<p>The health sciences program at UCSC is brand new, but is on par with the other biological sciences here in terms of rigor. In my opinion, some of the major benefits of UCSC’s health sciences program are the 5 quarters of spanish required and the required senior internship.</p>
<p>Spanish is an extremely important language to know living in California. Doctors and nurses need to know how to communicate with all of their patients to effectively treat them. The senior internship gives you the opportunity to get real world experience and training – at the undergraduate level this is almost unheard of. UCSC is known for its undergraduate internship and research opportunities and the Health Sciences program takes full advantages of the university’s resources.</p>
<p>The biology program here at UCSC is getting stronger every year. Here’s a list of requirements for each major: <a href=“http://www.biology.ucsc.edu/ug/program/index.html[/url]”>http://www.biology.ucsc.edu/ug/program/index.html</a></p>
<p>Length of major ranges from reasonable to insane, majors from the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology department being the former and Neuroscience & Behavior being the latter.</p>
<p>A word of caution however, most of the majors including Health Sciences make the third quarter of Organic Chemistry optional, but most top grad schools REQUIRE a full year of O-chem. So if you plan on doing something with that major, don’t be lazy and take the extra quarter of O-chem.</p>
<p>Also, If you don’t place into calculus right away, don’t expect to graduate in 4 years – these majors are LONG.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>