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Jan 13, 2025
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2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Biological Sciences Major, BS – Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology Concentration
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The biological sciences major offers concentrations in biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology; ecology and evolutionary biology; and microbiology.
Continuing, returning, and transfer students must meet progression requirements before declaring a major in biological sciences.
To declare biological sciences as a major, students must have an overall GPA of 2.0, be in good academic standing and have completed CHEM 120 *-CHEM 130 * and BIOL 150 * or BIOL 158 * with a minimum grade of C.
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Prerequisites
A minimum grade of C must be earned in all prerequisites. BCMB Concentration
The concentration consists of 32 hours. III. Select (13 total hours):
A. Select one laboratory course:
B. Select one physiology course:
C. Select remaining hours:
Note:
At least 7 out of the 13 credit hours must be BCMB courses. Honors Option
- An honors option is offered to students who have completed BIOL 150 * (or BIOL 158 *), BIOL 159 * (or BIOL 167 *), BIOL 160 * (or BIOL 168 *), and BIOL 240 with a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or above and an overall GPA of at least 3.25 at the time of electing to take the honors option.
- Complete 12 hours of upper-division (300-level or above) honors BCMB courses with a grade of B or higher in each course. These honors courses should include BCMB 457 and BCMB courses (except for BCMB 452 ) taken as honors-by-contract courses (BCMB 457 is automatically an honors course and cannot be taken as honors-by-contract.)
- Participate in independent research (BCMB 452 ) with a minimum of 3 credit hours of BCMB 452 and 1 credit hour of BCMB 457 spread out over at least two semesters.
- Note: No more than 6 total credit hours combined from BCMB 452 and BCMB 457 may be applied toward the BCMB concentration.
- An overall GPA of 3.25 is required at graduation.
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