Biotechnology transfer requirements: Foothill 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 Foothill College courses that satisfy each one.

Also searched as: UCSC.

5UC Santa Cruz requirements
5have a Foothill College match
6offered this year

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Course-by-course articulation

UC Santa Cruz requirementFoothill College course that satisfies it
BME 80H The Human GenomeBIOL 12
CSE 20 Beginning Programming in PythonC S 3A
BIOL 20A Cell and Molecular BiologyBIOL 1A
STAT 5 StatisticsPSYC 7or STAT C1000or SOC 7or MATH 217 + MATH 17
STAT 7 Statistical Methods for the Biological, Environmental, and Health SciencesMATH 217 + MATH 17or STAT C1000

Verify this list on ASSIST.org before you register: choose Foothill 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 Foothill College schedule for 2026 Fall and 2027 Winter. Seat status changes daily — the planner shows the live figures.

CourseTermCRNInstructorStatus
BIOL 122026 Fall20903Christopher DemarcoOpen
BIOL 122027 Winter31315Christopher DemarcoOpen
C S 3A2026 Fall20301Mike MurphyOpen
C S 3A2026 Fall20319Maneesh DhagatClosed
C S 3A2026 Fall20458Mike MurphyWaitlist
C S 3A2026 Fall20555Bita MazloomClosed
BIOL 1A2026 Fall20134Karen EricksonClosed
BIOL 1A2026 Fall20649Karen EricksonClosed
BIOL 1A2026 Fall21593Dadbeh RouhbakhshClosed
BIOL 1A2027 Winter30640Karen EricksonOpen
PSYC 72026 Fall20632Ben StefonikOpen
PSYC 72027 Winter30766Eta LinOpen
STAT C10002026 Fall21560Staff MWaitlist
STAT C10002026 Fall21491Staff MWaitlist
STAT C10002026 Fall21537Lucinda RobledoWaitlist
STAT C10002026 Fall21520Maria TomutiuWaitlist
SOC 72026 Fall20633Ben StefonikOpen
SOC 72027 Winter30767Eta LinOpen
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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