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The following is a list of undergraduate courses offered by the Division of Life Sciences. The courses are arranged according to departmental affiliation. You may also consult the online Catalog, the online Schedule of Classes, or the course synopsis for more information. General Biology 01:119:115, 116, and 117 (formerly 01:119:101 and 102) are the only 100 level life science courses that count towards a major or minor in Biological Sciences.

The Office for Diversity and Academic Success in the Sciences (ODASIS) is an academic support unit within the Division of Life Sciences at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The goal of ODASIS is to increase the recruitment and academic success of underrepresented students, as well as educationally and economically disadvantaged students, who are interested in pursuing careers in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professions. ODASIS intends to improve the percentage of underrepresented students entering the scientific fields by encouraging academic achievement in the sciences through unique and rigorous academic support. By cultivating the number, participation, and success of underrepresented and disadvantaged students who pursue scientific disciplines, ODASIS aims to minimize the achievement gap in professional education as well as create a highly qualified and diverse workforce.

The mission of the Rutgers Health Professions Office is to serve current students, alumni, and post-baccalaureate students of the schools of Rutgers, New Brunswick who are interested in pursuing a career within the health professions. We seek to use collaborative advising to empower students to create and implement academic and extracurricular plans that integrate their professional goal of becoming a health care professional with the university’s threefold mission of education, research, and service.

The major in Biological Sciences is a program offered by the Division of Life Sciences. Because this program shares a Core Curriculum with the three department-based majors in the Division of Life Sciences (Cell Biology and Neuroscience; Genetics; Molecular Biology and Biochemistry), all students end up with the same solid background. While a distinct advantage of the Biological Sciences major is the flexibility it affords the student in designing a course of study in biology beyond the Core Curriculum, our objective is that our graduates should end up with not only a solid foundation in biological sciences but also a suitable preparation for their intended post-baccalaureate career.

The explosion of information and ever-increasing understanding of biological systems at a molecular level makes this an extraordinarily exciting time to embark on graduate studies in the biomedical and life sciences. We offer our students an innovative and integrated curriculum with training in fields such as Biochemistry, Genetics, Cell and Developmental Biology, Pharmacology, Physiology, Structural and Computational Biology.