The Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience offers a program of study from which students can select one of two options (tracks), depending upon particular interests and career goals: option A (general track) and option B (honors research track). Normally, each student would select a track in consultation with a departmental adviser in the semester that the major is declared. A number of core courses are required of all students in the cell biology and neuroscience major, regardless of the chosen option. No more than 16 credits from among
the life science courses required for completion of the cell biology and
neuroscience major may be fulfilled by credits transferred from any school
outside of Rutgers-New Brunswick.
Required Core Courses (59 credits)
01:119:101-102 General Biology (4,4)*
01:146:245 Fundamentals of Neurobiology (3)
01:146:270 Fundamentals of Cell and Developmental Biology (3)
01:160:161-162 or 01:160:163-164 General Chemistry (4,4)*
01:160:171 Introduction to Experimentation (1)*
01:160:307-308 or 01:160: 315-316 Organic Chemistry (4,4)*
01:160:311 Organic Chemistry Laboratory (2)*
01:447:380 Genetics (4)*
01:640:135, 138** or 01:640:151-152 Calculus (4,4)*
01:694:407-408 Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (3,3) or the following two courses: 01:694:301
Introductory Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (3) and 01:146:478 Molecular
Biology (3)
01:750:203-204 General Physics (3,3)***
01:750:205-206 General Physics Laboratory (1,1)***
