Program Overview

School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

The School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics offers a double major in Molecular Biology and Healthcare Management, leading to a Bachelor of Science degree.

Program Overview

The program requires 152-153 semester credit hours and is designed to provide students with a strong foundation in molecular biology and healthcare management.

Faculty

The faculty for this program includes:

• Professors: Ashiq Ali, Alain Bensoussan, Gary Bolton, Metín Çakanyildirim, Huseyin Cavusoglu, William M. Cready, Milind Dawande, Theodore E. Day, Gregory G. Dess, Umit G. Gurun, Varghese S. Jacob, Sanjay Jain, Ganesh Janakiraman, Elena Katok, Dmitri Kuksov, Nanda Kumar, Seung-Hyun Lee, Stanley Liebowitz, Zhiang (John) Lin, Sumit K. Majumdar, Stanimir Markov, Syam Menon, Vijay S. Mookerjee, B. P. S. Murthi, Vikram Nanda, Özalp Özer, Mike W. Peng, Hasan Pirkul, Suresh Radhakrishnan, Srinivasan Raghunathan, Ram C. Rao, Brian Ratchford, Michael J. Rebello, Sumit Sarkar, Suresh P. Sethi, Kathryn E. Stecke, Wing Kwong (Eric) Tsang, Harold Zhang, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng
• Associate Professors: Mehmet Ayvaci, Nina Baranchuk, Norris Bruce, Jianqing Chen, Zhonglan Dai, Rebecca Files, Dorothée Honhon, Bin Hu, Kyle Hyndman, Surya N. Janakiraman, Robert L. Kieschnick Jr., Atanu Lahiri, Jun Li, Ningzhong Li, Lívia Markóczy, Amit Mehra, Toyah Miller, Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan, Naim Bugra Ozel, H. Dennis Park, Cuili Qian, Orlando C. Richard, Young U. Ryu, Gil Sadka, Harpreet Singh, David J. Springate, Upender Subramanian, Kelsey D. Wei, Han (Victor) Xia, Jun Xia, Ying Xie, Yexiao Xu, Alejandro Zentner, Jieying Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Feng Zhao, Yibin Zhou
• Assistant Professors: Khai Chiong, Emily Choi, Andrew Frazelle, Ying Huang, Joonhwi Joo, Sora Jun, Sheen Levine, Meng Li, Maria Loumioti, Jean-Marie Meier, Radha Mookerjee, Anyan Qi, Alejandro Rivera Mesias, Alessio Saretto, Simon Siegenthaler, Serdar Simsek, Shaojie Tang, Xiaoxiao Tang, Shervin Tehrani, Ashwin Venkataraman, Christian Von-Drathen, Guihua Wang, Shouqiang Wang, Junfeng Wu, Steven Xiao, Yingjie Zhang, Zhe (James) Zhang, Xiaofei Zhao
• Professors Emeriti: Dale Osborne, John J. Wiorkowski
• Assistant Professors Emeriti: J. Richard Harrison, Jane Salk
• Clinical Professors: John Barden, Britt Berrett, Abhijit Biswas, Ranavir Bose, Shawn Carraher, Larry Chasteen, David Cordell, Howard Dover, John Gamino, Randall S. Guttery, Charles Hazzard, William Hefley, Marilyn Kaplan, Sonia Leach, Peter Lewin, Jeffrey Manzi, Diane S. McNulty, Divakar Rajamani, Daniel Rajaratnam, Kannan Ramanathan, David Ritchey, Rajiv Shah, Mark Thouin, Jeff Weekley, Habte Woldu, Fang Wu, Laurie L. Ziegler
• Clinical Associate Professors: Shawn Alborz, Dawn Owens, David Parks, Carolyn Reichert, Avanti P. Sethi, Ramesh Subramoniam, Aysegul Toptal, McClain Watson, David Widdifield
• Clinical Assistant Professors: Athena Alimirzaei, Moran Blueshtein, Judd Bradbury, Sourav Chatterjee, Jerome Gafford, Ayfer Gurun, Maria Hasenhuttl, Julie Haworth, Jeffery (Jeff) Hicks, Revansiddha Khanapure, Kristen Lawson, Kathryn Lookadoo, Liping Ma, Sarah Moore, Ravi Narayan, Parneet Pahwa, Jason Parker, Drew Peabody, Nassim Sohaee
• Assistant Professor of Instruction: Rasoul Ramezani
• Senior Lecturers: Khatereh Ahadi, Semiramis Amirpour, Frank Anderson, Tiffany A. Bortz, Richard Bowen, Monica E. Brussolo, Juliann Chapman, George DeCourcy, Alexander Edsel, Amal El-Ashmawi, Negin Enayaty Ahangar, Mary Beth Goodrich, Thomas (Tom) Henderson, Abu Naser Islam, Scott Janke, Jennifer G. Johnson, Jackie Kimzey, Chris Linsteadt, Joseph Mauriello, Victoria D. McCrady, Edward Meda, Robert (Stephen) Molina, Prithi Narasimhan, Mohammad Naseri Taheri, Madison Pedigo, Matt Polze, Debra Richardson, Gaurav Shekhar, Margaret Smallwood, Steven Solcher, Timothy Stephens, Luell (Lou) Thompson, Guido Tirone, Robert Wright, Kathy Zolton, Hubert Zydorek

Program Requirements

The program requires 152-153 semester credit hours, including:

