Biochemistry Major

Required Units

Total number of units required for major, excluding any required intensive(s): 10

Required Intensive units, if any: .5

Total units required: 10.5

Total Number of Specific Courses Required

• BIOL 107 - Energy Flow in Biological Systems
• BIOL 108 - Information Flow in Biological Systems
• CHEM 125 - Chemical Principles
• CHEM 244 - Organic Chemistry: Structure and Properties
• CHEM 245 - Organic Chemistry: Reactions and Mechanisms
• BIOC 272 - Biochemistry
• BIOC 326 - Biophysical Chemistry or CHEM 350 - Thermodynamics and Chemical Kinetics     
• BIOC 356 - Biochemistry Senior Seminar

Distributional Content Area Units Required

• One Genetics course:

• BIOL 238 - Molecular Genetics
• BIOL 244 - Genetics and Genomics
• BIOL 248 - Evolutionary Genetics

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• One Cell or Molecular Biology course:

• BIOL 202 - Plant Physiology and Development
• BIOL 205 - Microbiology
• BIOL 218 - Cellular Structure and Function
• BIOL 232 - Developmental Biology
• BIOL 324 - The Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics of Translation
• BIOL 330 - Cancer Biology
• BIOL 370 - Immunology
• BIOL 377 - Molecular Virology
• BIOL 386 - Stem Cell Biology
• BIOL 383 - Special Topics in Ecology and Evolution

• Other courses may be approved by the adviser and Director.

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• All Biochemistry majors must complete at least eight units of coursework outside the natural sciences division.

Intensives

Students must elect at least 0.5 unit of Intensive credit (graded or ungraded) in their junior or senior year from a list of Biochemistry related Intensives offered within the natural sciences, chosen in consultation with their adviser. BIOC 295 , BIOC 298 , BIOC 399 , BIOL 293 , BIOL 298 , BIOL 399 , CHEM 291 , CHEM 298 , CHEM 372 , CHEM 373 , or CHEM 399  may count towards this requirement.