Programme of B2
The second year curriculum for the Bachelor’s programme in Molecular Life Sciences is shown in the tables below.
Quarters 1 and 2 consist of compulsory courses. The specialization phase starts in quarter 3 (see second table), in which you choose combinations of courses that lead to your desired specialization in molecular life sciences. You can choose to specialize in a medical biological direction or in a bio-molecular direction.
The specialization phase specifically prepares you for either a medical biology masters programme or a molecular sciences masters programme.
| 1st Quarter: 12 EC |
2nd Quarter: 18 EC |
| NWI-MOL027 DNA-technology (3 EC) |
NWI-MOL032 Crystal Structure (3 EC) |
| NWI-MOL158 Biomolecules at work (6EC) | NWI-MOL152 DATA: Bioinformatics (3EC) |
| NWI-MOL161 Organic Chemistry 2 (3EC) | NWI-MOL122 Chemical Analysis 2 (3EC) |
| NWI-MOL172 Inorganic Chemistry in Biological Systems (3EC) | |
| NWI-MOL150 DATA: programming and statistics (6EC) | |
| NWI-MOL086 Academic skills | |
When choosing your combination of courses, make sure you check the admission criteria for your future master's programme. Even though both specialization trajectories are designed in such a way that you should not encounter problems.
These are the recommended courses in Q7 and Q8 of the MLS programme (in brackets the codes for relevant master specialisations are given):
| Chemical Specializations | Biological Specializations |
| NWI-MOL170 Panorama Science & Society 1 (6EC) | NWI-MOL170 Panorama Science & Society 1 (6EC) |
| NWI-MOL126 Synthesis Lab 1b (3EC) |
NWI-FCEM02B Writing about Science (3EC) OR |
| NWI-MOL054 Toxicology (6EC) | NWI-MOL167 Comparative Physiology (6EC)(HB/FG/NS) OR NWI-BB019B Immunology (6EC) (FG optionally in Y3, max 135 places) OR NWI-MOL054 Toxicology (6EC) |
| Chemical Specializations |
Biological Specializations |
| NWI-BB017C Advanced Molecular Biology (6EC) | NWI-BB017C Advanced Molecular Biology (6EC) (HB/FG) OR NWI-BB094 Neurons & Synapses (6EC) (NS) |
| Elective OR NWI-FFIL100 Philosophy I (3EC) |
Elective OR NWI-FFIL100 Philosophy I (3EC) |
| NWI-MOL163 Synthesis Lab 2 (6EC) | NWI-BB047C Medical Embryology (6EC) (HB/FG/NS) OR NWI-BB048B Endocrinology (6EC) (HB) OR NWI-BB087 Population and Evolutionary Biology (6EC) (FG) |
At some time during your second or third year you should take the writing about science course and a philosophy course:
Writing skills and Philosophy
- NWI-FCEM02B Writing about Science can be taken in any quarter but the second.
- NWI-FFIL101 Philosophy is scheduled in the first (Q1) and second (Q2) period
Q1: aimed at physics topics, in Dutch
Q2: aimed at molecular topics, in English - NWI-FFIL100 Philosophy is scheduled in the fourth period (Q4) and treats topics from biology, in English