BIOL 101Biology in the Modern World
- Faculty
- Science
- Last listed
- Spring 2020
No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2020 and last ran in Winter 2020. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.
When it ran
- W20
Ran in 1 term, Winter 2020 to Winter 2020.
This course will introduce a variety of fundamental concepts of biology to non-majors. The goal is to improve scientific literacy. Topics will include the scientific method, biodiversity, genetics, evolution, physiology, and ecology. [Note: Offered in Winter of even years]
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: Not open to students in a Biology plan. Antireq: Any university 300/400 BIOL course
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Discussed on r/uwaterloo
2 posts and comments in 2 threads mention BIOL 101, October 2015 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Spring 2019
Help with course selection??? (First year math student) 3 points, 3 comments
“So I now math course selection has happened already but due to extenuating circumstances I'm just doing it now. Right now I'm considering either pure math or biostatistics for my major. …”
u/BubonicPython: “… BIOL 239, 101 courses tend to be a lot of shallow material and really dry I've found, and once you get into the 200 courses things get a lot tougher. …”
Fall 2015
Anybody taken BIOL 101? Is it good if you never took grade 11/12 biology and just want an introduction? 5 points, 2 comments
u/thoughts_10_lone: “… I just wanted to take BIOL 101 because I wanted to just learn basic biology concepts. I thought they might help me with my program. …”
Check it elsewhere
- Undergraduate Calendar, 2019–20Its last calendar entry, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1968–69 to 1968–69, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1968–69 1 calendar
A survey of the types of animals illustrating evolution and those types which are of special interest to man.
2 lectures, 3 hours laboratory.
(This is a terminal course and it is not available to students in the Faculty of Science, except in Optometry. Similarly it is not suitable for students of Physical Education who wish to proceed to a minor in Biology.)