IGS COURSE REQUIREMENTS
All courses should be taken for a grade: A-F
1. An introductory biology course
(i.e. BIOL/MBB 181 - Principles of Biology I, or an approved alternative)
2. One introductory computer science course
(e.g., COMP 112 - Introduction to Programming, COMP 114 -How to Talk to Machines, COMP 115 - How to Design Programs, COMP 211 - Computer Science I, COMP 113/BIOL/MB&B 265 - Bioinformatics Programming, BIOL 270 - Systems Biology with Programming or approved alternatives)
3a. One advanced computer science course
(e.g., COMP 212 - Computer Science II, COMP 331 – Computer Structure and Operation, COMP 312 - Algorithms and Complexity or an approved alternative)
or 3b. Three 0.5-credit Quantitative Analysis Center courses
(e.g., QAC 150 – SQL and Databases, QAC 151 – Excel and VBA, QAC 154 — MATLAB, QAC 156 – R, QAC 157 – SAS, or QAC 158 – Stata or an approved alternative)
4. An upper-level bioinformatics course
(see table below for approved courses)
5. One course in each of two of the following categories (see table below)
Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology Structural Biology
Evolutionary Biology Applied Quantitative Reasoning
Bioethics & Philosophy of Biology
Approved Courses for Requirements 4 and 5
Category |
Topic |
Course Number |
Bioinformatics |
Bioinformatics Programming | COMP 113, 266 BIOL 265, 266 |
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Systems Biology with Programming | BIOL 270, 271 |
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Genomics Analysis | BIOL 310 |
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Molecular Modeling and Design | CHEM 396 |
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Biomedicinal Chemistry | CHEM 321 |
Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology |
Molecular Biology | MB&B 208 |
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Genetics and Genomics | BIOL/ MB&B 210 |
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Cell Biology | BIOL/MB&B 212 |
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Engineering Biology: Cells and Tissues | BIOL 267 |
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Cell Migration in Development and Disease | BIOL 322 |
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Advanced Laboratory in Molecular Biology and Genetics | MB&B 394 |
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Signal Transduction | MB&B 237 |
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Gene Regulation | MB&B 333 |
Evolutionary Biology |
Evolution | BIOL 214 or BIOL 215 |
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Microbial Genomics and Evolution | BIOL 217 |
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Issues in Development and Evolution | BIOL 340/540 |
Structural Biology |
Structural Biology Laboratory | MB&B 395 |
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Advanced Topics in Structural Biology | MB&B 316, 516 |
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Introduction to Biomolecular Structure | MB&B 325 |
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Molecular and Cellular Biophysics | CHEM 309 |
Bioethics & Philosophy of Biology |
Philosophy of Science | SISP 202 |
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Bioethics and the Animal/Human Boundary | SISP 260 |
Applied Quantitative Reasoning |
Statistics | MATH 132 |
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Applied Data Analysis | QAC 201 |
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Demystifying Data: Introductory Data Analysis and Modeling | BIOL 263 |
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Quantitative Methods for the Biol. and Env. Sciences | BIOL 320 |