Academic Catalog 2024-2025 
    
    Oct 05, 2024  
Academic Catalog 2024-2025

Biochemistry, B.S.


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Requirements for the Major


Nine courses in Biology and Chemistry:


Requirements for Honors in Biochemistry


Students eligible for honors in biochemistry must satisfactorily complete a thesis, traditionally based on the results of original research. It is customary, but not required, that students enroll in three honors research courses, typically during the senior year.

In addition students must fulfill the following criteria:

  1. have achieved a cumulative index of 3.3 or better
  2. have an index of 3.3 or better in courses taken in the major (this dos not include cognate courses in math and physics or grades associated with senior thesis (BIO 491, BIO 492 and BIO 493). At least three of the courses used to calculate the major GPA must have a grade of A- or better
  3. Students eligible for honors in biochemistry must satisfactorily complete a thesis, traditionally based on the results of original research, that receives the approval of the subcommittee for biochemistry, on which a grade of not lower than A- has been earned. It is customary, but not required, that students enroll in three honors research courses, typically during the senior year.

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