The Department of Cell
Biology and Neuroscience offers a program of study from which students can
select one of two tracks, depending upon particular interests and career goals:
a general track (default) and an honors track. Students can apply to enter the
honors track at the beginning of the senior year. This track requires a minimum
GPA of 3.4 in courses credited toward the major, and departmental approval. A
number of core courses are required of all students in the cell biology and
neuroscience major, regardless of the chosen track. 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. Any life science courses applied
to the major should be taken within 10 years of graduating.
Required Core Courses (65 or more credits)
01:119:115-116 General Biology
(4,4)
01:119:117 Biological Research
Laboratory (2)
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)
01:750:203-204 General Physics (3,3) or
01:750:193-194 Physics for the Sciences(4,4)*or 01:750:271-272 Honors Physics
(3,3)
01:750:205-206 General Physics Laboratory
(1,1)
01:640:135,136 or
01:640:151-152 Calculus I and II (4,4) or 01:640:135 and 01:960:401 Basic Stat
for Research (3) or 01:960:379 Basic Prob and Stat or 01:640:135 and 01:960:212
Statistics II (3)**
01:447:380 Genetics (4)
01:146:245
Fundamentals of Neurobiology (3)
01:146:270 Fundamentals of Cell Biology (3)
01:694:395 Biochemistry for Life Sciences (3) or 01:694:407 Biochemistry (3)
Advanced Cell Biology and Neuroscience Courses: choose three of the
following:
01:146:445 Synapses, Neurons, and Circuits (3)
01:146:447 Clinical Neurobiology (3)
01:146:465 Neurobiology of Pain and Addiction (3)
01:146:472 Developmental Biology (3)
01:146:473¿ Genetic Regulation in Cell Biology¿(3)
01:146:474 Immunology (3) or 01:146:476¿ Honors Immunology (3)
01:146:481 Protein Dynamics in Cell Biology (3)
* with approval from the Undergraduate Director or CBN Advisor 01:160:308 may be replaced by an additional elective course.
**
Students who take who take Physics for the Sciences 01:750:193-194 (4,4) do not need an additional Physics laboratory.
*** Students with AP statistics equivalent of 01:960:211, transfer credit for 01:960:211, or who have taken 01:960:211 at Rutgers must take 01:960:212.
