{"id":12,"date":"2010-06-08T20:02:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T01:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/biology\/biology-departments-faculty-of-science\/"},"modified":"2019-09-19T11:52:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T16:52:24","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/biology\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biology at Brandon University is about much more than the scientific study of animals, plants and microbes. First year introduces the diversity of life on the planet and explains how genes and cells function. Second year courses further explore diversity and fundamental biological and ecological processes, leading to third and fourth year courses with greater specialization. Our programs have a reputation for high quality training of students who go on to earn higher degrees at prestigious universities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-row \" data-column-group=\"1\">\n<div class=\"new-column-box  half count-1\">\n<h2>Admission Requirements<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Biology 40S, Chemistry 40S, Pre-Calculus 40S, Physics 30S (Physics 40S preferred)<\/li>\n<li><em>Chemistry courses are prerequisites for entrance into professional schools such as medicine, dentistry, pharmacy<\/em><em> and veterinary medicine. Speak with an Advisor is you wish to pursue any of these areas.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><!-- .new-column-box -->\n<div class=\"new-column-box  half count-2\">\n<h2>Approximate Costs per year<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Tuition: $5027<\/li>\n<li>Text Books: $918<\/li>\n<li>Other (Lab Supplies): $100<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>International Undergraduate Student Rate (including fees):\u00a0 $15,998<\/p>\n<\/div><!-- .new-column-box -->\n<\/div><!-- .flex-row -->\n<div class=\"flex-row \" data-column-group=\"2\">\n<div class=\"new-column-box  full count-1\">\n<h2>Possible Careers<\/h2>\n<div class=\"flex-row\">\n<div class=\"new-column-box ebm inside inside-half count-1 inside-half\">\n<ul>\n<li>Agriculture<\/li>\n<li>Clinical\/Medical Scientist<\/li>\n<li>Clinical Medicine<\/li>\n<li>Conservation Biologist<\/li>\n<li>Dentistry<\/li>\n<li>Forestry<\/li>\n<li>Health Sciences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><!-- .new-column-box .inside inside-half .ebm -->\n<div class=\"new-column-box ebm inside inside-half count-2 inside-half\">\n<ul>\n<li>Horticulture<\/li>\n<li>Optometry<\/li>\n<li>Park Services<\/li>\n<li>Research Biologist<\/li>\n<li>Teaching<\/li>\n<li>Veterinary Medicine<\/li>\n<li>Wildlife Biologist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><!-- .new-column-box .inside inside-half .ebm -->\n<\/div> <!-- .flex-row -->\n<\/div><!-- .new-column-box -->\n<\/div><!-- .flex-row -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biology at Brandon University is about much more than the scientific study of animals, plants and microbes. First year introduces the diversity of life on the planet and explains how genes and cells function. Second year courses further explore diversity and fundamental biological and ecological processes, leading to third and fourth year courses with greater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}