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Registration Instructions

All Declared Biology major students are urged to register for the BIOL courses they require as soon as their registration appointment date and time arrives. For the first 3-4 weeks of the registration period, declared Biology majors are given priority registration for ALL BIOL courses at the 200-level or above that apply to the Biology major requirements. The BIOL major priority expiration date will be indicated in the CLASS NOTES section on CUNY First.  Declared Biology majors are urged to register for the BIOL courses that they require prior to this expiration date. After this date, the remaining open seats in BIOL courses will be made available to all students who meet all the course prerequisites. 

Prerequisite Permission for Principles of Biology, Anatomy & Physiology, and Microbiology

Non-degree students who have taken their prerequisites outside of Hunter will need to contact the course administrator and show the prerequisite work that they have done. The prerequisites are as follows:

  • BIOL 10000 (Principles of Biology I): Requires MATH 12550 (Pre-calculus) AND CHEM 10200 (General Chemistry I). Calculus can be taken in place of pre-calculus.
  • BIOL 10200 (Principles of Biology II): Requires BIOL 10000 (Principles of Biology I). Students who took Principles I outside of Hunter will also need to show that they've taken General Chemistry.
  • BIOL 12000 (Anatomy & Physiology I): Requires CHEM 10000 (General Chemistry Lecture) AND CHEM 10100 (General Chemistry Lab). Other General Chemistry courses (10200, 10400, 10600) can be taken in place, but both lecture and lab are required.
  • BIOL 12200 (Anatomy & Physiology II): Requires BIOL 12000 (Anatomy & Physiology I). Students who took A&P I outside of Hunter will also need to show that they've taken General Chemistry lecture & lab.
  • BIOL 23000 (Microbiology): Requires either BIOL 12000 (Anatomy & Physiology I) or both BIOL 10000 AND BIOL 10200 (Principles of Biology I & II), as well as General Chemistry (CHEM 10000 & 10100 or equivalent).

Prerequisite issues are handled by the lecture instructor for each course. Please send an email including an unofficial pdf transcript showing the relevant courses (highlighted if possible).  Faculty emails are listed under "Faculty Staff & Students" above.

Registering for BIOL 10000/10200

BIOL 10000/10200 at Hunter consists of three different components: Lecture, Lab and Recitation.  In a change from previous semesters, students may now register for any combination of lab and lecture, although recitation sections must still be chosen from the group associated with the chosen lecture (indicated by 1R or 2R).  The lecture is the enrollment component, so you would start by choosing from the two options.  You may then choose any recitation associated with the lecture you picked, and then finally you may enroll in any of the lab sections for the course regardless of whether they start with 1L or 2L.  All students must take all three components, and you will be required to attend the lecture, lab and recitation that you have registered for (you may not change partway through the semester).

BIOL 301 Permission

Non-Biology majors requesting permission to take BIOL 301 may do so with the form below.  Students must have completed BIOL 100, BIOL 102 (general biology) before taking BIOL 301 and must have taken or be registered to take CHEM 222 (organic chemistry 1) at the same time. Students taking CHEM 222 as a corequisite must register for the course before requesting BIOL 301 permission or request a prerequisite waiver from the course instructor.  Non-degree students who have taken these prerequisite courses outside of Hunter must send an unoffiical transcript showing proof of the prerequisites to biology@hunter.cuny.edu when requesting permission. Any permissions for which we do not have proof of prerequisites, either via email or on a student's Hunter transcript, will not be processed. Students do *not* need to send their Hunter transcripts via email, we can access those directly; only non-Hunter transcripts need to be sent.

Registration requests for BIOL 301 will begin at 10:30 AM on Tuesday, November 9th. On or after that date, students can request permission by filling out the BIOL 301 Registration Permission Form. These requests are separate from any requests for BIOL major courses, and will be processed separately. All valid forms will be processed, and seats given, in the order that they are submitted.