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Biology Major — Biotechnology Concentration

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Degree Requirements

General Education Requirements

First-Year Seminar - Total Credits: 2-3

English Composition - Total Credits: 6

Second - Year Seminar - Total Credits: 3

Constitutions - Total Credits: 4-6

Mathematics

Distribution Requirement Life and Physical Sciences and Analytical Thinking

Fulfilled by requirements for major

Humanities and Fine Arts - Total Credits: 9

Social Science - Total Credits: 9

Multicultural and International

(see note 2 below)

Additional Degree Requirements

Biology-Biotechnology Requirements - Total Credits: 20-24

A minimum of five courses are required.


  • and a minimum of two upper-division BIOL courses from lists B and D with at least one from list A, C or E. Other course work important for biotechnology careers, such as Quality Assurance/Quality Control may be petitioned to be substituted for UNLV courses.

List A: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

List B: Cell and Molecular Biology

List C: Anatomical and Morphological Biology

List D: Physiological Biology

List E: Organismal Biology

Electives - Total Credits: 0-11

Total Credits: 120

Notes

  1. It is strongly recommended that students take SCI 101 to satisfy the First Year Seminar requirement.
  2. Every student must complete a multicultural course and international course. Courses satisfying other requirements may simultaneously satisfy the multicultural and international requirements except one course cannot satisfy both the multicultural and the international requirements.
  3. It is strongly recommended that students interested in biomedicine or attending graduate school take additional appropriate upper-division biology courses and research units to meet their elective credit requirements.
  4. At least 40 credits must be earned at the upper-division level (300 and above).

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