Program Overview
College of Natural and Health Sciences
General Doctoral Degree Admission Requirements
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Chair: Scott Franklin, PhD.
Coordinator: Lauryn Benedict, PhD.
Location: Ross Hall 2480
Telephone: 970-351-2921
Website: www.unco.edu/nhs/biology/
This program is designed for graduate students interested in specializing in either biology education or an area of the biological sciences that matches current faculty interests and expertise. Areas of emphasis in this program prepare students to conduct and supervise biological or pedagogical research and to instruct biology courses at the college or university level.
Students are strongly encouraged to review the research areas of the Biology faculty on our website and contact faculty in whose research they are interested. The student must meet with a graduate advisor and graduate committee no later than the second semester of the program to determine a course of study.
Degree Requirements — 64 Credits
Pedagogical Credits — 10 credits
| BIO 631 | Teaching College Biology | 3 |
| BIO 632 | College Biology Course Development | 3 |
| BIO 792 | Doctoral Supervised Teaching | 1- 6 |
Content Elective Credits — 26 credits
Research Core — 12 credits
| BIO 594 | Foundations of Biological Research | 2 |
| BIO 691 | Seminar in Biological Sciences | 1 |
| SRM 700 | Advanced Research Methods | 3 |
Choose 1 of the following courses:
Research Proposal/Dissertation — 16 credits
| BIO 797 | Doctoral Proposal Research | 1- 4 |
| BIO 799 | Doctoral Dissertation | 1-12 |
Program Notes
Students must complete a minimum of 50 semester hours in biological science of combined undergraduate and graduate courses.
SRM 502 and SRM 700 may be waived depending on course background of the student.
Students in this program are exempt from the 94 graduate credit hours to Ph.D. minimum policy.