UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2024-2025

This ADT/STAR Act Degree Road Map applies to the following catalog year(s):

Lower division GE partially completed (see GE comments below*). Lower division major requirements of BIOL 106/L, BIOL 107/L, CHEM 101/L, CHEM 102/L, MATH 255A, PHYS 100A/L, PHYS 100B/L satisfied by the AS-T in Biology.

Transfer Year 1: First Semester

Course Units
BIOL 322 3
BIOL 360 (meets GE B5 Scientific Inquiry and Quantitative Reasoning) 3
CHEM 333/L and CHEM 333D 3/1/1
GE Lower Division Social Sciences (if needed to total 9 units including transfer coursework)* 3
GE Lower Division Arts and Humanities (if needed to total 9 units including transfer coursework)* 3
Total 17

Transfer Year 1: Second Semester

Course Units
BIOL 315/L 2/2
BIOL 380 3
BIOL 381 1
CHEM 334/L 3/1
GE Upper Division from Section C or Section F 3
Total 15

Transfer Year 2: First Semester

Course Units
BIOL 470 3
BIOL 472/L 2/2
CHEM 464/L 3/1
Elective 3
Total 14

Transfer Year 2: Second Semester

Course Units
BIOL 477/L 2/2
Biotechnology Selective Program (see list below) 6-8
GE Upper Division from Section D or Section F 3
Elective 0-1
Total 14-15
Total units after transfer 60

One course for the degree must have an Ethnic Studies/ES designation.

*The AS-T in Biology requires completion of a total of 9 lower division units in each of GE Arts and Humanities (Area C), and GE Social Sciences (Area D), as per CSU GE Breadth for STEM or IGETC for STEM pattern.

Biotechnology Selective Program (6-8 units)

Choose two from the following list:

BIOL 330/L Design and Analysis of Experiments and Lab (2/1)
BIOL 382/L Human Anatomy and Physiology I and Lab (3/1)
BIOL 383/L Human Anatomy and Physiology I and Lab (3/1)
BIOL 408/L Applied Microbiology and Lab (2/2)
BIOL 417/L Microbial Physiology and Lab (2/2)
BIOL 418/L Bacterial Diversity and Lab (2/2)
BIOL 419/L/BIOL 492C Microbial Ecology and Lab and Field Studies (2/1/1)
BIOL 431/L Food and Microbiology and Lab (2/2)
BIOL 437/L/BIOL 492V Biology of Fungi and Field Studies (2/1/1)
BIOL 442/L Developmental Biology and Lab (3/1)
BIOL 444 Biology of Viruses (3)
BIOL 461 The Molecular Genetics of Microorganisms (3)
BIOL 462 Molecular Genetics of Eukaryotic Organisms (3)
BIOL 464 Human Biochemical Genetics (3)
BIOL 466 Genetics of Bacteria and Their Viruses (3)
BIOL 468 Human Genetics (3)
BIOL 471A Molecular Diagnostics (3)
BIOL 473 Clinical Cytogenetics and Cancer Genetics (3)
BIOL 474/L Biological Imaging and Lab (2/2)
BIOL 476 Topics in Stem Cell Biology (3)
BIOL 479 Endocrinology (3)
BIOL 480/L Cellular Physiology and Lab (2/2)
BIOL 481/L Plant Physiology and Lab (2/2)
BIOL 482/L Animal Physiology and Lab (2/2)
BIOL 483/L Principles of Neurophysiology and Lab (3/1)
BIOL 485/L Immunology with Serology and Lab (2/2)
BIOL 489 Cellular Immunology (3)
BIOL 493 Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogenesis (3)
BIOL 503/L Bioinformatics and Lab (3/1)
BIOL 551/L Computer Modeling in Biology and Lab (2/2)
CHEM 321/L Chemical Analysis I and Lab (2/2)