Curriculum Requirements for the Bioinformatics Option

Total credits required: 130-132 credits

College Success Seminar * (2 credits)

Life sciences
BIOL 110 General Biology I (4 credits)
BIOL 150 General Biology II (4 credits)
BIOL 340 Biochemistry (4 credits)
CHEM 110 General Chemistry I (4 credits)
CHEM150 General Chemistry II (4 credits)
CHEM 210 Organic Chemistry I (4 credits)
CHEM250 Organic Chemistry II (4 credits)
28 credits

Bioinformatics option
BIOL 230 Ecology (3 credits)
BIOL 310 Human Physiology (4 credits)
BIOL 330 Microbiology (4 credits)
BIOL 401 Intro to Bioinformatics (3 credits)
BIOL 410 Genetics (4 credits)
BIOL 430 Cell Physiology (4 credits)
CHEM310 Quantitative Analysis (4 credits)
26 credits

Computer sciences
CSCI 160 Computer Programming I (3 credits)
CSCI 210 Computer Programming II (3 credits)
CSCI 260 Data Structure (3 credits)
CSCI 300 Database Management (3 credits)
CSCI 401 Database Interface & Programming (3 credits)
15 credits

Behavioral sciences
3 credits

English
Composition (6 credits)
Speech (3 credits)
One Group A course (3 credits)
WRIT 316 Writing for Technical Professions (3 credits)
15 credits

Liberal arts
3 credits

Mathematics
MATH 141 College Algebra and Trigonometry (4 credits)
MATH 170 Calculus I (4 credits)
MATH 180 Calculus II (4 credits)
MATH 225 Biostatistics (3 credits)
15 credits

Physics
PHYS 170 Physics I (4 credits) PHYS 180 Physics II (4 credits)
8 credits

Social Sciences
Economics (3 credits)
History or Political Science (3 credits)
Philosophy (3 credits)
9 credits

* All entering first-year freshmen, transfer students with less than 12 credits and students on probation are required to complete the College Success Seminar.