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Biomedical Sciences Major with a Microbiology Emphasis

Program Advisors: D. Burg, Hecht, and Nieuwkoop

Graduates from this emphasis will be prepared to enter a graduate program in microbiology or biotechnology. The laboratory-rich aspect of this emphasis will prepare a graduate for becoming a microbiology/biotechnology laboratory technician. In addition it would be an excellent emphasis for a premedical student interested in infectious disease. Since it is impossible to design one curriculum to fulfill the requirements of every graduate program or laboratory, it is the student’s responsibility, in consultation with an advisor, to see that the requirements are fulfilled for the particular school(s)/jobs in which the student is interested. This major, although directed, allows sufficient flexibility to accommodate the specific requirements which various programs may have.

Major Requirements:
1.     General university degree requirements as identified in the General Academic   Regulations 
         section of the catalog.

2.     Required Health Science Courses
        BMS 208 Human Anatomy
        BMS 212, 213 Introductory Microbiology
        BMS 290, 291 Human Physiology*
        BMS 312/313 Bacterial Genetics
        BMS322/323 Bacterial Physiology
        BMS499 Research in Health Sciences**

3.     Required cognate courses:
        BIO 120 General Biology I*
        BIO 355 or BIO375/376 Genetics
        CHM 115 Principles of Chemistry I
        CHM 116 Principles of Chemistry II
        CHM 241 Organic Chemistry I
        CHM 242 Organic Chemistry II
        CHM 232 Biological Chemistry or CHM 461 Biochemistry
        MTH 122 College Algebra
        MTH 123 Trigonometry
        STA 215 Introductory Applied Statistics*
        PHY 220 General Physics I
        PHY 221 General Physics II

Six additional hours of upper –division science courses from the following:
        BMS410/411; BMS412/413; BMS431, BIO414, and CHM462.

*B.S. cognate course sequence:
        STA215; BIO112; BMS280-281.

** Capstone course.