Biotechnology transfer requirements: De Anza College → UC Santa Cruz

These are the lower-division Biotechnology courses UC Santa Cruz expects you to finish before you transfer, taken from the 2025–26 ASSIST agreement, and matched to the De Anza College courses that satisfy each one.

Also searched as: UCSC.

4UC Santa Cruz requirements
4have a De Anza College match
6offered this year

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Course-by-course articulation

UC Santa Cruz requirementDe Anza College course that satisfies it
CSE 20 Beginning Programming in PythonCIS 40or CIS 41A
BIOL 20A Cell and Molecular BiologyBIOL 6B
STAT 5 StatisticsSTAT C1000or STAT C1000Hor PSYC 15or SOC 15or MATH 217 + MATH 17or POLI 20
STAT 7 Statistical Methods for the Biological, Environmental, and Health SciencesSTAT C1000or STAT C1000Hor MATH 217 + MATH 17

Verify this list on ASSIST.org before you register: choose De Anza College as your sending institution, UC Santa Cruz as the receiving institution, and Biotechnology as the major. ASSIST is the only official source, and agreements change between catalog years.

Which of these you can actually take in 2025–26

Matched against the official De Anza College schedule for 2026 Fall and 2027 Winter. Seat status changes daily — the planner shows the live figures.

CourseTermCRNInstructorStatus
CIS 402026 Fall25935Yau LauClosed
CIS 402026 Fall26032Doug CaseClosed
CIS 402026 Fall24578Jennifer ParrishClosed
CIS 402026 Fall26035Mirsaeid AbolghasemiClosed
CIS 41A2026 Fall24090Mirsaeid AbolghasemiOpen
CIS 41A2026 Fall26033Mohammed AkhoirshidaClosed
CIS 41A2027 Winter37957Clare NguyenOpen
CIS 41A2027 Winter35651Mirsaeid AbolghasemiOpen
BIOL 6B2027 Winter38863Lianna WongOpen
BIOL 6B2027 Winter38864Lianna WongOpen
BIOL 6B2027 Winter00224Simon Kang'aOpen
BIOL 6B2027 Winter00225Simon Kang'aOpen
STAT C10002026 Fall28616Rani FischerWaitlist
STAT C10002026 Fall28620Jelena SeganClosed
STAT C10002026 Fall28623Vinh NguyenWaitlist
STAT C10002026 Fall28621Amanda LienWaitlist
PSYC 152026 Fall02162Mark HealyWaitlist
PSYC 152026 Fall26464Christopher OlsenClosed
PSYC 152027 Winter01886Mark HealyOpen
PSYC 152027 Winter36876STAFF, MOpen
SOC 152026 Fall02292Mark HealyOpen
SOC 152026 Fall26465Christopher OlsenClosed
SOC 152027 Winter01959Mark HealyOpen
SOC 152027 Winter36877STAFF, MOpen
ASSIST is the official source for UC articulation, but it tells you which courses count, not when they run or who teaches them. The planner puts both together and warns you about time conflicts.
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