2024-2025 Academic Catalog
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Welcome to Virginia Tech! We are excited that you are here planning your time as a Hokie.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Common Courses | ||
| ENGR/COS 2164 | Introduction to Scieneering | 1 |
| Select one of the following: | 2 | |
| Engineering Fundamentals for Scientists (For Life Science majors) 1 | ||
| Cell and Molecular Biology for Engineers (For Physical Science or Engineering majors) 2 | ||
| ENGR/COS 4064 | Scieneering Capstone | 3 |
| Subtotal | 6 | |
| Elective Courses | ||
| In-Discipline Courses | ||
| Select 9 credit hours from the list based on a student's major | 9 | |
| Out-Of-Discipline Courses | ||
| Select 3 credit hours from the list based on a student's major | 3 | |
| Subtotal | 12 | |
| Total Credits | 18 | |
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Life Sciences Majors 1 | ||
| ALS 3104 | Animal Breeding and Genetics | 3 |
| ALS 3304 | Physiology of Reproduction | 3 |
| ALS/BIOL 4554 | Neurochemical Regulation | 3 |
| ALS/WATR 4614 | Watershed Assessment, Management, and Policy | 2 |
| BCHM 3114 | Biochemistry for Biotechnology and the Life Sciences | 3 |
| BCHM 4115 | General Biochemistry | 4 |
| BCHM 4116 | General Biochemistry | 3 |
| BCHM 4784 | Applications in Molecular Life Science | 3 |
| BIOL 3404 | Introductory Animal Physiology | 3 |
| BIOL 3774 | Molecular Biology | 3 |
| BIOL 4014 | Environmental Toxicology | 2 |
| BIOL 4104 | Developmental Biology | 3 |
| BIOL 4114 | Global Change Ecology | 3 |
| BIOL 4164 | Environmental Microbiology | 3 |
| BIOL 4564 | Infectious Disease Ecology | 3 |
| BIOL 4624 | Microbial Genetics | 3 |
| BIOL 4664 | Virology | 3 |
| BIOL 4674 | Pathogenic Bacteriology | 3 |
| BIOL 4704 | Immunology | 3 |
| BIOL 4734 | Inflammation Biology | 3 |
| BIOL 4824 | Bioinformatics Methods | 3 |
| BIOL 4844 | Proteomics and Biological Mass Spectrometry | 3 |
| BIOL 4854 | Cytogenetics | 3 |
| BIOL 4874 | Cancer Biology | 3 |
| BIOL 4884 | Cell Biology | 3 |
| CHEM/ENSC 4734 | Environmental Soil Chemistry | 3 |
| CSES/ENSC 4444 | Managed Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services, and Sustainability | 3 |
| CSES 4644 | Land-based Systems for Waste Treatment | 3 |
| CSES 4854 | Wetland Soils and Mitigation | 3 |
| NANO 1015 & NANO 1016 | Introduction to Nanoscience: From Atoms to Applications and Introduction to Nanoscience | 6 |
| FST 4504 | Food Chemistry | 3 |
| FST 4634 | Epidemiology Foodborne Disease | 3 |
| HNFE 3804 | Exercise Physiology | 3 |
| HNFE 4844 | Exercise and Neuromuscular Performance | 3 |
| PPWS 4114 | Microbial Forensics and Biosecurity | 3 |
| PSYC 3024 | Human Behaviors and Natural Environments | 3 |
| PSYC 4074 | Sensation and Perception | 3 |
| PSYC 4114 | Cognitive Psychology | 3 |
| SYSB 3035 | Genomics and Bioinformatics | 4 |
| SYSB 3115 | Network Dynamics and Cell Physiology | 4 |
| SYSB 3116 | Network Dynamics and Cell Physiology | 4 |
| Engineering/Physical Sciences Majors 2 | ||
| BSE 3154 | Thermodynamics of Biological Systems | 3 |
| BSE 3504 | Transport Processes in Biological Systems | 3 |
| BSE 3524 | Unit Operations in Biological Systems Engineering | 3 |
| BSE 4524 | Biological Process Plant Design | 3 |
| BSE/CHE 4544 | Protein Separation Engineering | 3 |
| BSE 4604 | Food Process Engineering | 3 |
| CEE 3104 | Introduction to Environmental Engineering | 3 |
| CEE 3684 | Civil Engineering Materials | 4 |
| CEE 4104 | Water and Wastewater Treatment Design | 3 |
