BS Degree

Additional requirements for the undergraduate Bachelor of Science in biology include:

  • Thirty credit hours of 100-level courses
  • one year of physics (PHYS 1-2, 5/1005-6)
  • one course in mathematics or statistics

*Note: The courses formally known as BISC 3 and 4 are now BISC 6/1006 and 5/1005 respectively.


An Evolutionary Discovery

Approximately 85 million years ago, a family of bird-like dinosaurs with large claws and short, powerful forearms named Alvarezsauroidea roamed the earth. But after a decade of research, a discovery by GW researchers has revealed previously unknown stages in the dinosaurs’ evolutionary development — and extended their fossil record back another 63 million years.