Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Major

Requirements for the Major

Required Courses

BIO 210	Introduction to Genetics	4
BMB 210	Introduction to Biochemistry and Cell Biology	4
CHE 135	Accelerated General Chemistry	4
	Or Both
CHE 131	General Chemistry-I	4
	AND
CHE 132	General Chemistry-II	4
CHE 241	Organic Chemistry-I	4
CHE 242	Organic Chemistry-II	4
MAT 165	Modern Calculus-I	3
	OR
	placement in MAT 185 or higher
PHY 110	Introduction to Physics	4
	OR
PHY 210	General Physics-I	4
BMB 310	Macromolecules	3
BMB 320	Cellular Metabolism	3
BMB 330	Molecular Genetics	3
BMB 340	Cell Biology	3
BMB 500	Senior Seminar	3
BMB 316	Biochemistry Lab Techniques	3

and at least one of

BMB 335	Laboratory in Molecular Genetics	1
BMB 345	Laboratory in Cell Biology	1

One of the following physical or computational science courses:

PHY 120	Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences	4
PHY 230	General Physics-II	4
CHE 250	Introduction to Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry	4
CHE 361	Thermodynamics and Kinetics	4
CHE 362	Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy	4
CSC 160	Web, Data, and Design	4
CSC 220	Programming and Problem Solving	4

One of the following biological science courses:

BIO 335	Developmental Biology	4
BIO 340	Microbiology	4
BIO 345	Histology	4
BIO 350	Comparative Vertebrate Physiology	4
BIO 355	Immunology	3
BIO 385	Cellular Neurobiology	3
BIO 386	Cancer BIology	3
BIO 392	Bioinformatics and Genomics	4
BIO 455	The Biology of Viruses	3