term Sophomore Priority, requires concurrent registration in BIOL 241
Waitlist Information: If you would like to waitlist for a BIOL 241 lab section, you will need to UNCHECK the box for the lecture section, BIOL 240, prior to completing the waitlist process. If you are offered a seat in the lab, you will be able to register for the lecture at the same time.
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BIOL 241 Genetics Laboratory 2 credits
Requires concurrent registration in Biology 240.
Waitlist Information: If you have already registered for BIOL 240 and BIOL 241, but would like to waitlist for a second BIOL 241 lab section, you will need to UNCHECK the box for the lecture section, BIOL 240, prior to completing the waitlist process. If you are offered a seat in the lab, you will be able to register for the lecture at the same time.
- Winter 2026
- No Exploration
- BIOL 240: Genetics
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BIOL 241.52 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Stephan Zweifel 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- THulings 203 1:00pm-5:00pm
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Requires concurrent registration in Biology 240.
Waitlist Information: If you would like to waitlist for a BIOL 241 lab section, you will need to UNCHECK the box for the lecture section, BIOL 240, prior to completing the waitlist process. If you are offered a seat in the lab, you will be able to register for the lecture at the same time.
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BIOL 241.54 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Stephan Zweifel 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- THHulings 203 1:00pm-5:00pm
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Requires concurrent registration in Biology 240.
Waitlist Information: If you would like to waitlist for a BIOL 241 lab section, you will need to UNCHECK the box for the lecture section, BIOL 240, prior to completing the waitlist process. If you are offered a seat in the lab, you will be able to register for the lecture at the same time.
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BIOL 241.59 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Stephan Zweifel 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- THHulings 203 8:00am-12:00pm
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Requires concurrent registration in Biology 240.
Waitlist Information: If you would like to waitlist for a BIOL 241 lab section, you will need to UNCHECK the box for the lecture section, BIOL 240, prior to completing the waitlist process. If you are offered a seat in the lab, you will be able to register for the lecture at the same time.
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BIOL 248 Behavioral Ecology 6 credits
Behavioral ecologists strive to understand the complex ways that ecological pressures influence the evolution of behavioral strategies. It can be argued that animals face a relatively small set of basic challenges: they must acquire food, water, and mates, and they must avoid danger. Yet we see a rich diversity of solutions to these problems. Consider foraging behavior, for example. All animals must acquire energy, but some filter particles out of sea water, others graze on nearly inedible grasses, while still others hunt in cooperative packs. In this course we will consider such topics as foraging, communication, sociality, and conflict. By focusing on the functions and evolutionary histories of behaviors, we strive to better understand the puzzle of behavioral diversity.
- Winter 2026
- No Exploration QRE, Quantitative Reasoning
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Student has completed the following courses: BIOL 125 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 5 or better on the Biology AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the Biology IB exam or received a Carleton Biology 125 Requisite Equivalency or completed Biology A Level Test 1 with a grade of B or better AND BIOL 126 with a grade of C- or better or received a Carleton Biology 126 Requisite Equivalency or completed Biology A Level Test 2 with a grade of B or better.
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BIOL 248.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Annie Bosacker 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 402 1:10pm-2:10pm
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BIOL 310 Immunology 6 credits
This course will examine the role of the immune system in defense, allergic reactions, and autoimmunity. Topics to be covered include the structure and function of antibodies, cytokines, the role of the major histocompatibility complex in antigen presentation, cellular immunity, immunodeficiencies, and current techniques used to study immune responses.
- Winter 2026
- No Exploration QRE, Quantitative Reasoning
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): BIOL 125 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 5 or better on the Biology AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the Biology IB exam AND BIOL 126 with a grade of C- or better AND either BIOL 240 or BIOL 280 with a grade of C- or better.
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BIOL 310.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Debby Walser-Kuntz 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WHulings 316 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FHulings 316 1:10pm-2:10pm
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BIOL 332 Human Physiology 6 credits
Human Physiology seeks to understand the fundamental mechanisms responsible for the diverse functions of the body. Course topics include the function and regulation of the various physiological systems (nervous, circulatory, endocrine, excretory, respiratory, digestive, etc.), biochemistry, cellular physiology, homeostasis and acid-base chemistry. The study of human physiology provides the principal groundwork for internal medicine, pharmacology, and other related health fields. The laboratory includes a variety of experiments focusing on the function and regulation of the human body.
BIOL 333 required.
Waitlist Information: If you would like to waitlist for a BIOL 333 lab section, you will need to UNCHECK the box for the lecture section, BIOL 332, prior to completing the waitlist process. If you are offered a seat in the lab, you will be able to register for the lecture at the same time.
- Winter 2026
- No Exploration QRE, Quantitative Reasoning
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Student has completed the following courses: BIOL 125 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 5 or better on the Biology AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the Biology IB exam or received a Carleton Biology 125 Requisite Equivalency or completed Biology A Level Test 1 with a grade of B or better AND BIOL 126 with a grade of C- or better or received a Carleton Biology 126 Requisite Equivalency or completed Biology A Level Test 2 with a grade of B or better.
