Major Requirements

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 University-New Brunswick.

Required Core Courses (59 credits)

  01:119:115-116  General Biology (4,4)*

  01:119:117  Biological Research Laboratory (2)*

  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  or 01:160:165-166  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 01:640:135-136 or 01:640:151-152  Calculus (4,4)*

  01:694:408 or 01:146:478  Molecular Biology (3)

  01:750:203-204  General Physics (3,3) or 01:750:271-272  Honors Physics (3,3)***

  01:750:205-206  General Physics Laboratory (1,1)***