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2010-2011 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog

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Biomedical Sciences - Microbiology Emphasis

Program Advisors: Baxter, D. Burg, Graham, Hecht, Nieuwkoop.

Graduates from this emphasis will be prepared to enter a graduate program in microbiology or biotechnology. It would be an excellent emphasis for a premedical student interested in infectious disease. In addition, the laboratory-rich aspect of this emphasis will prepare a graduate for becoming a microbiology/biotechnology laboratory technician. Because it is impossible to design one curriculum to fulfill the requirements of every graduate school or laboratory, it is the students responsibility, in consultation with an advisor, to see that the requirements are fulfilled for the particular school(s)/job(s) in which the student is interested. This major, although directed, allows sufficient flexibility to accommodate specific requirements that various programs may have.

Major Requirements

1. General University Degree Requirements

As identified in the General Academic Policies section of the Grand Valley State University Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog.

2. Required Biomedical Sciences Courses

3. Required Cognate Courses

4. Science Courses

Six additional hours of upper-division science courses from the following:



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