Student Profile
Laura
Gutierrez
Jamestown, New York
Major: Biology
Minor: Psychology
"The faculty here is amazing....Their enthusiasm for biology is contagious."
Laura Gutierrez has always been fascinated with living organisms — and
learning how things work. After exploring biology through introductory
courses, Laura decided to concentrate in plant biology, narrowing her
focus to plant physiology and hormones.
Learn more about Laura here.
The Biology Department
Allegheny's biology students learn by doing. With the
guidance and support of the faculty, they apply scientific methods and
theories learned in the classroom to their own research in the lab or in
the field, discovering first-hand how scientists think and what they do.
Major and Minor Programs
Major in Biology
- Nine Biology courses totalling 34 semester hours: Organismal Physiology
and Ecology; Genetics, Development and Evolution; Investigative Approaches
in Biology; Junior Seminar; two-semester Senior Project and Seminar;
and three 300-level Biology electives. Junior Seminar and Senior Project
allow student selection of topics.
- Required courses in related disciplines: introductory chemistry sequence,
Organic Chemistry I, Calculus I, and two additional courses in math,
chemistry or physics.
- Double and student-designed majors can be arranged (recent double majors:
biology and chemistry, biology and psychology, biology and environmental
science, biology and art, biology and English; recent student-designed
majors: forensics, bioethics, biophysics).
- Cooperative programs in allied health fields, nursing, and marine biology
(see Opportunities).
- Independent study and research projects are encouraged.
Minor in Biology
Coherent set of five Biology courses totalling
20 semester hours: Organismal Physiology and Ecology, Genetics, Development
and Evolution, Investigative Approaches in Biology, and two 300-level Biology
electives. Introductory chemistry sequence and Organic Chemistry I are
also required.