| Natural Sciences Major Requirements - complete 18.0 units |
| Course | Description | Units | Completed | In Progress | Comments |
|---|
| Complete any combination totaling at least 18.0 units from the following: |
| Students must complete at least 18 units from the list below and course choices must include at least one course from | | | | |
| three different Science Area Disciplines which include Chemistry, Earth & Space Sciences, Life Sciences, Math, and Physics. | | | | |
Students may only count 1 course each from the following three groups toward the major requirements:
ANAT 1 or ANAT 40 or ANAT 58; MICRO 5 or MICRO 60; PHYSIO 1 or PHYSIO 58. | | | | |
| Area Discipline 1: Chemistry | | | | |
| CHEM 3A | General Chemistry Part 1: Lecture | 3.0 | | | |
| CHEM 3AL | General Chemistry Part 1: Lab | 2.0 | | | |
| CHEM 3B | General Chemistry Part 2 | 5.0 | | | |
| CHEM 8 | Introductory Organic Chemistry | 5.0 | | | |
| CHEM 12A | Organic Chemistry | 5.0 | | | |
| CHEM 12B | Organic Chemistry | 5.0 | | | |
| CHEM 42 | Introductory General Chemistry | 4.0 | | | |
| CHEM 60 | General, Organic and Biological Chemistry | 5.0 | | | |
| Area Discipline 2: Earth and Space Science | | | | |
| ASTR 3 | Stellar Astronomy | 3.0 | | | |
| ASTR 3L | Stellar Astronomy Laboratory | 1.0 | | | |
| ASTR 4 | Astronomy of the Solar System | 3.0 | | | |
| ASTR 4L | Solar System Astronomy Laboratory | 1.0 | | | |
| ASTR 12 | Astronomy Observational Lab | 1.0 | | | |
| ASTR 42 | Life in the Universe | 3.0 | | | |
| ENVS 8 | Introduction to Global Climate Change | 3.0 | | | |
| ENVS 12 | Introduction to Environmental Science | 3.0 | | | |
| GEOG 4 | Physical Geography | 3.0 | | | |
| GEOG 4L | Physical Geography Lab | 1.0 | | | |
| GEOG 10 | Introduction to Weather and Climate | 3.0 | | | |
| GEOG 10L | Weather and Climate Lab | 1.0 | | | |
| GEOL 1 | The Earth | 3.0 | | | |
| GEOL 1L | Geology Lab | 1.0 | | | |
| GEOL 11 | Geology of California | 3.0 | | | |
| GEOL 20 | Natural Disasters | 3.0 | | | |
| MTER 10 | Introduction to Weather and Climate | 3.0 | | | |
| MTER 10L | Weather and Climate Lab | 1.0 | | | |
| NRM 12 | Introduction to Environmental Conservation | 3.0 | | | |
| PHSC 21 | Introduction to Earth Science | 4.0 | | | |
| Area Discipline 3: Life Science | | | | |
| AGRI 20 | Introduction to Plant Science | 4.0 | | | |
| AGRI 60 | Soil & Plant Nutrition | 3.0 | | | |
| ANAT 1 | General Human Anatomy | 5.0 | | | |
| ANAT 40 | Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology | 4.0 | | | |
| ANAT 58 | Introduction to Human Anatomy | 3.0 | | | |
| ANSC 20 | Basic Animal Science | 3.0 | | | |
| ANTH 1 | Biological Anthropology | 3.0 | | | |
| ANTH 1L | Biological Anthropology Lab | 1.0 | | | |
| ANTH 19 | Forensic Anthropology | 3.0 | | | |
| BIO 2.1 | Fundamentals of Biology (Cell and Molecular) | 5.0 | | | |
| BIO 2.2 | Fundamentals of Biology (Evolution, Genetics, and Zoology) | 5.0 | | | |
| BIO 2.3 | Fundamentals of Biology (Botany and Ecology) | 5.0 | | | |
| BIO 10 | Introduction to Principles of Biology | 4.0 | | | |
| BIO 12 | Basic Concepts of Ecology | 3.0 | | | |
| BIO 13 | Human Biology | 3.0 | | | |
| BIO 14 | Current Issues in Biology | 3.0 | | | |
| BIO 16 | Introduction to Biology For Non-Majors | 4.0 | | | |
| BIO 20 | Human Genetics | 3.0 | | | |
| BIO 25 | Marine Biology | 4.0 | | | |
| BIO 27 | Biology of Marine Mammals | 3.0 | | | |
| BIO 31 | Tropical Biodiversity and Conservation | 2.0 | | | |
| BTNY 10 | Plant Biology | 4.0 | | | |
| BTNY 60 | Field Botany | 4.0 | | | |
| FDNT 10 | Elementary Nutrition | 3.0 | | | |
| MICR 5 | General Microbiology | 5.0 | | | |
| MICR 60 | Fundamentals of Microbiology | 4.0 | | | |
| PHYZ 1 | Human Physiology | 5.0 | | | |
| PHYZ 58 | Introduction to Human Physiology | 3.0 | | | |
| NRM 51 | Wildland Trees and Shrubs | 3.0 | | | |
| SUAG 50 | Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture | 3.0 | | | |
| Area Discipline 4: Mathematics | | | | |
| MATH 1A | Calculus, First Course | 5.0 | | | |
| MATH 1B | Calculus, Second Course | 5.0 | | | |
| MATH 4 | Discrete Mathematics | 4.0 | | | |
| MATH 9 | Finite Mathematics | 3.0 | | | |
| MATH 10 | Nature of Mathematics | 3.0 | | | |
| MATH 15 | Elementary Statistics | 4.0 | | | |
| MATH 16 | Business Calculus | 4.0 | | | |
| MATH 25 | Precalculus Algebra | 4.0 | | | |
| MATH 27 | Precalculus Algebra and Trigonometry | 6.0 | | | |
| MATH 58 | Precalculus Trigonometry | 3.0 | | | |
| MATH 74 | Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers - Number Systems | 4.0 | | | |
| PSYC 9 | Introduction to Behavioral Sciences Statistics | 3.0 | | | |
| Area Discipline 5: Physics | | | | |
| PHYS 1 | Introduction to Physics Problem Solving | 3.0 | | | |
| PHYS 11 | Conceptual Physics | 4.0 | | | |
| PHYS 20A | General Physics Part I | 4.0 | | | |
| PHYS 20B | General Physics Part II | 4.0 | | | |
| PHYS 40 | Classical Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers | 5.0 | | | |
| PHYS 41 | Waves, Optics, and Thermodynamics for Scientists & Engineers | 4.0 | | | |
| PHYS 42 | Electricity and Magnetism for Scientists and Engineers | 4.0 | | | |
| PHYS 43 | Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers | 3.0 | | | |