Academic Courses

Here are Adobe PDF versions of the Spring, Summer, Fall Department of Biology schedules. If a semester is not set up as a link then the schedule is not available at this time.

Please see specific degree sheet for how the courses apply to your Major (Biology, Biology with Marine Biology Concentration, or Microbiology) or make an appointment with your advisor. Students with majors in other departments should see their advisor to determine which courses apply to their degree.

The information below will help you when you are using the links to the right to review course information.

Key For General Course Information

Code	Explanation
Lab Indicator:	In science and other areas, a "C" or "L" after the course number is known as a lab indicator. The "C" represents a combined lecture and laboratory course. The "L" represents a laboratory course or the laboratory part of a course, having the same prefix and course number without a lab indicator, which may meet at a different time or place.
Old	Code previously used to identify the course
Lec	Lecture
(#)	Course Semester Credit Hours - Credits separated by a hyphen indicate =variable credit
NS	Course may count toward the Liberal Arts General Education Requirement for Natural Sciences
MW	Course may count toward the Liberal Arts Exit Requirement for Major Works and Major Issues
AS*	College of Arts and Sciences
BIO*	Department of Biology

Course prefix

The course prefix is a three-letter designator for a major division of an academic discipline, subject matter area, or sub-category of knowledge. The prefix is not intended to identify the department in which a course is offered. Rather, the content of a course determines the prefix designation.

In other words, just because a course has a Biology prefix (BOT, BSC, ENY, MCB, PCB, and ZOO), does not mean that the course is a majors course or that is offered by the Department of Biology. If the course does not contain the AS BIO coding, it is not our course. (For example: BSC 2085 is a College of Nursing Course)

Key for Prerequisites:

Code	Explanation
PR	prerequisites - course must be completed with C- or better
CR	co-requisites - if not already completed (with C- or better), must be taken concurrently with the course)

Codings under PR/CR:

Code	Explanation
(course), course	All courses outside the parenthesis must be taken, and one of the courses or sets of courses inside the parenthesis must be taken
CI	Consent of Instructor. The student must obtain permission from the Instructor.

Common Course Coding

The Florida Common Course coding is used to list all PR/CR courses. For Biology courses, please refer to the course pages using the links to the right to find the corresponding course name (i.e. BSC 2010/L = Biology I Lecture and Lab). Below is the key to the most common PR/CR from other science departments:

For exceptions to the General Rule for Equivalency refer to the USF Catalogue

Key for Probable Course Scheduling:

The course pages include the following codes for assistance in planning; however, it is based on past course offerings. Due to faculty responsibilities (i.e. research, sabbatical), and varied resources, this code does not guarantee the course scheduling. Please refer to the semester schedule for verification; however, even the semester schedule is subject to change.

Required biology courses are offered at least once a year, and often twice a year. Although almost all biology course electives are offered once a year, some are only offered once every other year, or only during the summer.

Code	Explanation
F	Course is most likely offered in Fall semester
S	Course is most likely offered in Spring semester
U	Course is most likely offered in Summer semester
B	Course is most likely offered every other year