College of Arts & Sciences

Physiology is the field of biology that deals with function in living organisms. The academic foundation of the department is the knowledge of how humans and animals function at the level of genes, cells, organs, and systems. Our multidisciplinary curriculum requires students to take foundational courses in anatomy, biochemistry, mathematics, physics, physiology, and statistics.

Admission to the distributed studies track requires completion of 60 credits or more and permission from the dean’s office. The distributed studies track is intended for students who have accumulated a significant number of credit hours toward the completion of one or more majors and are not eligible to continue in those majors. 

An individually structured track also is available in the distributed studies program. Students pursuing the individually structured track must write and defend a thesis based on original scholarly or creative work.

The Comparative Literature Graduate Program enables students to study the production, reception, and interpretation of written texts and related media from a comprehensive perspective involving at least two national literatures. Comparative literature has long crossed national linguistic frontiers. The discipline today questions the very basis of such boundaries, exploring the construction of national literatures, languages, and traditions and, insofar as this can be read in and out of verbal and other media, of nations and national consciousness itself.