Futures in Healthcare is a year-long cluster. This cluster is ideal for pre-med and pre-health careers, and intended majors in Neuroscience, Molecular and Cell Biology, Integrative Biology, and Psychology. You will be enrolled in all courses for both semesters of your first year. Course descriptions for Spring 2027 are also available below.
NOTE: This cluster is currently full; a waitlist is available.
Course Information (Fall 2026)
ETHSTD 12 001: Historical and Contemporary Issues in Ethnic Studies, 4 Units
- This course may satisfy a major prerequisite for Comparative Studies.
- This course meets Historical Studies, L&S Breadth.
- Schedule: TR 2:00-3:30PM
MATH 10A 001: Methods of Mathematics: Calculus, Statistics, and Combinatorics, 4 Units
- This course may satisfy a major prerequisite for Cognitive Science, Psychology, Neuroscience, Chemistry, Environmental Earth Science, Marine Science, Integrative Biology, Molecular & Cell Biology.
- Math 10A is recommended for students interested in Integrative Biology, Life Sciences, and Molecular & Cell Biology. Prerequisites include Math 3 Precalculus or 3.5 years of high school mathematics. Visit “Choosing Your First Math Course at UC Berkeley” for more information.
- Schedule: MWF 12:00-1:00 PM; Discussion TR 8:00-9:30 AM
PSYCH 1 001: General Psychology, 3 Units
- This course may satisfy a major prerequisite for Psychology, Media Studies, and Interdisciplinary Studies Field.
- This course meets Social & Behavioral Sciences, L&S Breadth.
- Schedule: MF 2:00-3:00 PM; Discussion T 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Course Descriptions (Spring 2027)
- CHEM 1A: General Chemistry, 3 Units Stoichiometry of chemical reactions, quantum mechanical description of atoms, the elements and periodic table, chemical bonding, real and ideal gases, thermochemistry, introduction to thermodynamics and equilibrium, acid-base and solubility equilibria, introduction to oxidation-reduction reactions, introduction to chemical kinetics.
- CHEM 1AL: General Chemistry Laboratory, 2 Units An experimental approach to chemical sciences with emphasis on developing fundamental, reproducible laboratory technique and a goal of understanding and achieving precision and accuracy in laboratory experiments. Proper use of laboratory equipment and standard wet chemical methods are practiced. Areas of investigations include chemical equilibria, spectroscopy, nanotechnology, green chemistry, and thermochemistry. Completion of, or concurrent enrollment in 1A is required.
- SOCIOLOGY 1: 4 Units The past five hundred years have witnessed the rapid transformation of the earth’s biosphere, resulting in biodiversity loss, species extinction, deforestation, land-use change, and the concentration of greenhouse gas emissions impacting the stability of the earth system. This class examines the origins of these environmental crises by studying global transformations of environment and society since the fifteenth century, emphasizing the intensifying resource demands of imperial globalization, industrial capitalism, commodity frontiers, unfree labor, food systems, and postwar economic development. By ending in the late twentieth century, the course also situates the ideas and politics that have emerged to imagine new environmental futures.
- MATH 10B: Methods of Mathematics: Calculus, Statistics, and Combinatorics, 4 Units The sequence Math 10A, Math 10B is intended for majors in the life sciences. Elementary combinatorics and discrete and continuous probability theory. Representation of data, statistical models and testing. Sequences and applications of linear algebra.
