Biochemistry

If you're a premed who does not feel strongly attracted to any one field, then Biochemical Sciences is the field for you.

The requirements for concentration are the courses you would take as a premed anyway, plus one or two others. You then have time to take courses of general interest in several other fields.

Another advantage of this field is its tutorial. Every concentrator gets individual tutorial whether he is an honors candidate or not. Many of the tutors are instructors at the Medical School, and all are experienced in advising premeds.

The department's requirements are among the most liberal and also among the most complicated in the College. They include two and a half courses in Chemistry, one course in Biology, one course in Physics, one course in Mathematics, and two and a half additional courses chosen from those fields.

Candidates for honors must write theses based on original research. For this work they are given laboratory facilities and often are assigned a research instructor to whom they can go for assistance.

A sign of the field's broadness is its required general exams to test the student's knowledge of "the general phenomena of life and those principles of the fundamental sciences which are significance in their interpretation."