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Registration Information for Summer and Fall 2008
BIOS 230: Hold removed
The "Department Approval" hold has been removed for BIOS 230 (CRN 27656). You should be able to register for this course without any further delay. As long as you have credit in BIOS 101 and CHEM 112, you may register for this course.
BIOS 430: Evolution - Now added for the Fall 2008 semester!
The Departmental Approval hold has been removed for BIOS 430 for Fall 2008 semester. Any student who meets the prerequisite (BIOS 220) may register for this course. BIOS 430 is a 4 credit hour lecture & discussion course. The course will cover the mechanisms of genetic and phenotypic stability and change in populations and species; modes of speciation and macroevolution; and, trends in evolution.
Biochemistry I, BIOS/CHEM 452
Biochemistry I, BIOS/CHEM 452, is controlled by the Department of Chemistry. If you try to register for
this course and encounter a "Departmental Approval Required" hold, you must contact the Department of
Chemistry for information. The Department of Biological Sciences will not be able to tell you why the hold
exists or be able to override it for you.
Tropical Ecology Course
We are offering a tropical ecology course this fall. It is listed as BIOS 490, Topics in Ecology and Evolution, and will be taught by Dr. Henry Howe on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:00 to 3:15 p.m. This course will involve approximately 4 weeks of lecture on general issues in tropical ecology, followed by 10 weeks of discussion of primary literature on current topics, determined by the interests of participants in the class. Here is a quote from Dr. Howe on the basis for the course: "Tropical ecology is a timely topic of wide concern. Much of modern ecology developed in Europe and North America fashioned around interactions among a few species in any one place (e.g. a forest in Illinois with 2-3 common and 4-5 uncommon tree species), which is a huge distortion when attempting to think about much of the world, such as moderately diverse communities (e.g. a Mexican or Tanzanian forest with 20-30 moderately common species, and 200 uncommon or rare species of trees), much less a hyperdiverse Brazilian, Peruvian, or Malaysian forest (2-5 moderately common, 40-60 uncommon, and 900-1200 rare species of trees). Intellectual challenges of applying ecological principles are quite different when the vast majority species do not interact consistently with most other species."
Major Registration Restriction
Starting spring 2008 only students in Physics, Teaching of Physics, Teaching of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Neuroscience, Chemistry, Bioengineering, Biological Sciences, and Earth & Environmental Sciences majors may register for 300- and 400-level BIOS classes. Biological Sciences minors and students who have recently declared the above majors are also restricted from the classes. All students wishing to take these classes who need an override (including pre-health students not in one of the above majors) will be permitted to register for them during the open registration period beginning April 28. This website has a waiting list for pre-health students. All other students wishing to enroll in these classes must send an email to Jason Cashmore (cashmore@uic.edu) or Tricia Stark (tricia@uic.edu) on or after April 28. Any emails sent before this date will be deleted. Please include your UIN, the courses you wish to register for, and the term.
BIOS 335 History of Life
There is a Departmental Approval Required hold on BIOS 335 because the department is not certain whether the course will be offered in the fall. At this time it appears unlikely that the course will be offered. If we decide to offer the course the hold will be removed. No students are being given an override in the meantime.
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