KWC Department of Biology

The Kentucky Wesleyan College Department of Biology offers a broad selection of courses for students with varied interests and career objectives. Students interested in health fields (medicine, dentistry, medical technology, physical therapy, veterinary medicine), research, conservation/forestry, teaching, or a specific area of botany or zoology can select from this variety of courses and, in conjunction with their faculty advisers, design personalized programs. Recent biology graduates have become physicians, dentists, microbiologists, ecologists, veterinarians, optometrists, teachers, and environmental scientists.

B.S. or B.A. in biology. The B.A. degree requires intermediate level foreign language competency. Both degrees include comparable course work in biology (35 semester hours) with some differences in supporting course work in chemistry, mathematics and physics. Variations in biology course work are related to students' interests and career intentions. For example, those interested in environmental science opportunities will include several environmental science courses toward the biology major, those interested in pre-medicine will include courses such as Histology and Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy in their curriculum, and those interested in graduate studies in, for example, Tropical Marine biology, will include courses such as Ecology, Field Botany of Local Flora or Entomology and Tropical Marine Biology in their course work.  For additional details, consult pages 17-21 of the 2004-2006 Kentucky Wesleyan College Academic Bulletin:

 http://www.kwc.edu/academic_detail.asp?page=Academic%20Bulletin

• Faculty
  • Donald L. Davenport, M.S., Emeritus
  • Evelyn N. Hiatt, Ph.D.
  • David F. Oetinger, Ph.D.

• Equipment and Laboratories

The Department of Biology has an equipment inventory comparable to that of many larger schools: electronic balances, pH meters, spectrophotometers, a projection physiograph, an environmental chamber, a laminar flow hood, Solomat Field Water Monitoring Systems, a chromatography refrigerator, a Back-pack Electroshocker, a CO2 incubator, electrophoresis equipment, microtomes--including a Leica EM KMR2 Knifemaker and a Leica UltraCut Ultramicrotome, personal computer systems, compound and stereoscopic microscopes, a fluorescence microscope, an inverted phase contrast microscope, and an Hitachi H-7000 Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope.

Laboratory work includes frequent field trips to local resources (ponds, lakes, forests, wastewater treatment plants, hospital laboratories, etc.) and more distant resources such as the Land Between the Lakes, the Chattanooga Aquarium, and the St. Louis Zoological Gardens.

• Course Offerings

Send comments and questions to: acantho@kwc.edu
Last modified:  08 Nov 05  David F. Oetinger