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Made primarily for the pre-medical student, the department of Biochemical Sciences offers an well-rounded education in the physical and biological sciences. Since the Board of Tutors is chosen from the Harvard Medical School and its research units as well as from the College faculty, the scope of the advice given is not limited to the problems being investigated in Cambridge. General examinations are required at the end of the senior year for all concentrators and honors candidates, in addition, must write a thesis...
Since it was designed primarily for the pre-medical student, the Biochemical Sciences Department collects all the current literature on medical school requirements and how to fulfill them. Inasmuch as the department gives credit for all the pre-medical requirement subjects, the student can easily find room on his program for non-science courses. In general, the pre-medical student will find Biochemical Sciences well-adapted to his needs...
Largest of the science fields in numbers of students, the Biology Department offers an excellent preparation for both the pre-medical student and the pure biology enthusiast. For the honors student, Biology requires no thesis and no general examinations, though the interested student can take a half-course working on some research problem...
Biology is generally a convenient concentration for pre-medical students since courses like Biology 1 and 122 (Comparative Verterbrate Anatomy) are ordinarily an important part of the preparation for medical school. More than that, the department offers an excellent introduction to the kind of experimentation that the medical schools employ constantly; the student, for instance, can get a very thorough background in the technique of studying micro-organisms and laboratory animals...
...pre-medical students, the Biology Department's top flight faculty makes concentration here among the best pre-graduate Biology training in the country...