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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Biochemistry, B.S.


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A minimum of 120 credit hours is required for a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry.

Major Requirements


62 credits:

Notes


Students normally take BIOL 410 Seminar (1)  in their senior year. BIOL 451 Bio. Senior UG Research (1-4)  /CHEM 451 Chemistry UG Senior Research (1-3)  and HP 471 may be substituted for BIOL 410 Seminar (1)  or CHEM 410 Seminar (1)  with the permission of the department chair.

Students considering medical, graduate or professional work in biochemistry research are advised to select BIOCH 406 Advanced Biomedical Analysis (4) , CHEM 304 Physical Chemistry II (3)  and CHEM 420 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (4)  as elective courses. Pre-medical and pre-dental students should select BIOL 298 Anatomy and Physiology I (4)  and BIOL 299 Anatomy and Physiology II (4)  and other elective courses in consultation with the health professions advisor.

No minor in biochemistry is available. Biochemistry majors may not minor in either chemistry or biology. Exceptional students may double major in biochemistry and either biology or chemistry by taking all the courses required of both majors. To complete the double major in four years, students generally need Advanced Placement, summer school or overload credits.

To receive a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry, students must complete a minimum of 120 credit hours. Students must also earn a major GPA of 2.0, and a cumulative GPA of 2.0.

Core Requirements (46 to 49 credits)


The First Year Symposium (3 credits)


Complete the First Year Symposium

World Language Requirement (3-6 Credits)


Complete either 6 credits at the 101 and 102 level or 3 credits at the 200 level or above

  • Introductory Language (For students beginning at the 101 level)
    • XXXX 101 (3)
    • XXXX 102 (3)
  • Advanced Language (For students who begin at the 201 level or above)
    • XXXX 201/301 (or higher).

Foundations of Philosophy (3 Credits)


Origins of the West (3 Credits)


Philosophy in the Modern Age (3 Credits)


Atlantic Encounters (3 Credits)


Mathematical Thinking (3 Credits)


Foundations of Theology: Faith and Revelation (3 Credits)


America in the World (3 Credits)


Theology: Made in God’s Image (3 Credits)


Modernity in Literature or the Arts (3 Credits)


Choose from among one of the following:

Laboratory Science (3-4 Credits)


Choose one laboratory science course:

Global Encounters (3 Credits)


Choose one Global Encounters course:

  • XXGE Global Encounters
    • Global Encounters courses are offered in many departments, including Business, Communication, English, Education, Foreign Language, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology and Theology.

Ethics and the Human Good (3 Credits)


Complete one of the following:

Ethical Leaders (0 Credits)


The Ethical Leadership Experiential Learning Core Requirement invites students to integrate their own personal call to leadership with a mature reflection on one or more of the core virtues of Justice, Courage, Integrity, and Humility.  Students will accomplish this by engaging in and reflecting upon the practice of virtue ethics within the context of one or more experiential learning activities.

Sample Four Year Sequence


Freshman Year

Fall Semester

FSYM 101 The First Year Symposium (3)  

World Languages I (3)

BIOL 110 Introduction to Biology I (4)  

CHEM 101 General Chemistry I (4)  

14 credits

Spring Semester

Foundation in Social Science (3)

World Languages II (3)

BIOL 111 Introduction to Biology II (4)  

CHEM 102 General Chemistry II (4)  

14 credits

Sophomore Year

Fall Semester

MATH 211 Mathematical Thinking (3)  

BIOL 221 Genetics (4)  

CHEM 201 Organic Chemistry I (4)  

MATH 247 Calculus I (4)  

15 credits

Spring Semseter

PHIL 103 Foundations of Philosophy (3)  

WCIV 102 Origins of the West (3)  

Elective (3)

CHEM 202 Organic Chemistry II (4)  

MATH 248 Calculus II (4)  

17 credits

Junior Year

Fall Semester

PHIL 203 Philosophy in the Modern Age (3)  

Elective (3)

BIOCH 405 Biochemistry I (4)  

PHYS 201 General Physics I (4)  

WCIV 201 Atlantic Encounters: 1450-1850 (3)  

17 credits

Spring Semester

THEOL 220 Foundations of Theology (3)  

AMER 202 America in the World (3)  

Elective (3)

BIOCH 406 Advanced Biomedical Analysis (4)  (recommended)*

PHYS 202 General Physics II (4)  

17 credits

Senior Year

Fall Semester

THEOL 320 Made In God’s Image (3)  

XXMO 300 Modernity in Lit./Art/Music/Theatre (3)

CHEM 210 Analytical Chemistry (4)  

CHEM 303 Physical Chemistry I (5)  

15 credits

Spring Semester

THEOL/PHIL 300 Ethics and The Human Good (3)

XXGE 3XX Global Encounters (3)

Elective (3)

BIOL 420 Molecular and Cellular Biology (4)  

BIOL 410 Seminar (1)   or CHEM 410 Seminar (1)  

14 credits

 

* Recommended but not required.

Completion of a minor in Foreign Language may require summer course work. ~Students testing into language at the 201 level or higher will take only one semester.

 

 

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