About the Program
This program meets the lower division major preparation for a similar major at CSU, Chico. Visit website for details www.assist.org
This major also serves as a basis for pre-medicine, pre-dentistry and pre-veterinarian students.
Program Requirements
For current program requirements -> 2024-2025
Program Goal: Local
GE Pattern(s): Butte Local
Program Code: 01306.00AS
Program Learning Outcome(s):
Upon successful completion of this program, the student will be able to:
Critically analyze and accurately express an understanding of scientific work in the context of the scientific method.
Demonstrate academic skills needed for success in biology after transfer.
Apply knowledge of fundamental biological principles such as evolution and taxonomy and ecological, physiological and molecular processes.
Correctly employ scientific techniques and correctly use scientific equipment.
Unit(s): 5.00
Recommended Prep: Reading Level IV; English Level IV
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
/ 102.00 hours Lab
Total Course Hours: 153.00
This course is intended for majors, and includes a survey of animal phyla and non-photosynthetic, single-celled, eukaryotic taxa. It covers the comparative structure, function, and life cycles of animals, as well as principles of evolution, taxonomy, and systematics. Topics include development, morphology and physiology, phylogeny, and behavior of animals, as well as principles of evolution, mechanisms of evolutionary change, and speciation. (C-ID BIOL 150).
Unit(s): 5.00
Recommended Prep: Reading Level IV; English Level IV
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
/ 102.00 hours Lab
Total Course Hours: 153.00
This course is intended for majors and covers comparative diversity, structure, and function of plant, fungal, and protistan phyla. Topics include development, morphology and physiology, taxonomy and systematics. Principles of population and community ecology and ecosystem interactions are emphasized. (C-ID BIOL 155).
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 1
Unit(s): 5.00
Recommended Prep: BIOL 11 or BIOL 12 and Reading Level IV; English Level IV
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
/ 102.00 hours Lab
Total Course Hours: 153.00
This course is an introductory study of procaryotic and eucaryotic cell structure and function as well as basic viral structure and reproduction. Attention is given to life processes within cells and to interactions between cells. Coverage includes experimental design and statistical analysis; basic biotechnology concepts and techniques; DNA structure, function and gene expression; enzyme function; energetics; nutrient cycles in ecosystems; transport mechanisms; cytoskeletal components; cell communication (including nerve impulse conduction and signal transduction); cell reproduction; Mendelian and population genetics; cell evolution; and modern concepts of molecular biology. This course is designed for biology majors. Offered Spring only. (C-ID BIOL 190).
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 110 or one year of high school chemistry,
Unit(s): 5.00
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
/ 102.00 hours Lab
Total Course Hours: 153.00
This course introduces students to the basic principles of chemistry with a quantitative emphasis. Topics include atomic theory, chemical bonding, molecular geometry, chemical reactions, stoichiometry, gases, thermochemistry, intermolecular forces and solutions. This is the first semester of a one-year course in chemistry intended for majors in the natural sciences (chemistry, biochemistry, biology, physics, pre-medicine), mathematics, and engineering. The two-semester sequence of CHEM 1 and CHEM 2 provides the basic chemical background needed for further investigations into our physical environment. (C-ID CHEM 110/120S).
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 1
Unit(s): 5.00
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
/ 102.00 hours Lab
Total Course Hours: 153.00
This course is a continuation of CHEM 1, General Chemistry I. Topics include chemical kinetics and equilibrium, acid-base and solubility equilibria, thermodynamics, oxidation-reduction, electrochemistry, coordination compounds, nuclear chemistry, introduction to organic chemistry and qualitative analysis. This is the second semester of a one-year course in chemistry intended for majors in the natural sciences (chemistry, biochemistry, biology, physics, pre-medicine), mathematics, and engineering. The two-semester sequence of CHEM 1 and CHEM 2 provides the basic chemical background needed for further investigations into our physical environment. (C-ID CHEM 120S) (C-ID CHEM 120S = CHEM 1 and CHEM 2).
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 2
Unit(s): 5.00
Recommended Prep: Reading Level IV; English Level IV
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
/ 102.00 hours Lab
Total Course Hours: 153.00
This is the first course in a year-long study of organic chemistry designed for students majoring in chemistry and related science disciplines. It covers fundamental principles of organic chemistry including structure, nomenclature, conformational analysis and stereochemistry. The physical properties, reactions and reaction mechanisms of alkanes, alkyl halides, alcohols, ethers, alkenes, alkynes, and allylic systems are studied. Infrared spectroscopy and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy are discussed in detail. (C-ID CHEM 150 & 160S).
Prerequisite(s): MATH 20 or high school trigonometry
Unit(s): 4.00
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
/ 51.00 hours Lab
Total Course Hours: 102.00
This course is intended for students not majoring in physics or engineering but needing a one-year course in physics as a requirement for their major program. The course is part of a two-semester sequence whose contents may be offered in other sequences or combinations at articulated institutions. Topics include kinematics, dynamics, work and energy, momentum, fluids and simple harmonic motion. (C-ID PHYS 105).
Prerequisite(s): PHYS 21
Unit(s): 4.00
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
/ 51.00 hours Lab
Total Course Hours: 102.00
This course is intended for students not majoring in physics or engineering but needing a one-year course in physics as a requirement for their major program. The course is the second part of a two-semester sequence beginning with PHYS 21. Core topics include: electrostatics, magnetism, DC circuits, optics and modern physics. (C-ID PHYS 110).
Unit(s): 3.00
Recommended Prep: Reading Level IV; English Level III
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 51.00
This course introduces students to the principles of 'Sustainability' within the global, national, regional, and local contexts. This course will increase students' literacy of the three interconnected 'pillars' of sustainable systems, the ecosystem, human society, and the economy. To develop these literacies, students will begin by investigating the perils that currently effect each system, for example, resource depletion, species extinction, pollution, and global warming in the ecosphere; population growth, social inequality, disease, violence and conflict in human societies; and imperialism, unemployment, consumerism and waste in the global economy. The majority of the course will focus on social institutions and organizations that are re-imagining our common future by rethinking and redesigning how we live. Students will learn of new and innovative uses of renewable resources, production processes, and human capital; alternative forms of energy, transportation, building materials, food production, media, education, and urban planning; and new ways to build coalitions, community, trust, and democratic participation. Case studies will highlight sustainability practices in different parts of the world from a variety of perspectives.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 116 or MATH 124
Unit(s): 4.00
Recommended Prep: Two years high-school algebra and Reading Level IV
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
68.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 68.00
Presents a study of the techniques of calculus with emphasis placed on the application of these concepts to business and management related problems. The applications of derivatives and integrals of functions including polynomials, rational, exponential and logarithmic functions are studied. (C-ID MATH 140).
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Contacts
Gary Lechner, Chair
(530) 893-7416
Department Office: TE 132
(530) 879-6106
Counseling and Advising:
(530) 895-2378
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