Curriculum
Current Listing of Graduate Courses Relevent to the IB&B Program:
| Molecular Bioscience & Biotechnology | |
| BY510 Developmental Biology (3 cr) | |
| BY511 Molecular Biotechnology (3 cr) | |
| BY526 Introduction to Biophysics (3 cr) | |
| BY612 Molecular Biology Laboratory (4 cr) | |
| BY650 Biochemistry I (3 cr) | |
| BY651 Biochemistry II (3 cr) | |
| BY652 Pharmacology (3 cr) | |
| BY670 Biochemistry & Biotechnology Laboratory (3 cr) | |
| BY680 Advanced Cell Biology (3 cr) | |
| BY682 Molecular Genetics (3 cr) | |
| CM520 Separations and Electrochemistry (3 cr) | |
| CM530 Colloid and Interfaces (3 cr) | |
| CM544 Medicinal Chemistry (3 cr) | |
| CM553 Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Biomaterials (3 cr) | |
| CM562 Physical Chemistry for Life Sciences (3 cr) | |
| CM563 Protein Chemistry & Proteomics (3 cr) | |
| CM564 Physical Biochemistry (3 cr) | |
| CM565 Biomimetic Nanotechnology (3 cr) | |
| CM566 Bioelectronics & Bionanotechology (3 cr) | |
| CH465 Biochemical Engineering (3 cr) | |
| ES552 Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering Applications (3 cr) | |
| Biomedical Sciences & Neuroscience | |
| BY516 Immunobiology (3 cr) | |
| BY518 Principles of Toxiciology and Epidemiology (3 cr) | |
| BY520 Microbiology (3 cr) | |
| BY522 Microbiology Laboratory (1 cr) | |
| BY540 Introduction to Biomedical Rehabilitation Engineering & Science (3 cr) | |
| BY554 Physiological Psychology (3 cr) | |
| BY558 Animal Learning and Cognition (3 cr) | |
| BY560 Molecular Physiology (3 cr) | |
| BY652 Pharmacology (3 cr) | |
| BY655 Cell and Molecular Biology of Cancer (3 cr) | |
| BY658 Cognitive Neuroscience (3 cr) | |
| BY660 Neurobiology (3 cr) | |
| ME380 Special Topics: Biomechanics (3 cr) | |
| Computational Biology & Bioinformatics | |
| BY514 Bioinformatics (4 cr) | |
| BY659 Systems and Biology (3 cr) | |
| CS511 Foundations of Computer Science (3 cr) | |
| ES505 Design of Experiments and Analysis of Data (3 cr) | |
| MA501 Advanced Engineering Mathematics I (3 cr) | |
| MA502 Advanced Engineering Mathematics II (3 cr) | |
| MA570 Fundamentals of Scientific Computation (3 cr) | |
| MA571 Numerical Solution of Differential Equations (3 cr) | |
| MA580 Introduction to Monte Carlo Simulation (3 cr) | |
| STAT582 Mathematical Statistics (3 cr) | |
| STAT584 Advanced Applied Statistics (3 cr) | |
| Ecology, Evolution, and the Environment | |
| BY525 Biological Systems & Environmental Change (3 cr) | |
| BY528 Conservation Biology (3 cr) | |
| BY531 Limnology (4 cr) | |
| BY620 Evolution (3 cr) | |
| ES533 Human Exposure Analysis (3 cr) | |
| ES534 Air Pollution Control (3 cr) | |
| CE575 Coastal Engineering (3 cr) | |
| CE577 Atmospheric Chemistry (3 cr) | |
| CE579 Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes (3 cr) | |
| CE580 Environmental Chemistry (3 cr) | |
| CE583 Modeling Natural Aquatic Systems (3 cr) | |
| CE682 Environmental Biological Chemistry (3 cr) | |
| CH509 Receptor Modeling in Environmental Chemistry (S, 3 cr) | |
| IH550 Environmental, Health & Safety Systems Analysis (3 cr) | |
| IH581 Advanced Topics in Environmental & Occupational Health (3 cr) | |
| Biology, Society, and Bioethics | |
| BY567 Current Topics in Biology and Medicine (3 cr) | |
| HIST520 Medicine and Society in America (3 cr) | |
| POL580 The Law and Bioethics (3 cr) | |
| General Courses | |
| BY595 Graduate Teaching Assistantship in Bioscience (1-3 cr) | |
| BY600 Directed Study in Bioscience (1-4 cr) | |
| BY622 Graduate Seminar (1 cr) | |
| BY900 Thesis, Dissertation, or Special Project (1-10 cr) | |
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Curriculum for PhD Degree (PhD students need a minimum of 90 credits total to |
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| Required Core Graduate Lecture Courses (6 cr): | |
| BY682 Molecular Genetics (3 cr) | |
| BY680 Advanced Cell Biology (3 cr) | |
| Required Graduate Laboratory Course (3 or 4 cr): | |
| Choose 1: | |
| BY612 Molecular Biology Laboratory (4 cr) | |
| BY670 Biochemistry & Biotechnology Laboratory (3 cr) | |
| Specialization Elective Credits (6 cr): | |
| Choose 2 courses (3 cr each) from one of the specialization categories | |
| Free Elective Credits (3 cr): | |
| Choose 1 course (3 cr) from any specialization category | |
| Computational Biology Requirement (3 cr): | |
| Choose 1 course from this category | |
| Biology, Society, & Bioethics Requirement (3 cr): | |
| Choose 1 course from this category | |
| Seminar Requirement (6 cr): | |
| BY622 Graduate Seminar (6 cr taken over 6 semesters) | |
| Thesis Research Credits (59 cr minimum): | |
| BY900 Thesis Research Project (1-10 cr per semester) | |
Example Eight-Semester Plan for IB&B PhD Degree (90 cr total minimum):
| FALL 1 | SPRING 1 | ||
| COURSE TITLE | CREDITS | COURSE TITLE | CREDITS |
| BY511 Molecular Biotechnology | 3 | BY512 Advanced Cell Biology | 3 |
| BY612 Molecular Biology Lab | 4 | Specialization Elective | 3 |
| Biology, Society, & Bioethics Elective | 3 | Computational Biology Elective | 3 |
| BY622 Biology Seminar | 1 | BY622 Biology Seminar | 1 |
| Total Credits | 11 | Total Credits | 10 |
| FALL 2 | SPRING 2 | ||
| COURSE TITLE | CREDITS | COURSE TITLE | CREDITS |
| Specialization Elective | 3 | Free Elective | 3 |
| BY622 Biology Seminar | 1 | BY622 Biology Seminar | 1 |
| BY900 Thesis Research | 10 | BY900 Thesis Research | 10 |
| Total Credits | 14 | Total Credits | 14 |
| FALL 3 | SPRING 3 | ||
| COURSE TITLE | CREDITS | COURSE TITLE | CREDITS |
| BY622 Biology Seminar | 1 | BY622 Biology Seminar | 1 |
| BY900 Thesis Research | 10 | BY900 Thesis Research | 10 |
| Total Credits | 11 | Total Credits | 11 |
| FALL 4 | SPRING 4 | ||
| COURSE TITLE | CREDITS | COURSE TITLE | CREDITS |
| BY900 Thesis Research | 10 | BY900 Thesis Research | 9 |
| Total Credits | 10 | Total Credits | 9 |








