Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

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Curriculum Information

Typical Educational Programs for full time students
(Course Listings and Descriptions)

Ph.D. Students:

Core (4 credits)	Skills (2 credits)	Focus Courses (2 or 3 credits)
Graduate Biochemistry	Experimental Design	Graduate Genetics (fall, odd yr.)
Molecular Biology of the Cell	Critical Readings	Molecular Oncology (spring, even yr.)
	Scientific Writing	Cell Culture & Stem Cells (fall, even yr.)
	Ethics	Practical Bioinformatics (spring, odd yr.)

All first year students will take Graduate Biochemistry, Experimental Design, and a focus course in the fall. They will take Molecular Biology of the Cell, Critical Readings and a focus course in the spring.
All second-year students will take Scientific Writing and a focus course in the fall. They will take Critical Readings, Ethics in Science and a focus course in the spring.
Each focus course will be taught every-other year and have both first- and second-year students enrolled.

Master of Biomedical Sciences Students:

Fundamentals in Systems Biology III (3 credits)
Ethics in Science, Research, Scholarship (2 credits) - required only if doing a research thesis
Electives

Master of Science in Molecular Pathology and Immunology Students

Fundamentals of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (I) (3 credits)
Fundamentals of Cell Biology (II) (3 credits)
Seminar in Molecular Pathology and Immunology (2 credits)
Topics in Molecular Pathology and Immunology (4 credits)
Ethics in Science, Research and Scholarship (2 credits)
Techniques in Molecular Diagnostics (2 credits)
Readings in Molecular Pathology and Immunology A and B (2 credits each)
Laboratory Rotation (Two rotations are required) (1 credit each)
Research in Molecular Pathology and Immunology I and II (1 and 2 credits, respectively)
Thesis Research / MSMPI (5 credits)

Certificate in the Biomedical Sciences:

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