The Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology (NST) offers a minor in Toxicology. The course work for the minor addresses topics in the basic principles of toxicology and molecular toxicology as well as computational toxicology, pharmacology, and pesticide chemistry. The minor works best for students already pursuing a bioscience degree as a background in chemistry, organic chemistry, biology, and biochemistry is necessary to be prepared to do upper division work in this field.