| General Institute Requirements (GIRs) | Subjects |
| Science Requirement | 6 |
| Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Requirement | 8 |
| Restricted Electives in Science and Technology (REST) Requirement [can be satisfied by 6.042, 18.03, or 18.06 in the Departmental Program] | 2 |
| Laboratory Requirement [can be satisfied by 7.02 in the Departmental Program] | 1 |
| Total GIR Subjects Required for SB Degree | 17 |
| Communication Requirement | |
| The program includes a Communication
Requirement of 4 subjects: 2 subjects designated as Communication Intensive in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CI-H); and 2 subjects designated as Communication Intensive in the Major (CI-M). |
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| PLUS Departmental Program | Units |
| Subject names below are followed by credit units, and by prerequisites, if any (corequisites in italics). | |
| Required Subjects | 147-150 |
| Mathematics and Introductory | |
| 18.03 Differential Equations, 12, REST; Calculus
II (GIR) or 18.06 Linear Algebra, 12, REST; Calculus II (GIR) |
|
| 6.01 Introduction to EECS I, 12, 1/2 LAB; Physics II (GIR) | |
|
6.042J
Mathematics for Computer Science, 12, REST;
Calculus I (GIR) |
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| Chemistry | |
| 5.12
Organic Chemistry I, 12, REST;
Chemistry (GIR) |
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|
5.60
Thermodynamics and Kinetics, 12, REST;
Calculus II (GIR),
Chemistry (GIR) or 7.10J Physical Chemistry of Biomolecular Systems, 12; Calculus II (GIR), Chemistry (GIR), Physics I (GIR), Physics II (GIR) or 20.110J Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems, 12, REST; Calculus II (GIR), Chemistry (GIR) |
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| Introductory Laboratory | |
| 7.02J Introduction to Experimental Biology and Communication, 18, CI-M, LAB;
Biology (GIR) or 20.109 Laboratory Fundamentals in Biological Engineering, 15, LAB, CI-M; Biology (GIR), Chemistry (GIR), 6.00, 18.03, 20.110J |
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| Foundational Subjects | |
| Three Computer Science subjects: | |
| 6.005 Elements of Software Construction, 12; 6.01, 6.042J | |
| 6.006 Introduction to Algorithms, 12; 6.01, 6.042J* | |
|
6.046J
Design and Analysis of Algorithms, 12;
6.006* |
|
| Three Biological Science subjects: | |
| 7.03 Genetics, 12, REST; Biology (GIR) | |
| 7.06
Cell Biology, 12;
7.03,
7.05 |
|
| 7.05
General Biochemistry, 12, REST;
5.12* or 5.07J Biological Chemistry I, 12, REST; 5.12 |
|
| Restricted Electives | 24 |
| One subject in Computational Biology: | |
| 6.047 Computational Biology: Genomes, Networks, Evolution, 12; 6.006, 6.041, Biology (GIR)* | |
| 6.048 Computational Evolutionary Biology, 12; 6.047* | |
| 6.503 Foundations of Algorithms and Computational Techniques in Systems Biology, 12; 6.046J* | |
| 6.802 Computational Functional Genomics, 12; Biology (GIR), 6.041* | |
| 7.36 Foundations of Computational and Systems Biology, 12;
Biology (GIR)* |
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| One subject in Biology: | |
| 7.20J Human Physiology, 12; 7.05 | |
| 7.23 Immunology, 12; 7.03* | |
| 7.27 Principles of Human Disease, 12; 7.03, 7.05, 7.06 | |
| 7.28 Molecular Biology, 12; 7.03, 7.05 | |
| 7.33J
Evolutionary Biology: Concepts, Models, and Computation, 12;
7.03,
6.00* |
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| Advanced Undergraduate Project | 12 |
| 6.UAP and
6.UAT Undergraduate Advanced Project, 12; CI-M |
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| Departmental Program Units That Also Satisfy the GIRs | (36) |
| Unrestricted Electives | 48 |
| Total Units Beyond the GIRs Required for SB Degree | 195-198 |
| No subject can be counted both as part of the 17-subject GIRs and as part of the 198 units required beyond the GIRs. Every subject in the student's departmental program will count toward one or the other, but not both. | |
| Notes | |
| *Alternate prerequisites and corequisites are listed in the subject description. | |
For an explanation of
credit units, or hours, please refer to the online
help in the MIT Subject Listing & Schedule, http://student.mit.edu/catalog/index.cgi. |
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