Undergraduate Program

• Overview
  • About us
  • New Curriculum
  • Contact information
• People
  • Faculty
  • Staff
  • Postdocs and Visitors
• Information for Prospective Students
  • General information
  • Admissions criteria
  • Application procedure
  • International students
  • Living in San Juan
• Information for New and Current Students
  • General information
  • Academic evaluation
  • Mentorship
  • Counseling
  • Ungergraduate studies milestones
  • Certificates
  • Honors and awards
  • Honors Program
  • Internships and job opportunities
  • Students associations
• Courses
  • Course requirements
  • Course offerings
  • Course catalogue
• Research for Undergraduate Students
  • General description
  • Research opportunities
  • BIOL 4990

About us

The Biology Department at UPR with its new undergraduate curriculum offers a versatile program that will prepare students for a graduate career in science or for medical school and related health-allied professions. Students not interested in these options, will find a broad range of courses that when coordinated with those offered by other departments in the College of Natural Sciences, will prepare them to understand the increasing complexities of a world in which science, and biology in particular, play a fundamental role in dealing with ethical, medical, economic, and environmental problems among others.

We have a group of extremely well qualified Faculty that are involved in cutting edge research programs of international recognition, and offer motivating classes in their areas of expertise. The Department of Biology has traditionally encouraged students to get involved in research at various levels.

New curriculum

The Department of Biology completed a review of its undergraduate curriculum following a new mandate by the Univeristy of Puerto Rico that emphasizes an education where creativity and research are of uttermost importance. The new curriculum offers students a greater flexiblity for taking courses and stimulates inter and multidisciplinary work. The implementation of the new curriculum began in 2007 and students that entered that year may work towards obtaining a bachelor degree in Biology with emphasis in Cellular-Molecular or Integrative Biology. Students that entered before 2007 have the option to transfer to the new programs.

The area of Integrative Biology seeks to understand life through the integration of knowledge from multiple levels of biological organization ranging from molecules to ecosystems. Students entering this area will receive a solid preparation in genetics, evolution, the structure and funcion of organisms, and ecology.

The area of Cellular-Molecular Biology seeks to understand life through the study of the molecular, structural, and physiological mechanisms that makes cells, the basic units upon which organisms are built, what they are. Students that choose this area will receive a soild preparation in genetics, biochemistry, and cellular biology.

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