As a biology major at Grace College, you’ll explore living organisms and their biological processes, preparing for excellent work in everything from medical research to marine biology.
We study biology with the foundation that God lies at the center of everything we hope to understand. As you peer at molecular life, you’ll learn to appreciate the fingerprint of an omniscient God whose “understanding is beyond measure.” (Ps. 147:5)
You’ll begin with core biology classes and labs, in which you’ll learn the basics of biological structures and processes. Faculty will be present at your labs, ready to aid and answer all your questions, whether you’re completing a dissection or performing polymerase chain reactions.
Then, you’ll dive into your specialized courses. With a neurobiology concentration, you’ll benefit from Grace’s neurobiology partnership with other colleges through Rize Education. You’ll focus on the cellular and molecular levels of biology, taking advantage of neuroscience tools such as the Allen Brain Atlas and Connectome Explorer.
As you dive into God’s Creation through observation, dissection, and physiological measurement, expect even your lectures to be full of case studies and critical thinking activities.
At Grace, we know that a textbook can only take you so far. That’s why we require every student to complete an internship experience. As a neurobiology major, you’ll have a unique internship opportunity in the microbial ecology laboratory at the Lilly Center for Lakes & Streams, a nonprofit research center and division of Grace College. Students of this program have also completed internships at wildlife sanctuaries as well as university, industrial, and medical laboratories.
Once you graduate with a bachelor’s in neurobiology, you’ll be equipped to further biology research in any setting, fulfilling our responsibility to explore and steward Creation well. You might work as a laboratory technician or animal biologist, or you may work in a postgraduate career, such as becoming a medical technician or scientific researcher.
