Recommended Academic Plan for Microbiology (MICRB 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 210 Organic Chemistry	3	CHEM 212 Organic Chemistry	3
BIOL 222 Genetics	3	CHEM 213 Laboratory in Organic Chemistry	2
MICRB 251 Molecular & Cell Biology I	3	MICRB 252 Molecular & Cell Biology II	3
PHYS 251 (GN)Introductory Physics II	4	MICRB 201 Introductory Microbiology	3
± LIST C FREE ELECTIVE	3	MICRB 202 Introductory Microbiology Laboratory	2
		Arts (GA), Humanities (GH) or Social Behavioral Sciences (GS)	3
Total Credits:	16	Total Credits:	16
Semester 5	Credits	Semester 6	Credits
Arts (GA), Humanities (GH) or Social Behavioral Sciences (GS)	3	BMB 402 General Biochemistry	3
BMB 401 General Biochemistry	2	*MICRB ELECT	3
*MICRB ELECT	3	#MICRB ELECT	2
MICRB 421W Laboratory of General & Applied Microbiology	3	MICRB 342 Laboratory in Proteins, Nucleic Acids, & Molecular Cloning	3
CAS 100 A, B, or C (GWS) Effective Speech	3	Arts (GA), Humanities (GH) or Social Behavioral Sciences (GS)	3
Health & Physical Activity (GHA)	1	Health & Physical Activity (GHA)	2
Total Credits:	15	Total Credits:	16
Semester 7	Credits	Semester 8	Credits
*MICRB ELECT	3	@MICRB ELECT	2-3
#MICRB ELECT	1	*MICRB ELECT	2-3
@MICRB ELECT	3-4	ENGL 202C (GWS) Technical Writing	3
BMB 400 Molecular Biology of the Gene	3	Arts (GA), Humanities (GH) or Social Behavioral Sciences (GS)	6
BMB 428 Physical Chemistry with Biological Applications	3	± LIST C FREE ELECTIVES	1-3
± LIST C FREE ELECTIVES	3
Total Credits:	16-17	Total Credits:	15-16

• 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 select 4 courses from: MICRB 401 (3), 410 (3), 412 (3), 415 (3), 450 (2)
• # indicates select 3 credits from: MICRB 422 (2), 447 (1), BMB 445W (2), 446 (1)
• @ indicates select 6-7 credits from: FdSc 408 (2), or any 400 level MICRB course except MICRB 400 and 496
• ± indicates see the Department List C 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

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

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