@BiffBrown 301 should always exist, but will become an elective for chemistry majors who declare this year and later I think. To tell the truth, I have never been a fan of it or the bio version.
I get this feeling that I would strongly recommend either the new 204 class for those who have time (before the MCAT) or an upper division course like chem 302 before the MCAT. 301 is a little bland. Focuses almost too much on metabolic pathways which is good for the discreets on the MCAT for pre-meds, but not particularly good for any passage based problems (the more enzyme kinetics and experimental bchem you know, the more likely passages will go your way. You can learn metabolic pathways on your own tbh). Hopefully that macromolecules or an upper division course will focus more on either a) math or b) experimentation in the fields or c) both. Lutz has apparently started doing a “handwaving” integration of primary literature into his course, but students are not held accountable because his exams are still mostly memorization and problem types that have little to do with structural biology, experimental biochem, or bio-organic. Howvever, he now does more active learning and “problem solving” (I’ll take the quotes off if a friend shows me evidence) during his class sessions so that can be good (certainly better than when the guy in the bio version attempts it).
Admittedly, Lutz can teach very well, I just find his faith in undergraduates to handle higher level problem solving disappointing. It doesn’t make much sense considering how much faith people like some of the general chemistry and organic instructors have.
It is also a missed opportunity to truly prep. people for chem 302 which is a straight up chemical biology class that focuses on research (they even have to write an NSF style mini-proposal).