Requirements for a Major in Biotechnology
BI 201 or BI 141 Cell Biology
BI 204 Microbiology
BT 375 Tissue Culture
BT 376 Biotechnology
BT 410 Biotechnology Seminar
CH 120 & CH 121 General Chemistry I & II
CH 201 & CH 203 Organic Chemistry I, plus Lab
CH 210 Chemical Analysis
CH 410 Biochemistry I
Plus three major electives that include:
Major Electives
BI 203 Genetics
BI 372 Immunology
BI 371 Molecular Biology
BI 252 Radiation Biology
BI 375 Virology
CH 350 Medicinal Chemistry
CH 202 Organic Chemistry II
CH 204 Organic Chemistry II Lab
PY 310 Modern Physics
CH 411 Biochemistry II
BI 341 Mycology
BT 377 Fermentation Technology
BT 378 Bioinformatics
And certain other BI 300 level courses.
In addition, majors are expected to complete the following ancillary courses:
MA 190 Precalculus (may be waived), MA 200 & MA 201 Calculus I & II, MA 150 Statistics, PY 221 & PY 222 General Physics I & II, CS 120 Microcomputer Applications,
EN 252 Technical Writing or EN 253 Business Communications.
Requirements for a Major in Biotechnology and to meet the prerequisites for the Accelerated Pharmacy Program with Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science (Please see program description on page 56)
All of the courses listed for a major in biotechnology plus:
BI 140 Introduction to Organismal Biology
BI 141 Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Biology
CH 202 Organic Chemistry II
CH 204 Organic Chemistry Laboratory II
Major in Biotechnology, Concentration in Bioinformatics
The purpose of this interdisciplinary concentration is to prepare students to enter the computer-intensive fields of bioinformatics, computational biology, computational chemistry, and molecular modeling including genomics and proteomics. With the advent of the Human Genome Project, an explosion of genomics information has occurred, and databases such as GenBank and EMBL have grown at a rate that now requires storage, organizing and indexing of the information. Questions of gene expression have led to computational biology, the process of analyzing genomic sequences and to the field of proteomics, the
understanding of protein structure and function. The information obtained by computational biology and computational chemistry is used in the design of new drugs to treat a variety of diseases. Major drug and biotechnology companies are seeking people trained in bioinformatics.
In addition to the requirements for the Major in Biotechnology:
BT 378 Bioinformatics*
CS 140 Introduction to Programming
CS 242 Data Sructures
CS 282 UNIX Systems Programming
CS 265 Database Applications
*counts as an upper division Cellular/Molecular Biology elective.