BIOG 1440

BIOG 1440

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

An introductory physiology course intended for first-year and sophomore biological sciences majors and other students majoring in life sciences. The course integrates physiology from the cell to the organism with comparisons among animals, plants and microbes. Emphasis is on understanding of basic physiological concepts, stressing structure-function relationships and underlying physio-chemical mechanisms.


Forbidden Overlaps BIOG 1440, BIOG 1445

Distribution Requirements (BIO-AG, BSC-AG, OPHLS-AG), (BIO-AS)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025FA, 2025SU, 2025SP, 2024FA

Outcomes

  • Students will be able to understand the principles of how organisms work at the molecular, cellular, and systems levels, how these principles are based on the rules of physics and chemistry, and how the processes of physiology at one level emerge from processes at the lower levels.
  • Students will be able to think like a physiologist. This involves understanding how the properties of cells determine function at all higher levels of biological organization including how cellular membranes create selective barriers and how substances cross these barriers, how biological processes are regulated, and how cells and organisms exchange energy and matter with the environment, respond to their environment (including stimulus transduction, intercellular communication, and information processing), and generate mechanical forces and movement.
  • Students will be able to appreciate the similarities and differences between the physiologies of humans and other organisms, and so to appreciate how the study of comparative physiology is relevant to understanding your own life, and to understanding how evolution explains both the unity and diversity of life.

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1245 BIOG 1440   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harman, R

      Harris-Warrick, R

      Pesciotta, L

      Soloway, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Biological Sciences majors must take this course for a letter grade. If enrollment in lecture and sections for BioG 1440 is closed/full, you can attend the first lecture and the discussion section of your choice during the first week of classes. There you will have the opportunity to fill out a form requesting to add or change section in the course. Students will be notified if space becomes available. This course will require a permission code to add and switch sections on the first day of class. Do not try to switch your section without a permission code.

  •  1246 BIOG 1440   DIS 201

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harman, R

      Harris-Warrick, R

      Pesciotta, L

      Soloway, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1247 BIOG 1440   DIS 202

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harman, R

      Harris-Warrick, R

      Pesciotta, L

      Soloway, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1248 BIOG 1440   DIS 203

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harman, R

      Harris-Warrick, R

      Pesciotta, L

      Soloway, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1249 BIOG 1440   DIS 204

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harman, R

      Harris-Warrick, R

      Pesciotta, L

      Soloway, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1250 BIOG 1440   DIS 205

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harman, R

      Harris-Warrick, R

      Pesciotta, L

      Soloway, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1251 BIOG 1440   DIS 206

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harman, R

      Harris-Warrick, R

      Pesciotta, L

      Soloway, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1252 BIOG 1440   DIS 207

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harman, R

      Harris-Warrick, R

      Pesciotta, L

      Soloway, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1253 BIOG 1440   DIS 208

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harman, R

      Harris-Warrick, R

      Pesciotta, L

      Soloway, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1410 BIOG 1440   DIS 209

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harman, R

      Harris-Warrick, R

      Pesciotta, L

      Soloway, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1254 BIOG 1440   DIS 210

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harman, R

      Harris-Warrick, R

      Pesciotta, L

      Soloway, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1411 BIOG 1440   DIS 211

    • R
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harman, R

      Harris-Warrick, R

      Pesciotta, L

      Soloway, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1255 BIOG 1440   DIS 212

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harman, R

      Harris-Warrick, R

      Pesciotta, L

      Soloway, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1256 BIOG 1440   DIS 213

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harman, R

      Harris-Warrick, R

      Pesciotta, L

      Soloway, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1257 BIOG 1440   DIS 214

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harman, R

      Harris-Warrick, R

      Pesciotta, L

      Soloway, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1284 BIOG 1440   DIS 215

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harman, R

      Harris-Warrick, R

      Pesciotta, L

      Soloway, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1291 BIOG 1440   DIS 216

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harman, R

      Harris-Warrick, R

      Pesciotta, L

      Soloway, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1292 BIOG 1440   DIS 217

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harman, R

      Harris-Warrick, R

      Pesciotta, L

      Soloway, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1293 BIOG 1440   DIS 218

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Harman, R

      Harris-Warrick, R

      Pesciotta, L

      Soloway, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person