Biochemistry Courses

I teach two biochemistry courses at the University of Arizona in fully online and hybrid (flipped classroom) modalities. One course is Foundations in Biochemistry (BIOC 384) and the other Metabolic Biochemistry (BIOC 385).

If you are looking for an accredited 3 unit Online Biochemistry course from a top tier university that you can use to meet admissions requirements for professional school admissions or for transfer credit, you should consider enrolling as a non-degree seeking online UArizona student in the Fall, Winter, Spring, or Summer sessions.

Below are two videos in which I describe my classroom approach to teaching biochemistry using the chapter content, assessments, and case studies in Miesfeld’s Biochemistry.

Professor Miesfeld describes Student Engagement
Professor Miesfeld describes Everyday BioChem

The lecture topic lists for the BIOC 384/385 courses are linked below. Each course can be taken independently in any order (BIOC 384 is not the prerequisite for BIOC 385). Most students take BIOC 384 as a one semester introductory biochemistry course to meet degree requirements, whereas pre-med students often take both courses and earn a minor in biochemistry.

BIOC 384 “Foundations in Biochemistry”

BIOC 385 “Metabolic Biochemistry”

Below are links to representative Lecture Videos that I use in my biochemistry classes. These videos were produced in the University of Arizona production studios in Summer/Fall of 2025 and are in the public domain so anyone can view them.

BIOC 384 – Representative Lecture Videos

biomolecular structure and function
coupled reactions in metabolism
amino acid functional groups
regulation of O2 Binding to hemoglobin
Enzyme-Mediated Chemical Reactions
Regulation of Metabolic flux in glycolysis

BIOC 385 – Representative Lecture Videos

Glycoconjugates and aBO Blood types
mitochondrial Fatty Acid Oxidation
hormonal control of energy balance
biochemistry of dna replication
Eukaryotic RNA Processing
Regulation of the lac operon