The areas of concentration serve as advising tools, guiding students to more narrowly focus their course selection around classes most relevant to a specific sub-discipline of the Biological Sciences.
Approximately 25% of Biology Majors will elect to complete the requirements for one of 12 optional areas of concentration. Completion of concentration requirements will be noted on your transcript.
Students can declare a concentration during the initial major declaration process. If you need to add or change a concentration after declaring the BIO major, and are not in your last semester, you can make that change via the Academic Plan change self service process in DukeHub. In your final semester, reach out to Trinity Graduation Staff. Contact the appropriate area advisor with questions regarding concentration requirements. Note that some concentration requirements (specifically some Ind Studies) will need to be manually entered in Stellic. Reach out to Jill Foster with any Bio major/concentration questions pertaining to Stellic.