BIOLOGY 1A & 1AL
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
Enrollment in Biology 1A and 1AL is severely impacted. Even though the demand for the classes is very high, because of limited lab space, expansion of enrollment is not possible. No additional seats will be opened. As a result, enrollment in the courses is being strictly managed. Students must meet all requirements to remain enrolled (see below).
Read below for Current Enrollment Status information
To be enrolled in Biology 1A and/or 1AL, students must have completed Chemistry 3A (or 112A) with a C- or better grade. It is also recommended to have taken Chem 3B (or 112B).
Equivalent courses from other schools or a sufficient score on the ACS Organic Chemistry exam to pass out of the required courses are acceptable, but documentation of grades in those courses must be provided.
Students who do not fulfill the prerequisites should not enroll. Students who have not completed the minimum chemistry prerequisites by the beginning of the semester will be dropped from enrollment.
Students must have already received a passing grade in the prerequisite classes prior to the beginning of the semester. Students currently enrolled in Chemistry 3A (or 112A) at the time of enrollment will have their grade confirmed after their current class ends.
It is not sufficient to be enrolled in Chem 3A (or 112A) in the same semester along with Biology 1A/1AL.
AP Biology Exam credit does not provide an exemption from the prerequisites.
Most students are required to be enrolled in both Bio 1A and Bio 1AL simultaneously. The only students who are permitted to enroll in only one or the other class alone are those students who have declared majors that do not require 1AL, those students who are repeating one or both of the classes, or those students who have completed coursework at other schools corresponding to 1A or 1AL.
Students required to be simultaneously enrolled in 1A and 1AL must be enrolled in both classes before the beginning of instruction or they will be dropped from enrollment in the one class they are enrolled. Students not able to enroll in both classes can only add to the wait lists for both classes for an chance to be enrolled. In this case, being enrolled in 1AL is the determining factor, and therefore, the 1AL waiting list position is what really matters.
Students who have enrolled in 1AL are garaunteed a seat in 1A provided that they are able to enroll in one of the discussion sections that are open.
Majors that do not require 1AL are:
Chemical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Psychology
While students in theses majors are not required to be enrolled in 1AL simultaneously with 1A, if they are planning to take 1AL, they should take the classes smultaneously. Students in this category who attempt to enroll in 1AL at a later time will have lowest priority for enrollment since they do not require the class for graduation and were exempted from simultaneous enrollment earlier.
Any 1AL lab section may be chosen in combination with any 1A discussion section except where the Tuesday lab sections conflict with the Tuesday discussion sections. Make sure you do not enroll in conflicting sections.
Exams scheduled in the evening for other classes typically conflict with the 6:30-9:30pm lab sections. Students enrolling in the evening lab sections are responsible for avoiding conflicts with scheduled exams in other classes (typically noted in the Schedule of Classes listing). Students whose enrollment selections result in these types of conflicts will not be approved to reschedule lab sections during the weeks of the scheduled exams.
Priority for enrollment is primarily on a first-come first-served basis. No speical priority is given based upon major or class level (except as given by TeleBears appointment time). Higher level students should not have problems enrolling as long as they try to enroll at their first possible time. Students repeating enrollment are given lower priority than students enrolling for the first time (see below).
Students are classified as "repeating enrollment" if 1) they have a previous grade in either Bio 1A or 1AL or 2) they were enrolled in Bio 1A/1AL after the end of the first week of classes in Summer Session and dropped one or both classes without special approval of the drop.
Students classified as repeating enrollment are given low priority unless they are on the Degree List to graduate at the end of the enrolling semester. Repeating enrollment students who are on the Degree List may proceed to enroll in the classes. Other repeating enrollment students cannot enroll in the classes, and must wait until January 15th. Even then, repeating enrollment students may only add to the waiting lists for the classes, and they must wait to see if it is possible to be enrolled after all non-repeating enrollment students have been considered. Repeating enrollment students not on the Degree List who enroll or add to the class waiting lists prior to August 26th will be dropped.
The Schedule of Classes listing currently has no CCN listed for the lecture sections. The CCNs to enroll in the courses will not be shown.
At the end of Phase I enrollment (11/10/2009), Biology 1AL enrollment was full. The only way to be enrolled in 1AL now is to be added from the waiting list.
With the start of Phase II enrollment (11/12/2009), Biology 1A is now open.
To find out if you are qualified to be enrolled, how the enrollment process will work, and to acquire the Course Control Numbers for enrollment, you must navigate through the following series of questions.
Have you ever been enrolled in Biology 1A and/or 1AL here at UCB and received a grade (or dropped after the first week in Summer)?
Questions about Enrollment:
For any questions about enrollment that are not answered in the information above or in related/linked sources, please send email to Erol Kepkep, the Biology 1A/1AL Enrollment Coordinator, at bio1a-enrollment@berkeley.edu.