| CEE 4114 | Fundamentals of Public Health Engineering | 3 |
| CEE 4174 | Solid and Hazardous Waste Management | 3 |
| CEE 4614 | Concrete Materials | 3 |
| CHE 3134 | Separation Processes | 3 |
| CHE 3144 | Mass Transfer | 3 |
| CHE 4014 | Chemical Engineering Laboratory | 5 |
| CHE 4104 | Process Materials | 3 |
| CHE 4185 | Process and Plant Design | 4 |
| CHE 4186 | Process and Plant Design | 4 |
| CHE 4214 | Introduction to Polymer Materials | 3 |
| CHE 4334 | Introduction to Colloidal and Interfacial Science | 3 |
| CHE/BSE 4544 | Protein Separation Engineering | 3 |
| CHEM 4514 | Green Chemistry | 3 |
| CHEM 4534 | Organic Chemistry of Polymers | 3 |
| CHEM 4554 | Drug Chemistry | 3 |
| CSES 4644 | Land-based Systems for Waste Treatment | 3 |
| ECE 2164/AOE 2664 | Exploration of the Space Environment | 3 |
| ECE 4154 | Space Weather: The Solar Wind and Magnetosphere | 3 |
| ECE 4164 | Introduction to Global Positioning System (GPS) Theory and Design | 4 |
| ECE 4364 | Alternate Energy for Climate Sustainability | 3 |
| ECON 4014 | Environmental Economics | 3 |
| ENGR 3124 | Introduction to Green Engineering | 3 |
| ENGR 4134 | Environmental Life Cycle Assessment | 3 |
| ENSC 3604 | Fundamentals of Environmental Science | 3 |
| ENSC 3634 | Physics of Pollution | 3 |
| ENSC 3644 | Plant Materials for Environmental Restoration | 3 |
| ENSC/BIOL 4164 | Environmental Microbiology | 3 |
| ENSC/CSES 4444 | Managed Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services, and Sustainability | 3 |
| ENSC/CHEM 4734 | Environmental Soil Chemistry | 3 |
| ENSC 4774 | Reclamation of Drastically Disturbed Lands | 3 |
| ESM 4105 | Engineering Analysis of Physiologic Systems | 3 |
| ESM 4106 | Engineering Analysis of Physiologic Systems | 3 |
| ESM 4204 | Musculoskeletal Biomechanics 3 | 3 |
| ESM 4224 | Biodynamics and Control | 3 |
| ESM 4234 | Mechanics of Biological Systems | 3 |
| ESM 4304 | Hemodynamics | 3 |
| GEOS 3014 | Environmental Geosciences | 3 |
| GEOS 3034 | Oceanography | 3 |
| GEOS 3104 | Elementary Geophysics | 3 |
| GEOS 3404 | Elements of Structural Geology | 3 |
| GEOS 3504/MSE 3104 | Mineralogy (with lab) | 3 |
| GEOS 3604 | Paleontology (with lab) | 3 |
| GEOS 3614/CSES 3114 | Soils (with lab) | 3 |
| GEOS/GEOG 4084 | Modeling with Geographic Information Systems | 3 |
| GEOS 4634 | Environmental Geochemistry | 3 |
| GEOS 4804 | Groundwater Hydrology | 3 |
| ISE 3614 | Human Factors Engineering and Ergonomics | 3 |
| ISE 3624 | Industrial Ergonomics | 3 |
| ISE 4015 | Management Systems Theory, Applications, and Design | 3 |
| ISE 4304 | Global Issues in Industrial Management | 3 |
| ISE 4624 | Physical Work Assessment | 3 |
| ISE 4644 | Risk and Hazard Control | 3 |
| MATH 4564 | Operational Methods for Engineers | 3 |
| MSE 2044 | Fundamentals of Materials Engineering | 4 |
| MSE 2054 | Fundamentals of Materials Science | 3 |
| MSE 3104/GEOS 3504 | Mineralogy | 3 |
| MSE 3134 | Crystallography and Crystal Structures | 3 |
| MSE 3204 | Fundamentals of Electronic Materials | 3 |
| MSE 3304 | Physical Metallurgy | 3 |
| MSE 4164 | Principles of Materials Corrosion | 3 |
| MSE 4304 | Metals and Alloys | 3 |
| MSE 4414 | Physical Ceramics | 3 |
| MSE 4574 | Biomaterials | 3 |
| MSE 4584 | Biomimetic Materials | 3 |
| NANO 1015 & NANO 1016 | Introduction to Nanoscience: From Atoms to Applications and Introduction to Nanoscience | 6 |
| NANO 3015 | Nanoscale Synthesis, Fabrication, and Characterization | 4 |
| NANO 3016 | Nanoscale Synthesis, Fabrication, and Characterization | 4 |
| NANO 4124 | Advanced Nanomaterials and Devices | 3 |
