Courses Required as Prerequisites
Course Number | Course | Semester Hours |
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BIOC:3110 or BIOC 3120 and BIOC:3130 (or equivalent) | Biochemistry | 3-8 s.h. |
| Organic Chemistry (2 semesters) | 6-8 s.h. |
| Fundamental Genetics | 3-4 s.h. |
| Introductory Physics, one year, college level | 6-8 s.h. |
| Calculus or Statistics, one year of either | 6-8 s.h. |
Courses Required for all Genetics Ph.D. Students
Course Number | Course | Semester Hours |
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GENE:6150 | Genetic Analysis of Biological Systems | 3 s.h. |
BISC:5201 | Fundamentals of Gene Expression | 1 s.h. |
BISC:5203 | Fundamentals of Dynamic Cell Processes | 1 s.h. |
BIOL:3172 | Evolution or | 4 s.h. |
BIOL:4333 | Genes and Development or | 3 s.h. |
GENE:7191 | Human Molecular Genetics | 3 s.h. |
GENE:6200 | Special Topics in Genetics (required of pre-comps students; counts toward 5 required seminar hours) | 1 s.h. |
GENE:6234 | Basic Biostatistical Methods in Genetics Apps | 1 s.h. |
GRAD:7270 | Principles of Scholarly Integrity | 1 s.h. |
Electives (8 s.h. chosen from the following) 2,3
Course Number | Course | Semester Hours |
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BIOL:3172 | Evolution | 4 s.h. |
BIOL:4333 | Genes and Development | 3 s.h. |
BIOL:3713 | Molecular Genetics | 4 s.h. |
BME:5320 | Bioinformatics Techniques | 3 s.h. |
ACB:6248 | Critical Thinking in Development | 1 s.h. |
MICR:6268 | Biology and Pathogenesis of Viruses | 2 s.h. |
BIOC:5243 | Biophysical Chemistry Module I | 1 s.h. |
GENE:7191 | Human Molecular Genetics | 3 s.h. |
GENE:6170 | Bioinformatics | 4 s.h. |
GENE:5173 | Computational Genomics | 3 s.h. |
NSCI:7235 | Neurobiology of Disease | 3 s.h. |
MCB:6215 | Transcription RNA | 1 s.h. |
MCB:6217 | Epigenetics, Cancer & Mouse Models | 1 s.h. |
MCB:6220 | Mechanisms of Cellular Organization | 3 s.h. |
MCB:6225 | Growth Factor Receptor Signaling | 1 s.h. |
MCB:6226 | Cell Cycle Control | 1 s.h. |
MCB:6227 | Cell Fate Decisions | 1 s.h. |
BISC:5206 | Biostatistics for Biomedical Research | 1 s.h. |
BISC:5205 | Practical Bioinformatics | 1 s.h. |
- 1 Must satisfy this requirement during the first year as a graduate student. In exceptional cases, credit will be allowed at the discretion of the Graduate Affairs Committee for an equivalent advanced course taken previously.
- 2 Must be taken as a graduate student.
- 3 The same course cannot be used to satisfy a requirement in part B and the elective requirement in part C.
- 4 This course is recommended as a refresher and will not count toward the statistics requirement.
- 5 For purposes of this requirement, the same seminar course(s) cannot be repeated if taught by the same instructor(s) without special permission from the Curriculum Committee. Seminar course offerings are quire dymanic, so additional courses may be included each year at the discrection of the Curriculum Committee. Other seminar courses may be used to satisfy the seminar requirement when approved on a year-by-year basis by the Curriculum Committee. The Speacial Topics in Genetics course (GENE:6200/127:200) may be repeated multiple times provided the topics differs from previous times the course was taken.
- 6 This course (BISC:5265) is taken by students entering the program through the Biosciences program. A maximum of 2 sh of this course will count toward the seminar requirement.
- 7 This course (BME:5020) will only count once toward the seminar requirement.
Seminars (5 s.h. chosen from the following) 2, 5
Course Number | Course | Semester Hours |
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ACB:6237 | Critical Thinking in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 1 s.h. |
ACB:6238 | Critical Thinking in Genetics | 1 s.h. |
ACB:6239 | Critical Thinking in Cell Biology | 1 s.h. |
BIOL:5117 | Topics in Molecular Genetics | 1 -2 s.h. |
BIOL:5127 | Topics in Cell and Development | 1 - 2 s.h. |
BIOL:6118 | Seminar in Writing in the Natural Sciences | 2 s.h. |
BISC:5265 | Biosciences Critical Thinking and Communication | 2 s.h. |
BME:5020 | Seminar in Bioinformatics | 1 s.h. |
GENE:6200 | Special Topics in Genetics (required of pre-comps students) | 1 s.h. |
Ethics Workshop (participation in this course is spread over two years)
Course Number | Course | Semester Hours |
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GRAD:7270 | Principles of Scholarly Integrity Students will typically register for the Principles of Scholarly Integrity course in their first year. However, the course is set up so that it takes about 2 years to complete. There will be two workshops scheduled per semester. | 1 s.h. |
ESL Requirement for Foreign Students
Effective with students entering Fall 1997, all foreign students for which an English proficiency evaluation is required must pass to the "B" level on the "University Request for Evaluation for TA Certification" form by the end of their 2nd year. If the student does not, they will be considered to be making insufficient progress and can be terminated. They will need to petition to the Executive Committee to continue, but there will be no guarantee that they will be allowed to do so.