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Academic advisor Mikayla Tegler talks about the biological sciences major in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
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- [00:00:07.980]Hello, my name is Mikayla Tegler
- [00:00:10.110]and I am one of the assigned advisors
- [00:00:11.830]for biological sciences.
- [00:00:13.710]The other assigned advisor is Wendy O'Connor.
- [00:00:16.590]So first I'm gonna start by talking about
- [00:00:18.680]the requirements for the major.
- [00:00:20.750]We start with the biology core.
- [00:00:23.570]You'll have a Bios 100, pathways to success
- [00:00:26.950]in the biological sciences major.
- [00:00:29.190]This one is actually taught by me and Wendy.
- [00:00:31.520]It's not biology content,
- [00:00:33.390]it's more an orientation to the major.
- [00:00:35.250]We introduce you to biology faculty,
- [00:00:36.990]you get to know other students majoring in biology,
- [00:00:39.950]and we just try to set you up
- [00:00:40.890]for success in your classes here at UNL.
- [00:00:44.200]And then after that all of your classes
- [00:00:45.700]are gonna be biology content.
- [00:00:47.610]So you'll have two semesters
- [00:00:48.950]of fundamentals of biology with lab,
- [00:00:51.010]that's life on 20 and life on 21, and lab.
- [00:00:53.760]You'll have genetics, which is Bios 206,
- [00:00:56.140]an ecology and evolution, which is Bois 207.
- [00:00:59.680]These classes are gonna give you a really solid foundation
- [00:01:02.070]in the biology classes you'll take later on.
- [00:01:05.229]And then your very last semester here you'll have Bios 99,
- [00:01:08.640]which is assessment of the major.
- [00:01:10.610]It's basically a standardized test,
- [00:01:12.390]but it's not really evaluating you.
- [00:01:13.920]We really just wanna know our student is learning,
- [00:01:15.720]what we want them to learn from biology major.
- [00:01:18.150]And then it also includes an exit
- [00:01:19.940]for bay where you can get the department to do that.
- [00:01:23.210]And then we have your biology electives,
- [00:01:25.950]so there are two options for your biology electives.
- [00:01:29.230]There's the Cedar option, which is 18 credit hours,
- [00:01:32.450]and basically you get to pick,
- [00:01:35.080]which biology classes you wanna take for this.
- [00:01:36.990]As your advisors will provide some guidance based
- [00:01:39.330]on your interests and career goals.
- [00:01:41.750]And then there is also a health and disease option,
- [00:01:45.160]where again, you get to pick the classes,
- [00:01:48.060]but they're gonna be from a list of classes
- [00:01:49.930]that are all related to health and disease.
- [00:01:52.320]This option starts at 20 credit hours,
- [00:01:55.310]and the number of credit hours just depends
- [00:01:57.430]on which specific courses you choose.
- [00:01:59.980]So that's the biology major piece,
- [00:02:01.960]and the other required component
- [00:02:03.260]is your ancillary requirements.
- [00:02:05.480]So these are gonna be courses in areas
- [00:02:08.040]that will compliment your knowledge in biology.
- [00:02:11.010]So the math requirement for this major is calculus math 106,
- [00:02:16.400]and then you'll have a chemistry sequence.
- [00:02:19.842]So you'll do two semesters of general chemistry,
- [00:02:22.060]you'll do organic chemistry, and biochemistry.
- [00:02:25.720]You'll have two semesters of physics,
- [00:02:28.150]and then you'll also do an additional math,
- [00:02:30.360]or statistics class,
- [00:02:31.650]and many of our students choose to do statistics.
- [00:02:35.590]So those are the major and ancillary requirements.
- [00:02:39.330]Next I wanna talk a little bit
- [00:02:40.290]about some hands on experiences you can get
- [00:02:42.300]as a biology major at UNL.
- [00:02:44.182]One of the key experiences is research.
- [00:02:47.490]So there are lots of opportunities to do research
- [00:02:50.280]with biology faculty at UNL,
- [00:02:53.250]whether you're really interested in the smaller stuff,
- [00:02:56.140]or genetic, cellular, molecular,
- [00:02:57.730]or the larger things like technology,
- [00:02:59.750]evolution, behavior, works on sort of mix.
- [00:03:02.950]There are also some really neat opportunities
- [00:03:05.260]to do research that combines biology and psychology.
- [00:03:09.520]So lots of great options there.
- [00:03:11.460]You can do research for academic credit,
- [00:03:13.690]and have it count toward your degree and, or, okay.
- [00:03:16.930]And doing research is definitely something you wanna do
- [00:03:19.780]if you're interested in going on to grad school,
- [00:03:22.240]and no matter what you're wanting to do,
- [00:03:23.850]it's a great way to get to know faculty,
- [00:03:26.060]great things like letters of recommendation later on.
- [00:03:29.170]Another really great experience that you can do keep
- [00:03:32.040]the biology department is take a class,
- [00:03:34.740]or you start out at some point biological station.
- [00:03:38.300]Cedar point is located in Western Nebraska
- [00:03:41.260]in the Ogallala Lake McConaughy area.
- [00:03:44.560]You actually go, you stay in a little cabin,
- [00:03:46.940]the faculty stay out there also,
- [00:03:48.730]and they'll eat their meals with you and that kind of thing.
- [00:03:51.000]So again, lots of opportunities to get to know them,
- [00:03:53.370]ask questions, again super helpful
- [00:03:56.160]for things like letters of recommendation later on.
- [00:03:59.750]And the very cool thing about Cedar point
- [00:04:02.480]is you're actually out in the field doing biology hands-on.
- [00:04:07.920]In that Bios thing United Survey I told you about,
- [00:04:10.700]students frequently say they wish they
- [00:04:12.550]had done Cedar point earlier,
- [00:04:14.430]so they could do it twice.
- [00:04:16.310]So something we definitely recommend,
- [00:04:18.190]consider doing during your college career.
- [00:04:21.250]And finally, I wanna talk a little bit
- [00:04:22.730]about career opportunities for students who graduate
- [00:04:26.645]with a degree in biology.
- [00:04:29.520]So many of our students are B-Healthy,
- [00:04:31.800]and we'll go on to a health profession school,
- [00:04:34.650]and then pursue a career in healthcare.
- [00:04:37.700]We also have a lot of students who go on to grad school
- [00:04:40.350]in biology and related areas.
- [00:04:43.570]There are lots of careers available,
- [00:04:45.130]in things like research, environmental management,
- [00:04:49.040]and conservation, education,
- [00:04:52.920]biotechnology, forensic biology,
- [00:04:55.740]a lot of students work in labs, those kinds of things.
- [00:04:59.140]And one of the neat things about biology at UNL
- [00:05:02.880]is we actually partner with our college
- [00:05:05.040]of arts and sciences career coaches
- [00:05:06.920]to do some science career events
- [00:05:09.760]and bring science and careers campus (mumbles).
- [00:05:14.597]And that's it.
- [00:05:15.430]Thank you.
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