- BIOL 333: Human Physiology Laboratory
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BIOL 332.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Fernan Jaramillo 🏫 👤
- M, WWeitz Center 235 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 235 12:00pm-1:00pm
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BIOL 333 Human Physiology Laboratory 2 credits
Requires concurrent registration in BIOL 332.
Waitlist Information: If you would like to waitlist for a BIOL 333 lab section, you will need to UNCHECK the box for the lecture section, BIOL 332, prior to completing the waitlist process. If you are offered a seat in the lab, you will be able to register for the lecture at the same time.
- Winter 2026
- No Exploration
- BIOL 332: Human Physiology
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BIOL 333.52 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Fernan Jaramillo 🏫 👤
- Size:24
- THulings 218 1:00pm-5:00pm
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BIOL 333.59 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Fernan Jaramillo 🏫 👤
- Size:24
- THHulings 218 8:00am-12:00pm
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BIOL 350 Evolution 6 credits
Principles and history of evolutionary change in wild populations, with consideration of both microevolutionary and macroevolutionary time scales. Topics covered include causes of change in gene frequency, the nature of adaptation, constraints on evolutionary change, the evolution of genes and proteins, rates of speciation and extinction, and the major events in evolutionary history.
- Winter 2026
- No Exploration QRE, Quantitative Reasoning
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Student has completed the following courses: BIOL 125 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 5 or better on the Biology AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the Biology IB exam or received a Carleton Biology 125 Requisite Equivalency or completed Biology A Level Test 1 with a grade of B or better AND BIOL 126 with a grade of C- or better or received a Carleton Biology 126 Requisite Equivalency or completed Biology A Level Test 2 with a grade of B or better.
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BIOL 350.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Mark McKone 🏫 👤
- Size:40
- M, WLeighton 305 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 305 12:00pm-1:00pm
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BIOL 361 Seminar: Revolutions in Evolution—Key Innovations that Shaped Life on Earth 6 credits
The history of Life on Earth is punctuated by pivotal transitions that fundamentally change the course of evolution from that point forward. We will explore the primary literature that addresses how these seminal evolutionary changes come about. Among the questions we will pursue are: how did life originate? What was the nature of the last universal common ancestor? How did eukaryotes evolve? How did meiosis arise, and why is meiotic sexual reproduction favored over asexual alternatives?
Waitlist Only
- Winter 2026
- No Exploration
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): BIOL 240 or BIOL 338 or BIOL 350 with grade of C- or better.
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BIOL 365 Seminar: Topics in Neuroscience 6 credits
We will focus on recent advances in neuroscience. All areas of neuroscience (cellular/molecular, developmental, systems, cognitive, and disease) will be considered. Classical or foundational papers will be used to provide background.
Waitlist only
- Winter 2026
- No Exploration QRE, Quantitative Reasoning
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Student has completed the following courses: BIOL 125 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 5 or better on the Biology AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the Biology IB exam or received a Carleton Biology 125 Requisite Equivalency or completed Biology A Level Test 1 with a grade of B or better AND BIOL 126 with a grade of C- or better or received a Carleton Biology 126 Requisite Equivalency or completed Biology A Level Test 2 with a grade of B or better.
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BIOL 372 Seminar: Structural Biology 6 credits
The ability to visualize macromolecules at atomic detail has significantly advanced our understanding of macromolecular structure and function. This course will provide an overview of fundamental experimental methodologies underlying structure determination, followed by primary literature-based discussions in which students will present and critically discuss classic foundational papers as well as examples from the current literature that have advanced our understanding of macromolecule structure and function.
- Winter 2026
- No Exploration QRE, Quantitative Reasoning
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): BIOL 125 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 5 or better on the Biology AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the Biology IB exam AND BIOL 126 with a grade of C- or better AND either BIOL 280 or BIOL 380 or BIOC 301 or CHEM 320 with a grade of C- or better.
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IDSC 258 Consensus or Contentious? Controversies in Science Then and Now 2 credits
Almost every global challenge confronting humankind requires some level of engagement with science and technology. However, finding solutions to our most pressing problems also requires an understanding of how science operates within its social, political, and cultural context. This course will explore the relationship between science and society by examining a series of controversies in science from both the past and the present. We will investigate topics such as biological and social concepts of race, the use of unethically obtained scientific results, the ethics of genomics research, legislation over vaccination mandates, “parachute” science, and climate change denial. Examining the role of science in society will help us understand issues related to the use of evidence, expertise, and the relationship between science and politics. By wrestling with current and historic scientific controversies, we will examine the ways in which scientific disagreements are often as much about values as they are about research methods.
- Winter 2026
- No Exploration
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IDSC 258.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤 · Rika Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- WAnderson Hall 323 1:50pm-3:00pm