Curriculum
Freshman Year
- BILD 94:Professional Issues in Bioinformatics
- CHEM 6A:General Chemistry I
- CHEM 6B:General Chemistry II
- CHEM 6C:General Chemistry III
- CHEM 7L:Introductory Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory
- CSE 11:Introduction to Computer Science and Object-Oriented Programming: Java
- CSE 12:Basic Data Structures and Object-Oriented Design
- MATH 20A:Calculus for Science and Engineering
- MATH 20B:Calculus for Science and Engineering
- MATH 20C:Calculus and Analytic Geometry for Science and Engineering OR MATH 31BH: Honors Multivariable Calculus
- HSS:Humanities/Social Science College General Ed. Courses
Sophomore Year
- BILD 1:The Cell
- BILD 2:Multicellular Life
- BILD 3:Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
- CHEM140A:Organic Chemistry I
- CHEM140B:Organic Chemistry II
- MATH 20D:Introduction to Differential Equations
- MATH 15B or CSE 21:Mathematics for Algorithm and Systems
- PHYS 2A:Physics-Mechanics
- PHYS 2B:Physics-Electricity and Magnetism
- PHYS 2C:Physics-Fluids, Waves, Thermodynamics, and Optics
- HSS:Humanities/Social Science College General Ed. Courses
Junior Year
- BENG 181:Molecular Sequence Analysis
- BIBC 102 or CHEM 114B:Metabolic Biochemistry
- BICD 100:Genetics
- BICD 110:Cell Biology
- BIMM 100 or CHEM 114C:Molecular Biology
- BIMM 101 or CHEM 112B:Recombinant DNA Techniques
- CSE 100 or MATH 176:Advanced Data Structures
- CSE 101 or MATH 188:Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- MATH 20F:Linear Algebra OR MATH 31AH:Honors Linear Algebra
- MATH 186:Probability Statistics for Bioinformatics
- HSS:Humanities/Social Science College General Ed. Courses
Senior Year
- BENG 130:Molecular Physical Chemistry
- BENG 182:Biological Databases
- BENG 183:Applied Genomic Technologies
- BENG 184:Computational Molecular Biology
- BENG 191:Senior Seminar I: Professional Issues in Bioengineering (recommended, not required)
- BIBC 103:Biochemical Techniques
- BIMM 185:Bioinformatics Laboratory (Advanced)
- HSS: Humanities/Social Science College General Ed. Courses
- TE: Technical Elective Courses (three 4-unit upper division courses)