Recommended Academic Plan for Biotechnology General Option (BIOTC Gen at UP)
For students entering Summer 2005 and later

Semester 1	Credits	Semester 2	Credits
MATH 140 (GQ) Calculus with Analytic Geometry I	4	MATH 141(GQ) Calculus with Analytic Geometry II	4
CHEM 110(GN) Chemical Principles	3	CHEM 112(GN) Chemical Principals	3
CHEM 111 (GN) Experimental Chemistry	1	CHEM 113 (GN) Experimental Chemistry	1
PSU 016 First-Year Seminar	1	ENGL 15 OR 30 (GWS) Composition/Honors Composition	3
Arts (GA), Humanities (GH) or Social Behavioral Sciences (GS)	6	PHYS 250 (GN)Introduction Physics I	4
Total Credits:	15	Total Credits:	15
Semester 3	Credits	Semester 4	Credits
CHEM 202 or 210 Organic Chemistry	3	CHEM 203 or 212 Organic Chemistry	3
BIOL 222 Genetics	3	*CHEM 213 Laboratory in Organic Chemistry	2
BMB 251 Molecular & Cell Biology I	3	BMB 252 Molecular & Cell Biology II	3
PHYS 251 (GN)Introductory Physics II	4	MICRB 201 Introductory Microbiology	3
Arts (GA), Humanities (GH) or Social Behavioral Sciences (GS)	3	MICRB 202 Introductory Microbiology Laboratory	2
		± FREE ELECTIVES	3
		Health & Physical Activity (GHA)	1
Total Credits:	16	Total Credits:	15-17
Semester 5	Credits	Semester 6	Credits
BMB 211 Elementary Biochemistry	3	BMB 221 Applied Biochemistry	2
MICRB 410 Principles of Immunology	3	BIOTC 459 Plant Tissue Culture & Biotechnology	3
MICRB 421W Laboratory of General & Applied Microbiology	3	BMB 342 Lab in Proteins, Nucleic Acids, & Molecular Cloning	3
± FREE ELECTIVES	3	ENGL 202C Technical Writing	3
CAS 100 A, B, or C (GWS) Effective Speech	3	Health & Physical Activity (GHA)	1
Health & Physical Activity (GHA)	1	STAT 250 (GQ) Introduction to Biostatistics	3
Total Credits:	16	Total Credits:	15
Semester 7	Credits	Semester 8	Credits
BIOTC 416 Microbial Biotechnology	2	Arts (GA), Humanities (GH) or Social Behavioral Sciences (GS)	3
Arts (GA), Humanities (GH) or Social Behavioral Sciences (GS)	6	400 LEVEL ELECTIVE	3
BIOTC 489 Animal Cell Culture Methods	3	BIOTC 479 Methods in Biofermentations	3
400 LEVEL ELECTIVE	3	± FREE ELECTIVES	5-7
± FREE ELECTIVES	3
Total Credits:	17	Total Credits:	14-16

• Bold Italics indicates course requires a grade of C or better for entrance into this major
• Italics indicate courses that satisfy both major and General Education requirements.
• Bold type indicates all 3 courses are required to graduate, a grade of C or better is required in 2 of the 3 courses.
• * indicates student should schedule CHEM 213 if they have elected to take the CHEM 210, 212 and 213 series.
• ± indicates see the Department List for exclusions.
• To graduate students must earn a C or higher in 9 credits of any 400-level BMB/ MICRB courses except BMB 443, 444, 445, BMB/MICRB 495, 496, MICRB 421W, 422, 447
• GWS, GHA, GQ, GN, GA, GH, and GS are codes used to identify General Education requirements.
• W is the code used to designate courses that satisfy University Writing Across the Curriculum requirements.

Scheduling patterns for courses not taught each semester

Fall - only taught courses: BMB 251H, 400, 401H, 428, 430, 443W, 446, 464 BMB/MICRB 435, 450 MICRB 401, 413, 421W and MICRB/BIOTC 416 BIOTC 489

Spring - only taught courses: BMB 221, 252H, 402H, 433, 437, 444, 445W, 474, 497A, 497B BMB/MICRB 252, 432, 460, 480 MICRB 201H, 412, 415, 422, 447 BIOTC 459, 460

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