Elective Courses

BIOC 124 - Critical Thinking and Scientific Writing 

• Winter '24 (recommended pre-qualifying exam)

BIOL 127 - Biostatistics

• Winter '24

BIOL 128 - Biostatistics II:  Statistics and Experimental Design

• Winter '24

BIOL 147 - Genomics: From Data to Analysis

• Fall '23

BIOL 166 - Molecular Basis of Cancer

• Winter '24

BIOL 171 - Current Topics in Cell Biology

• Spring '24

BIOL 173 - Cell Signaling

• Spring '24

BIOL 174 - Advanced Neurobiology

• Fall '22

BIOL 175 - Diseases of the Nervous System

• Fall '22

BIOL 176 - Advanced Genetics

• Fall '23

BIOL 180 - Microscopy Principles and Application

• Winter '24

CHEM 131 - Topics in Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

• Spring '23

CHEM 161 - Topics in Biophysical Chemistry

• All versions of this course number are approved
• Spring '23

COSC 274 - Machine Learning and Statistical Data Analysis

• Fall, Winter, Spring

ENGS 161 - Microbial Physiology and Metabolic Engineering

• Winter '23

ENGG 162 - Basic Biological Circuit Engineering

• Winter '23

ENGS 163 - Advanced Protein Engineering

• Winter '23

ENGS 167 - Medical Imaging

• Alternate years
• Fall '22

IND 101 Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

• Fall '22

IND 211 - Neurobiology of Disease

• Spring '24

MICR 142 - Cellular and Molecular Basis of Immunity

• Winter '23

MICR 144 - Cellular and Molecular Basis of Immunity

• Spring '23

MICR 146 - Immunotherapy

• Fall '23

MICR 149 - Microbial Physiology and Metabolism

• Summer '23

MICR 167 - The Biology of Fungi and Parasites that Cause Disease

• Winter '23

GENE 118 - Advanced Topics in Genetics and Molecular Genetics

• Cross listed as QBS146
• Spring '23

GENE 146 - Molecular and Computational Genomics

• Cross listed as QBS146
• Spring '23

GENE 148 - Biological Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics

• Winter '24

QBS 120 - Foundations of Biostatistics I: Statistical Inference

• Fall '22

QBS 121 - Foundations of Biostatistics II: Regression Modeling

• Spring '23

QBS 130 - Foundations of Epidemiology I: Theory and Methods

• Fall '22

QBS 132 - Molecular Biologic Markers in Human Health Studies

• Fall '22

QBS 133 - Clinical Epidemiology

• Spring '23

QBS 146 - Molecular and Computational Genomics

• Cross-listed as GENE 146
• Spring '23

ENGG 260 - Advances in Biotechnology

• Fall, Winter, Spring

IND 600 - Advances in Integrative Neuroscience

• Fall, Winter, Spring

CHEM 263 - Bioinorganic Chemistry

• Fall, Winter, Spring

GENE 260 - Biological Rhythms

• Fall, Winter, Spring

ENGG 261 - Biomass Energy Systems

• Winter '22

GENE 261 - Cancer Biology

• Fall, Winter, Spring

CANB 261 - Cancer Mechanisms and Therapeutics

• Fall, Winter, Spring

BIOL 263 - Cell Biology

• Fall, Winter, Spring

BIOC 259 - Cell Biology:  Cytoskeleton and Metabolism

• Fall, Winter, Spring

BIOL 275 - Cell Signaling in Development

• Fall, Winter, Spring

BIOL 274 - Cellular Neurobiology

• Fall, Winter, Spring

UNSG 300 - Communicating Science 

• Counts as one-time, one-term journal club for MCB
• Fall, Winter, Spring

QBS 193 - DNA Methylation and Cancer

• Fall, Winter, Spring

BIOL 268 - Genes and Gene Products

• Fall, Winter, Spring

MICR 264 - Immunology

• Fall, Winter, Spring

BIOC 262 - Lipid Biology and Neurodegeneration

• Fall, Winter, Spring

BIOL 265 - Microbial Ecology/Environmental Microbiology

• Fall, Winter, Spring

MICR 265 - Molecular Pathogenesis and Host-Microbe Interactions

• Winter, Spring

BIOC 261 - Phosphorylation Signaling

• Fall, Winter, Spring

BIOL 269 - Plant Molecular Biology

• Fall, Winter, Spring

BIOC 260/CHEM 264 - Structural Biology

• Enroll in Chem 264
• Fall, Winter, Spring

COSC 189 - Topics in Applied Computer Science

• Fall, Winter, Spring