Curriculum

Courses Required as Prerequisites

Course Number	Course	Semester Hours
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
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
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
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
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.

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