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Over 800 students pursue
baccalaureate degrees offered through the Department of
Biological Sciences. Undergraduates form the vast
majority of students whom we teach, and our reputation
is based largely on how they represent us in business
and industry, in graduate and professional schools, and
as teachers following graduation. They become the alumni
who actively support our programs, students, and
faculty.
We offer our
undergraduates the opportunity to study toward either a
bachelor of science degree in Biological Sciences or a
bachelor of science degree in Marine Biology at both our
Hattiesburg campus and our
Gulf Coast
campus.
B.S. Biological Sciences.
Students may focus their studies in one of five emphasis
areas: environmental biology, microbiology, molecular
biology, general biology, and teacher licensure. The
latter prepares and certifies students to teach biology
in junior and senior high school. Premedical, dental,
and other preprofessional students may undertake an
emphasis area or in consultation with their
preprofessional adviser design a program of elective
course work that meets their own interests and fulfills
the standards of the professional school they wish to
enter.
Click on the emphasis area below to get a detailed
description of the degree plan requirements:
Emphasis area degree plan
requirements
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2 + 2 Guidelines for Junior/community
college transfer students
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B.S. Marine Biology. The University of
Southern Mississippi is one of only a few institutions
in the United States to offer a bachelor of science
degree in marine biology. Our program is offered in
partnership with the
Department of Coastal Sciences and focuses on
biological aspects of coastal plain environments,
estuaries, and barrier islands of Mississippi. Classes
are offered during the regular academic year at both the
Hattiesburg and the Long Beach campuses, and specialized
upper-level courses are taught during the
Summer Field Program at the
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs,
Mississippi. Students interested in further information
about this program may contact
Dr. Patricia
Biesiot, associate professor of biological sciences,
(601)266-4751.
Click here
 to get a detailed description of
the degree plan requirements for the B.S. in Marine
Biology. (BS MarBio 2+2 guideline for Junior/community college transfer students)
Click here
to get logistical information
about the B.S. in Marine Biology and for a sample course
sequence for a B.S. in Marine Biology.
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