The following courses are approved to fulfill the supporting course requirement of the Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences curriculum. They meet criteria as rigorous, scientific, animal biology oriented 400 level courses. Independent study (496) credits may NOT be used to fulfill this requirement.
| Course | Title | Credits | Semester Offered |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANSC 413 | Transgenic Biology | 3 | Spring |
| ANSC 415 | Companion Animal Behavior | 3 | Spring |
| ANSC 419W | Applied Animal Welfare | 3 | Fall |
| ANSC 420 | Animal Nutrition and Feed Technology | 4 | Spring |
| ANSC 427 | Milk Secretion | 3 | Spring |
| ANSC 431 | Physiology of Reproduction in Farm Animals | 4 | Fall |
| ANSC 456 | Animal Microbiomes | 3 | Fall |
| ANSC 467W | Equine Nutrition and Feeding | 3 | Spring |
| ANSC 480 | Animal Growth and Development | 3 | Spring |
| BIOL 404 | Cellular Mechanisms in Vertebrate Physiology | 3 | Fall |
| BIOL 411 | Medical Embryology | 3 | Spring |
| BIOL 412 | Ecology of Infectious Diseases | 3 | Fall |
| BIOL 415 | Ecotoxicology | 3 | Fall |
| BIOL 416 | Biology of Cancer | 3 | Spring |
| BIOL 418 | Biology of Human Infectious Diseases | 3 | Fall |
| BIOL 426 | Developmental Neurobiology | 3 | Spring |
| BIOL 429 | Animal Behavior | 3 | Spring |
| BIOL 430 | Developmental Biology | 3 | Spring |
| BIOL 431 | Reproductive Biology | 3 | Spring |
| BIOL 434 | Pathobiology of Emerging Infectious Disease | 3 | Fall |
| BIOL 437 | Histology | 4 | Spring |
| BIOL 442 | Evolutionary Medicine | 3 | Spring |
| BIOL 451 | Biology of RNA | 3 | Spring |
| BIOL 467 | Molecular Basis of Neurological Diseases | 3 | Spring |
| BIOL 469 | Neurobiology | 3 | Spring |
| BIOL 478 | Comparative Neuroanatomy | 3 | Spring |
| BIOL 479 | General Endocrinology | 3 | Spring |
| BMB 406 | Molecular Biology | 3 | Spring |
| BMB 430 | Developmental Biology | 3 | Spring |
| BMB 464 | Molecular Medicine | 3 | Spring |
| ENT 450 | Medical Entomology | 3 | Spring |
| MICRB 410 | Principles of Immunology | 3 | Fall/Spring |
| MICRB 412 | Medical Microbiology | 3 | Spring |
| MICRB 415 | General Virology: Bacterial and Animal Viruses | 3 | Spring |
| MICRB 416 | Microbial Biotechnology | 3 | Fall |
| MICRB 432 | Advanced Immunology: Signaling in the Immune System | 3 | Spring |
| MICRB 435 | Viral Pathogenesis | 3 | Fall |
| MICRB 450 | Microbial/Molecular Genetics | 3 | Spring |
| MICRB 460 | Cell Growth and Differentiation | 3 | Spring |
| MICRB 480 | Cancer Development and Progression | 3 | Fall |
| VBSC 402W | Biology of Parasites | 3 | Spring |
| VBSC 405 | Laboratory Animal Science | 3 | Spring |
| VBSC 407 | Ruminant Herd Health Management | 3 | Spring |
| VBSC 409 | Wildlife Diseases | 3 | Spring |
| VBSC 410 | Principles of Immunology | 3 | Fall/Spring |
| VBSC 418 | Bacterial Pathogenesis | 2 | Spring |
| VBSC 420 | General Animal Pathology | 3 | Fall |
| VBSC 423W | Pathology of Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases | 3 | Fall |
| VBSC 425 | Principles of Avian Diseases | 3 | Fall |
| VBSC 430 | Principles of Toxicology | 3 | Fall |
| VBSC 431 | Environmental Toxicology | 3 | Fall |
| VBSC 432 | Advanced Immunology: Signaling in the Immune System | 3 | Spring |
| VBSC 433 | Molecular and Cellular Toxicology | 3 | Spring |
| VBSC 435 | Viral Pathogenesis | 3 | Fall |
| VBSC 438 | Intro to Molecular Pharmacology | 3 | Spring |
| VBSC 439 | Mucosal Immunology and the microbiome | 3 | Spring |
| VBSC 444 | Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases | 3 | Spring |
| VBSC 445 | Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases | 3 | Fall/Spring |
| VBSC 451 | Immunotoxicology of Drugs and Chemicals | 3 | Fall |
| VBSC 485 | Human Genomics and Biomedical Informatics | 3 | Spring |
| VBSC 520 | Pathobiology (Special Permission Required) | 3 | Fall |
| WFS 407 | Ornithology | 3 | Spring |
| WFS 408 | Mammology | 3 | Spring |
| WFS 410 | General Fishery Science | 3 | Fall |
| WFS 422 | Ecology of Fishes | 3 | Fall |
| WFS 430 | Conservation Biology | 3 | Fall |
| WFS 446 | Wildlife and Fisheries Population Dynamics | 3 | Spring |
| WFS 452 and WFS 453 | Ichthyology and Ichthyology Laboratory | 4 | Fall |
*Students should check with their academic advisers about course availability.
*This is not an exhaustive list of all possible courses offered by Penn State. If you find an unlisted 400-level course you would like to take, share that course description with your academic advisor prior to taking the course. If approved by the VBSC Program Coordinator, a petition process will allow the course to count for 400-level supporting course credit. Note: Classes already taken without approval cannot be considered.
Courses with 497 numbers and 500 level courses MAY be eligible for substitution for the above list. Consult your adviser concerning substitution PRIOR to registration in the course.
Please note that the offering of these courses may vary from year to year and semester to semester depending upon availability of faculty.
