Biology Program Profile
Biology Program Courses
Biology Support Courses
Biology Faculty
Biology Career Paths
Biology Program Profile
The Biology program is designed to meet student interest and to provide experience in the various life science areas. In its curricular offerings, opportunity is provided to examine the structure, functions, interrelationships, and environmental settings of life forms. At the same time, the student is encouraged to develop skills in using and interpreting biological data, to make use of inductive scientific methods, and to integrate understandings with those arrived at from other disciplines. The Biology program provides a flexible program of academic work which may be modified as the student advances in the program. Concordia’s program in Biology provides a useful foundation for a variety of possible career paths as well as for further study at the graduate level, including medical, veterinary, and physical therapy programs.
Biology Program Courses
Required biology courses:
- Botany
- Zoology
- Biology: History, Process & Methods
Track 1: Health Related and Medicine
- Human Anatomy & Physiology
- Human Sexuality
- Biochemistry
- The Cell
- Heredity & Society
- Genetics
- Biochemistry
- Parasitology
Track 2: Environmental
- Earth Science
- Conservation & Pollution Biology
- General Ecology
- Marine Biology
- Entomology
- General Microbiology
Track 3: General
- Heredity & Society
- Human Anatomy & Physiology
- Human Sexuality
- General Ecology
- General Microbiology
- The Cell
Support Courses
Required:
- General Chemistry
- Probability & Statistics
- Computer Information Systems
Suggested:
- Organic Chemistry
- General Physics
- Calculus
Biology Faculty
Dr. Karen J. Bucher
Program Chair, Assistant Dean of Natural & Social Sciences, and Professor of Biology and Chemistry
Ph.D., M.Phil. in Biochemistry, Columbia
Click here to read Professor Bucher’s profile.
Gerald W. Fuhrmann
Associate Professor of Biology and Earth Science
M.S., University of Bridgeport; B.S., Concordia Teachers College, Seward; St. Paul’s College; St. John’s University; Western Connecticut State University
Victoria Graham
Assistant Professor of Biology
M.S., Iona College; B.A., Concordia College-New York
Biology Career Paths
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Concordia students have gained real-world experience in a variety of professional settings, including:
- Lawrence Hospital, Bronxville
- St. Joseph’s Hospital, Yonkers
- Blythedale Children’s Hospital, Hawthorne
- Scarsdale Physical Therapy
- Malcolm Pirnie Environmental Testing, Eastview
- The Bronx Zoo, Bronx
- The New York Botanical Gardens,
- Bronx Wildlife Conservation Society