Core Curriculum Requirements

• Communication: 6 semester credit hours
• Mathematics: 3 semester credit hours
  • MATH 2417 Calculus I
  • or MATH 2413 Differential Calculus
• Life and Physical Sciences: 6 semester credit hours
  • CHEM 1311 General Chemistry I
  • or CHEM 1315 Honors Freshman Chemistry I
  • CHEM 1312 General Chemistry II
  • or CHEM 1316 Honors Freshman Chemistry II
• Language, Philosophy and Culture: 3 semester credit hours
• Creative Arts: 3 semester credit hours
• American History: 6 semester credit hours
• Government/Political Science: 6 semester credit hours
  • GOVT 2305 American National Government
  • GOVT 2306 State and Local Government
• Social and Behavioral Sciences: 3 semester credit hours
  • Choose one of the following:
    • BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems
    • BA 1320 Business in a Global World
    • ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics
    • ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics
• Component Area Option: 6 semester credit hours
  • Choose two of the following:
    • MATH 2419 Calculus II
    • or MATH 2414 Integral Calculus
    • BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems
    • BA 1320 Business in a Global World
    • ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics
    • ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics

Major Requirements

• Biology Major Preparatory Courses: 20-21 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum
  • CHEM 1111 General Chemistry Laboratory I
  • or CHEM 1115 Honors Freshman Chemistry Laboratory I
  • CHEM 1112 General Chemistry Laboratory II
  • or CHEM 1116 Honors Freshman Chemistry Laboratory II
  • CHEM 1311 General Chemistry I
  • or CHEM 1315 Honors Freshman Chemistry I
  • CHEM 1312 General Chemistry II
  • or CHEM 1316 Honors Freshman Chemistry II
  • CHEM 2123 Introductory Organic Chemistry Laboratory I
  • CHEM 2125 Introductory Organic Chemistry Laboratory II
  • CHEM 2323 Introductory Organic Chemistry I
  • CHEM 2325 Introductory Organic Chemistry II
  • MATH 2417 Calculus I
  • or MATH 2413 Differential Calculus
  • MATH 2419 Calculus II
  • or MATH 2414 Integral Calculus
  • PHYS 2325 Mechanics
  • and PHYS 2125 Physics Laboratory I
  • or PHYS 2421 Honors Physics I - Mechanics and Heat
  • PHYS 2326 Electromagnetism and Waves
  • or PHYS 2422 Honors Physics II - Electromagnetism and Waves
  • PHYS 2126 Physics Laboratory II
• Biology Core Courses: 33 semester credit hours
  • BIOL 2111 Introduction to Modern Biology Workshop I
  • BIOL 2112 Introduction to Modern Biology Workshop II
  • BIOL 2281 Introductory Biology Laboratory
  • BIOL 2311 Introduction to Modern Biology I
  • BIOL 2312 Introduction to Modern Biology II
  • BIOL 3101 Classical and Molecular Genetics Workshop
  • BIOL 3102 Eukaryotic Molecular and Cell Biology Workshop
  • BIOL 3161 Biochemistry Workshop I
  • BIOL 3162 Biochemistry Workshop II
  • BIOL 3301 Classical and Molecular Genetics
  • BIOL 3302 Eukaryotic Molecular and Cell Biology
  • BIOL 3361 Biochemistry I
  • BIOL 3362 Biochemistry II
  • or BIOL 3335 Microbial Physiology
  • BIOL 3380 Biochemistry Laboratory
  • BIOL 4461 Biophysical Chemistry
• Business Major Preparatory Courses: 12 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum
  • ACCT 2301 Introductory Financial Accounting
  • ACCT 2302 Introductory Management Accounting
  • BLAW 2301 Business and Public Law
  • OPRE 3360 Managerial Methods in Decision Making Under Uncertainty
  • or STAT 2332 Introductory Statistics for Life Sciences
  • or STAT 3360 Probability and Statistics for Management and Economics
  • Choose two of the following:
    • BA 1310 Making Choices in Free Market Systems
    • or ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics
    • BA 1320 Business in a Global World
    • or ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics
• Business Core Courses: 24 semester credit hours
  • BCOM 1300 Introduction to Professionalism and Communication in Business
  • or BCOM 3300 Professionalism and Communication in Business
  • BCOM 4300 Managing Communications in Business
  • IMS 3310 International Business
  • FIN 3320 Business Finance
  • OPRE 3310 Operations Management
  • ITSS 3300 Information Technology for Business
  • OBHR 3330 Introduction to Human Resource Management
  • or OBHR 3310 Organizational Behavior
  • MKT 3300 Principles of Marketing

Elective Requirements

• A zero semester credit hour practicum experience is required:
  • HMGT 4090 Healthcare Management Internship
• A zero semester credit hour community engagement experience is required:
  • BA 4095 Social Sector Engagement and Community Outreach Practicum
• Healthcare Management Core Courses: 18 semester credit hours
  • HMGT 3301 Introduction to Healthcare Management
  • HMGT 3310 Healthcare Regulatory Environment
  • HMGT 3311 Healthcare Accounting
  • HMGT 3320 Complex and Dynamic Healthcare Environment
  • HMGT 4321 Introduction to Healthcare Information Systems
  • HMGT 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Healthcare Management
  • or BPS 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Business
  • or ENTP 4395 Capstone Senior Project - Entrepreneurship
• Biology (3 semester credit hours):
  • BIOL 4380 Cell and Molecular Biology Laboratory
  • or BIOL 3V96 Undergraduate Research in Molecular and Cell Biology
  • or BIOL 4391 Senior Research in Molecular and Cell Biology
  • or BIOL 4399 Senior Honors Research for Thesis in Molecular and Cell Biology

Additional Requirements

All students must complete at least 51 semester credit hours of upper-division courses to graduate.