2024-2025 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog [In Progress]
Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences
Requirements
Degree Requirements
Students must complete the general university degree requirements as identified in the General Academic Policies section of the Grand Valley State University Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog.
Required Biomedical Sciences Courses
- BMS 208 - Human Anatomy (3 credits)
- BMS 212 - Introductory Microbiology (3 credits)
- BMS 213 - Laboratory in Microbiology (1 credit)
- BMS 290 - Human Physiology (3 credits)
- BMS 391 - Laboratory in Human Physiology (2 credits)
- BMS 495 - Concepts in Wellness (Capstone) (3 credits)
Additional Required Courses
- BIO 120 - General Biology I (4 credits)
- BIO 355 - Human Genetics (3 credits) OR BOTH BIO 375 - Genetics (3 credits) AND BIO 376 - Genetics Laboratory (1 credit)
- CHM 115 - Principles of Chemistry I (4 credits)
- CHM 116 - Principles of Chemistry II (5 credits)
- CHM 241 - Organic Chemistry for Life Sciences I (5 credits)
- CHM 242 - Organic Chemistry for Life Sciences II (4 credits)
- CHM 461 - Biochemistry I (4 credits)
- MTH 122 - College Algebra (3 credits)
- MTH 123 - Trigonometry (3 credits)
- PHY 220 - General Physics I (5 credits)
- PHY 221 - General Physics II (5 credits)
- STA 215 - Introductory Applied Statistics (3 credits)
Biomedical Sciences Electives
Nine additional hours of upper-division (BMS 300-level and higher) biomedical sciences courses, excluding BMS 374 and BMS 495.
In addition, the following courses outside of BMS may also be included in these nine hours:
- BIO 302 - Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy (4 credits)
- BIO 416 - Advanced Genetics Laboratory (2 credits)
- BIO 422 - Animal Developmental Biology (3 credits)
- CMB 451 - Bioinformatics: Tools and Techniques for Life Scientists (3 credits)
- CMB 405 - Cell and Molecular Biology (4 credits)
- CMB 406 - Cell and Molecular Biology Laboratory (2 credits)
- CMB 411 - Genetics of Development and Cancer (3 credits)
- CMB 414 - Molecular Biology of the Gene (3 credits)
- CMB 426 - Research Applications in Molecular Genetics (4 credits)
- CMB 440 - Research Applications in Drosophila Genomics (3 credits)
- CMB 452 - Computer Modeling and Drug Design (3 credits)
- CMB 460 - Genomics and Molecular Diagnostics (3 credits)
- CHM 462 - Techniques in Biochemistry (3 credits)
- CHM 463 - Biochemistry II (3 credits)