Administrative Information: Courses

What courses count?

The basic principle is that students from the Life Sciences (Molecular Biology or Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) have to take five Engineering School Courses; and students from any of the Engineering Departments have to take five courses from a Life Science Department.

Within these guidelines we try to be flexible. A listing of acceptable courses is given below. This list changes frequently, so ask if you have specific questions.

Courses for Engineering Majors:

Any course in Molecular Biology or Ecology and Evolutionary Biology counts. Cross-listed courses count if they have significant biology content.

Psychology courses with significant physiology content count:

PSY 256 - The Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
PSY 258 - Fundamentals of Neuroscience
PSY 259B - Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience
PSY 322 - Human-Machine Interaction
PSY 406 - Functional Neuroanatomy
PSY 407 - Developmental Neuroscience

For Engineering students whose Department does not require Organic Chemistry (i.e. all other than Chemical Engineering) then the two course Organic Chemistry sequence counts as one life science course.

These Engineering School courses also have significant biology content and count as life science courses:

CHE 431 - Energetics Biological Macromolecules
CHE 432 - Dynamics of Cellular Processes
CHE 443 - Separations in Chemical and Biochemical Processes
CHE 447 - Biochemical Engineering
CHE 423 - Biologically Inspired Materials
COS 445 - Introduction to Genomics and Computational Molecular Biology
MAE 344 - Introduction to Bioengineering and Medical Devices

Courses for Life Science Majors:

Any course in the Engineering School counts. Three popular courses for students in the program are COS 126 or CIV 201 (computer science courses), MAE 305 (differential equations - the language of engineering), and CIV 245 (statistics and statistical design of experiments). The other courses to take depend upon your specific interests.