Study Abroad

University of East Anglia

*Students who have plans to go to medical school or graduate school should NOT take UEA BIO 4013Y.  This is because such students need an in-depth coverage of this material to be ready for the MCATs or GREs, as well as for coursework that would be completed during medical or graduate school.  Such students should take CHEM 342 at Dickinson during Spring of Junior or Senior year.  Taking UEA BIO 4013Y should be adequate for a student not interested in pursing graduate study in cell/molecular biology or biochemistry, or not planning to attend medical/vet/dental school, after Dickinson.

Organic Chemistry Abroad: Students who want to take Organic Chemistry (CHEM 241 and 242) abroad must go for the full year and enroll in CHE-4101Y (Students will also need to take CHE-4001Y, a lab course, to get 241/242 credit). The University of East Anglia does not offer a suitable course as a substitute for just Organic I (Chemistry 241) at Dickinson.  As a consequence: All science and pre-health majors need to take Organic I and II either before they go abroad, during the summer, or study abroad at UEA the full year. The University of East Anglia offers chemistry courses in clusters and it doesn't have a single course that covers the material as we do at Dickinson (or at most other universities in the U.S.) The course taught at UEA is very different in organization from the standard coverage at all US colleges and universities, including Dickinson. We don't recommend students wishing to further study organic chemistry in graduate school to take the organic sequence abroad.