The Human Biology major is a catch-all designed to prepare students who are interested in pursuing graduate school in the health sciences, especially chiropractic school, physical therapy and physician's assistant programs. It offers a concentration in pre-chiropractic and a more general concentration in pre-health care.

History of the Department

Faculty

Matt Cruzen, Ph.D.; Department chair, teaches General Biology I, Cell & Molecular Biology (lecture and lab), and Biochemistry I and II.

Ruth Ebeling, M.S.; teaches Neurobiology, Human Anatomy (lecture and lab), Vertebrate Physiology (lecture and lab), and Prosection.

Harvey Havoonjian, M.D.; teaches Human Anatomy Lab and Parasitology Lab.

Jason Tresser, Ph.D.; teaches General Biology I (lecture and lab), Genetics (lecture and lab), Directed Research in Biology (on tunicates), Advanced Seminar in Biology, and Biochemistry lab.

Wendy Billock, Ph.D.; teaches General Principles of Biology, General Biology II (lecture and lab), Ecology (lecture and lab), and Marine Biology (lecture and lab).

Albert Lin, Ph.D.; teaches Physiology (lecture and lab), Microbiology (lecture and lab), Immunology, and Advanced Seminar in Biology.

Pre-Chiropractic Concentration

The pre-chiropractic concentration is offered in cooperation with the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic (LACC) at Southern California University of the Health Sciences, with upper divison biology courses taken at LACC.

Biology

BIOS 111, 112 - General Biology I and II

BIOS 111L, 112L - General Biology Lab I and II

BIOS 252 - Human Anatomy

BIOS 281 - Physiology

Chemistry

CHEM 105, 106 - General Chemistry I and II

CHEM 105L, 106L - General Chemistry Lab I and II

CHEM 301, 302 - Organic Chemistry I and II

CHEM 311, 312 - Organic Chemistry Lab I and II

Other Requirements

MATH 101, 105 or 210 - Precalculus, Calculus I or Probability & Statistics

PHSC 111, 112 - General Physics I and II for non-physics majors
PHSC 111L, 112L - General Physics Lab I and II for non-physics majors

Upper division courses taken at LACC

ANO 102 - Anatomy, Physiology, Histology I

ANO 203 - Anatomy, Physiology, Histology II

ANO 304 - Anatomy, Physiology, Histology III

BNO 102 - Human Biochemistry

PMO 301 - General Pathology

Pre-Health Care Professionals Concentration

The Pre-Health Care concentration was originally called the pre-physical therapy concentration and required courses more specific to kinesiology, another undergraduate major at Biola University.

Biology

BIOS 111, 112 - General Biology I and II

BIOS 111L, 112L - General Biology Lab I and II

BIOS 252 - Human Anatomy

BIOS 281 - Physiology

BIOS 311 - Neurobiology

BIOS 312 - Cell & Molecular Biology

BIOS 322 - Cell & Molecular Biology Lab

Chemistry

CHEM 105, 106 - General Chemistry I and II

CHEM 301, 311 - Organic Chemistry I (lecture and lab)

Physics

PHSC 111, 112 - General Physics I and II for non-physics majors

PHSC 111L, 112L - General Physics I and II Lab for non-physics majors

Other requirements

MATH 210 - Intro to Probability and Statistics

PEED 301 - Kinesiology OR PEED 302 - Physiology of Exercise

PSYC 200 - Introduction to Psychology

PSYC 309 - Abnormal Psychology OR PSYC 320 - Developmental Psychology

16 units of electives, 12 of which must be upper division. Some of the options include:

BIOS 282 - Microbiology

BIOS 310 - Prosection

BIOS 332 - Genetics

BIOS 352 - Marine Biology

BIOS 401 - General Ecology

BIOS 402 - Parasitology

BIOS 411, 412 - Biochemistry I and II

BIOS 442 - Immunology

BIOS 450 - Directed Research

CHEM 302, 312 - Organic Chemistry II (lecture and lab)

PSYC 325 - Developmental Psychology: Childhood & Adolescents