Curriculum

Courses Required as Prerequisites

Courses Required for all Genetics Ph.D. Students

Electives (8 s.h. chosen from the following) ^2,3

1. 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. ² Must be taken as a graduate student.
3. ³ The same course cannot be used to satisfy a requirement in part B and the elective requirement in part C.
4. ⁴ This course is recommended as a refresher and will not count toward the statistics requirement.
5. 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. 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. ⁷ This course (BME:5020) will only count once toward the seminar requirement.

Seminars (5 s.h. chosen from the following) ^{2, 5}

Ethics Workshop (participation in this course is spread over two years)

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.