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Biology (BAS)

This Professional Studies Degree is designed to meet the special demands of adult learners.

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

courses

credit hours (bas)

CORE EXPERIENCE

DBUE 1301 - Foundations for the DBU Experience

3

Professional Studies
DBUE 2301PR - Lifelong Learning (S-L)

3

English

9

ENGL 1301 - Composition and Rhetoric I

ENGL 1302 - Composition and Rhetoric II

and

ENGL 2301 - World Literature I

or

ENGL 2302 - World Literature II

Fine Arts
FINE 1306 - Introduction to Fine Arts

3

History Lower Level (LL)

3

Choose one 3-hour course from HIST LL Course List.

Kinesiology

1

KNES 1101 - Fitness for Living

Mathematics (3-4 hour LL course)

3

Choose one 3-hour course from Math LL Course List.

Natural Science (3-4 hour LL course)
BIOL 1405 - Modern Concepts in Biology I

4

Religion

9

RELI 1301 - Old Testament Survey

RELI 1302 - New Testament Survey

and one additional RELI course from RELI Course List.

Social Science

POLS 2301 American National Government

3

Total Core Experience

41

Additional Program General Education Hours

10

BIOL 1406 - Modern Concepts in Biology II

Choose one 3-hour course from RELI Course List.

Choose one 3-hour course from LANG/BL Language Course List or HIST/FA/SS Course List

Major Core

40

BIOL 2405 - Human Anatomy and Physiology I

BIOL 2406 - Human Anatomy and Physiology II

BIOL 3404 - Genetics (S-L)

BIOL 4101 - Biology Seminar

CHEM 1401 - General Chemistry I

CHEM 1402 - General Chemistry II

MATH 2301 - Elementary Probability and Statistics

Please select an additional 16 hours of biology courses, of which 12 hours must be upper-level biology electives.

Concentration

15

Please select three 4-hour upper level Biology courses and one 3-hour upper level Biology courses to form a 15 credit hour concentration.

Electives*

Upper-Level
Lower or Upper-Level

0
14

Total Credit Hours Required

120

*Inverted Option: Depending on the number of applicable transferred credit hours, a student may be able to use at least 24 technical/occupational credit hours or 24 credit hours in a specific field of study (e.g., credits earned from military transcripts and/or corporate training, etc.) as elective credits for an Inverted Degree. Minimum of 12 credit hours in major in residence at Dallas Baptist University, 9 credit hours of which must be upper-level. Students should coordinate with their academic advisor to determine if an inverted degree would be beneficial/applicable after all transcripts have been officially evaluated.  

A 120-credit-hour minimum for a bachelor's degree is required, including 36 upper-level credit hours.

Minimum GPA Required for Graduation from Dallas Baptist University: DBU requires a minimum institutional cumulative, major, and minor GPA of 2.0. 

(S-L) = Course(s) with field-based service-learning component.

Refer to individual course descriptions for course requisites.

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

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