Chemistry Minor
For all students entering UC Santa Cruz in fall 2014 and later, all courses used to satisfy degree requirements in the chemistry and biochemistry minor must be taken for a letter grade.
For assistance please contact chemistry advising at chemistryadvising@ucsc.edu or visit our department website.
Course Requirements
Lower-Division Courses
Chemistry
Calculus
One of the following options
Plus one of the following options
Physics
| PHYS6A | Introductory Physics I | 5 |
| PHYS6L | Introductory Physics Laboratory | 1 |
| PHYS6B | Introductory Physics II | 5 |
| PHYS6M | Introductory Physics Laboratory | 1 |
| PHYS6C | Introductory Physics III | 5 |
| PHYS6N | Introductory Physics Laboratory | 1 |
| OR | |
| PHYS5A | Introduction to Physics I | 5 |
| PHYS5L | Introduction to Physics Laboratory | 1 |
| PHYS5B | Introduction to Physics II | 5 |
| PHYS5M | Introduction to Physics Laboratory | 1 |
| PHYS5C | Introduction to Physics III | 5 |
| PHYS5M | Introduction to Physics Laboratory | 1 |
Upper-Division Courses
| CHEM110 | Intermediate Organic Chemistry with Emphasis on Synthesis and Analytical Methods | 5 |
| CHEM110L | Intermediate Organic Chemistry Laboratory | 2 |
| CHEM163A | Quantum Mechanics and Basic Spectroscopy | 5 |
| CHEM163B | Chemical Thermodynamics | 5 |
Plus two chemistry upper-division electives. The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry may approve appropriate substitutions for one of the upper-division electives from other departments to satisfy this requirement as long as the credits are not used to satisfy minimum credits of any other major.