Students
matriculating prior to the fall semester 2015 in the School of
Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) must complete the SEBS general education requirements. In addition, students majoring in entomology must complete the major requirements described below.
Students
matriculating fall 2015 or after and transfer students matriculating in
2016 and after must complete a goal-based Core Curriculum in place of
general education requirements. The goal-based core is described here: http://sebs.rutgers.edu/core. Courses are certified for the Core Curriculum by a faculty committee. A current list of certified courses can be found here: http://sebs.rutgers.edu/core. Entomology major requirements are as described below.
For
an up-to-date description of entomology major
requirements, courses, and course sequences please refer to the program
webpage at http://entomology.rutgers.edu/undergraduate.
Competence in Entomology
(62 credits)
Required
Courses (7-8 credits)
01:640:135,
136 CALC1 (4,4) or equivalent, and
01:640:136
CALC II (4) or
01:960:211
Statistics (3)
Required
Major Requirements (14 credits
11:370:350
Agricultural Entomology and Pest Management (3)
11:370:381 Insect Biology (4)
11:370:409 Insect Classification (4)
Courses
determined in consultation with adviser (37 credits)
At least three from (6-8 credits)
11:370:308 Apiculture
(3)
11:370:352 Toxicology
of Pesticides (3)
11:370:401 Case
Studies in Vector Borne Disease (3)
11:370:402 Aquatic
Entomology (4)
11:370:403 Insect
Structure and Function (4)
11:370:404 Insect
Structure and Function (4)
11:370:406 Medical and Veterinary Entomology (3)
11:370:430 Urban
Entomology (3)
11:370:414 Forensic
Entomology (3)
11:370:415 Decomposition
Ecology (3)
At least two from (7-8 credits)
01:160:209 Elementary
Organic Chemistry (4)
01:447:380 Genetics (4)
01:694:301 Introductory
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (3)
11:115:301
Introductory Biochemistry (3) or
11:115:403 Biochemistry
(4)
11:115:404 Biochemistry
(4)
11:776:305 Plant
Genetics (4)
At least two from (4-6 credits)
11:372:232 Fundamentals
of Environmental Geomatics (3)
11:372:233 Fundamentals
of Environmental Geomatics Lab (1)
11:372:374 Plant
Biosecurity Issues and Technologies 11:776:405 (3)
11:776:407 Fundamentals
of Risk Analysis (1)
At least two from (6-8 credits)
11:704:351 Principles
of Ecology (4)
11:770:301 General
Plant Pathology (3)
11:776:402 Principles
of Weed Science (3)
11:776:408 Turfgrass
Pest Science (4)
Unspecified Electives
In
addition to courses meeting the above requirements, students can take
any other courses offered by the university, for which they meet the
course eligibility requirements, to bring their total number of credits
to the minimum of 128 required for graduation.
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences 
