Student Resources

Undergraduate Advising

Your academic advisor will guide you through your program of study, helping you to identify the courses required for you to meet your degree goals.

Advising Coordinator - Amy Wald is the Advising Coordinator for CNSM, including the Biology and Wildlife Department. You can find her in 101A Murie Bldg. Amy typically advises all students interested in biology and wildlife including all pre-professional students. She assists students with transferring credits, petitioning for course credit, math and English placement exams, as well as short- and long-term degree planning. Please use  to scheduling a meeting or use this  link to make a video or phone appointment. You can also send her an email at alwald@alaska.edu.
 
 
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Advising Alerts

  • Biological Sciences BS majors should declare a concentration by the end of their second semester. To declare or change a concentration, students simply send an email to the Registrar (uaf-registrar@alaska.edu) on their official alaska.edu account, including their UA ID#.  Until that is completed, use the "What-If" function of DegreeWorks to figure out course requirements under a particular concentration.
  • Be aware that students can double count courses for capstone and biology elective credit. E.g. BIOL F440 Behavioral Neuroscience Research Capstone contains a capstone project and also provides List B (physiology) or List E (biomedical) elective credit (the student can choose).
  • Courses that were not formally listed in the catalog during a student's catalog year will not automatically count as viable elective courses (e.g. List A, List C) within DegreeWorks. This includes courses that were established subsequent to the student's catalog year, special topics courses (BIOL/WLF X93), and trial courses (BIOL/WLF X94). The advisor and student must petition to have these courses count toward the degree requirements. 
  • If you wish to set up an individual study course, see Resources pull down menu on the home page for tips.
  • The Biological Sciences B.A. program has changed! Starting with the 2022-23 catalog year, there is a new capstone course required that is more integrative and interdisciplinary (BIOL 410 Integrative Capstone in Biological Sciences) than the previous research capstone project.
  • The capstone course for the Biological Sciences B.S. program is still BIOL 400 plus a research project, but the name of BIOL 400 has changed to distinguish it from the BA capstone; it's now called Research Capstone in Biological Sciences.
  • Starting in fall 2023, both the asynchronous online and the in person versions of BIOL 371 Principles of Ecology will be offered in the fall only. This change was necessary to help balance the online course offerings across semesters.