| NEUR 3044 | Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | 3 |
| NEUR 3084 | Cognitive Neuroscience | 3 |
| NEUR 3144 | Mechanisms of Learning and Memory | 3 |
| NEUR 3554 | Neuroscience Research and Practical Experience | 3 |
| NEUR 3914 | Neuroscience of Drug Addiction | 3 |
| NEUR 4034 | Diseases of the Nervous System | 3 |
| NEUR 4454 | Neuroeconomics | 3 |
| NEUR 4814 | Nutritional Neuroscience | 3 |
| PHYS 4574 | Nanotechnology | 3 |
| PHYS 4714 | Introduction to Biophysics | 3 |
| SBIO 3004 | Sustainable Nature-Based Enterprises | 3 |
| SBIO 3444 | Sustainable Biomaterials and Bioenergy | 3 |
| SBIO 3454 | Society, Sustainability Biomaterials and Energy | 3 |
| SBIO 3554 | Sustainable Biomaterials Enterprises | 3 |
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| A. Life Sciences Majors 1 | ||
| BIOL 4824 | Bioinformatics Methods | 3 |
| BSE 3154 | Thermodynamics of Biological Systems | 3 |
| CS 1044 | Introduction to Programming in C | 3 |
| CS 1054 | Introduction to Programming in Java | 3 |
| ECE 2164/AOE 2664 | Exploration of the Space Environment | 3 |
| ENGE 1354 | Introduction to Spatial Visualization | 1 |
| ENGR 1814 | 3 | |
| ISE 2404 | Deterministic Operations Research I | 3 |
| MATH 2214 | Introduction to Differential Equations 4 | 3 |
| MATH 3214 | Calculus of Several Variables | 3 |
| MSE 2034 | Elements of Materials Engineering | 3 |
| STAT 3615 | Biological Statistics | 3 |
| STAT 3616 | Biological Statistics | 3 |
| STAT 4204 | Experimental Designs | 3 |
| STAT 4214 | Methods of Regression Analysis | 3 |
| B. Engineering/Physical Sciences Majors 3 | ||
| ALS 2304 | Comparative Animal Physiology and Anatomy | 4 |
| ALS/BIOL 2404 | Biotechnology in A Global Society | 3 |
| BCHM 2024 | Concepts of Biochemistry | 3 |
| BCHM 3114 | Biochemistry for Biotechnology and the Life Sciences | 3 |
| BIOL 2004 | Genetics | 3 |
| BIOL/HORT 2304 | Plant Biology | 3 |
| BIOL 2504 | General Zoology | 3 |
| BIOL 2604 | General Microbiology | 3 |
| BIOL 2804 | Ecology | 3 |
| NANO 1015 & NANO 1016 | Introduction to Nanoscience: From Atoms to Applications and Introduction to Nanoscience | 6 |
| CSES 4644 | Land-based Systems for Waste Treatment | 3 |
| ECON 4014 | Environmental Economics | 3 |
| ENSC 3604 | Fundamentals of Environmental Science | 3 |
| GEOS 3014 | Environmental Geosciences | 3 |
| GEOS 3034 | Oceanography | 3 |
| GEOS 3104 | Elementary Geophysics | 3 |
| GEOS 3404 | Elements of Structural Geology | 3 |
| GEOS/CSES 3614 | Soils (with lab) | 3 |
| GEOS/GEOG 4084 | Modeling with Geographic Information Systems | 3 |
| GEOS 4634 | Environmental Geochemistry | 3 |
| GEOS 4804 | Groundwater Hydrology | 3 |
| HNFE 3804 | Exercise Physiology | 3 |
| PHYS 4574 | Nanotechnology | 3 |
| PHYS 4714 | Introduction to Biophysics | 3 |
| PPWS 2104 | Plants, Genes, and People | 3 |
Life Science majors include all CALS and CNRE majors not listed in Physical Sciences, as well as the COS majors of Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Psychology, and Systems Biology.
Will not count towards the IES minor for students majoring in Chemistry, Geological Sciences, Mathematics, Physics or Statistics.
Physical Sciences include Chemistry, Economics, Environmental Sciences, Geosciences, Mathematics, Nanoscience, Neuroscience, Physics and Statistics and Sustainable Biomaterials.
Will not count towards the IES minor for students majoring in Chemistry, Geological Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, or Statistics.
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