# Transfer Preparation Requirements

**Source**: https://admission.ucla.edu/apply/transfer/deciding-on-major/major-preparation-the-college/requirements-for-human-biology-society-ba
**Parent**: https://admission.ucla.edu/apply/transfer/deciding-on-major/major-preparation-the-college

## Major Preparation Requirements

### Required courses – at least five of the following

- One course in human evolution
- One year of biology with lab for the major (evolution, cellular)
- One course in statistics
- One semester of general chemistry

### Two or more courses from:

- Philosophy (contemporary moral issues, political philosophy, philosophy of science, or ethical theory)
- Introduction to gender studies
- Sociocultural anthropology
- Cultural geography
- Introduction to sociology
- Introduction to Chicana/Chicano studies (social structure & contemporary conditions)

See [life sciences majors](https://admission.ucla.edu/apply/transfer/deciding-on-major/major-preparation-the-college/requirements-for-life-sciences-majors) section for requirements for the B.S. degree in this subject.

## More Information

- [More information about this major](https://newstudents.ucla.edu/studyarea/?id=325)
- [Department homepage](https://socgen.ucla.edu/)

\* This major is highly selective. Demand for this major significantly exceeds space available.

\* Students are classified as Pre-Human Biology and Society until lower-division preparation courses are completed at UCLA.

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