Required courses include a complete introductory course in animal biology or general zoology and at least three upper-division-level courses in biology or zoology, one of which must be animal, human, or exercise physiology.*
*Note: Lower-division, combined anatomy-physiology courses will not satisfy this requirement.
**highly recommended
A complete series of introductory courses in chemistry followed by an upper-level course in introductory biochemistry.
*A survey course in organic/ biochemistry will not satisfy this requirement.