{"id":7,"date":"2010-06-04T18:47:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T18:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/biology\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:56:42","slug":"major","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/academics\/major\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology Major"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"catalog-block catalog-department-listing\"><h3 class=\"catalog-program-title\">Biology<\/h3><p><em>Professors Bavis, Dearborn, Hill (Earth and Climate Sciences and Biology), Horton, and Williams; Associate Professors Huggett (chair), Kruse (Biology and Neuroscience), and Mountcastle; Assistant Professors LeFlore (Biology and Africana) and Shahi; Visiting Assistant Professors Despard and Slane; Lecturer Salazar-Perea.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-84403b53-7fff-c504-b1db-1420e850e092\">Biology is the study of living systems and how they interact with the nonliving world and with one another. It is a discipline that bridges the physical and social sciences. Students who major in biology become familiar with all levels of biological organization from molecules to ecosystems, and gain practical experience in both laboratory and field studies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>More information is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/\" target=\"_blank\">Biology department website<\/a>.<br\/>\n\u00a0<\/p><section class=\"catalog-section_curriculumtext\"><h5>Curriculum<\/h5><div class=\"sitemap\"><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.bates.edu\/departments-programs\/biology\/biology-major\/\">Biology Major<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/section><section class=\"catalog-section_faculty\"><\/section><div class=\"catalog-department-overview-catalog-link\">\n\t\t <p>Our course catalog may include more information on Biology, its programs, courses, and requirements.<\/p>\n\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.bates.edu\/departments-programs\/biology\/\">Full Catalog Listing<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2026\/02\/Biology-Curriculum-New-v1.1.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"696\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2026\/02\/Biology-Curriculum-New-v1.1-900x696.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2026\/02\/Biology-Curriculum-New-v1.1-900x696.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2026\/02\/Biology-Curriculum-New-v1.1-388x300.webp 388w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2026\/02\/Biology-Curriculum-New-v1.1-768x594.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2026\/02\/Biology-Curriculum-New-v1.1-813x628.jpg 813w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2026\/02\/Biology-Curriculum-New-v1.1-1536x1187.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2026\/02\/Biology-Curriculum-New-v1.1-200x155.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2026\/02\/Biology-Curriculum-New-v1.1.webp 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7703,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/7703"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}