Life Sciences

Welcome to the Life Science Division of Paradise Valley Community College. The Life Science Division houses all of the Biology (BIO) classes.  Here you will find resources to help plan your academic path in any BIO related field.  Many BIO courses serve as prerequisites for medical related fields of study.

Courses are offered in a variety of formats including traditional in-class meetings, hybrid, and online.

Our Life Science Building  (LS) provides state of the art classrooms, laboratories and learning technologies.

We offer courses that serve both Biology majors and non-majors students:

Non-majors / General BIO courses (these course meet the AGEC requirements for Science)

BIO100  Biology Concepts

BIO105  Environmental Biology

BIO108  Plants and Society

BIO109  Natural History of the Southwest

BIO145  Marine Biology

BIO160  Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology

Majors courses (these course meet the AGEC requirements for Science and serve as prerequisites for BIO majors and medical related fields of study)

BIO156  Introductory Biology for Allied Health

BIO181  General Biology (Majors) I

BIO182  General Biology (Majors) II

BIO201  Human Anatomy and Physiology I

BIO202  Human Anatomy and Physiology II

BIO205  Microbiology