MSBio Courses Offered
Pre-Professional Track
Fall Semester
Required:
- BIO 508: Biology Career Development (2 hours)
- BIO 570: Graduate Project II (2 hours)
3 Electives (one course with lab):
- BIO 509: Applied Gross Anatomy
- BIO 517: Developmental Biology
- Bio 519: Clinical Microbiology
- BIO 520: Immunology
- BIO 521: Advanced Anatomy and Physiology
- BIO 525: Molecular Biology
- BIO 540: Experimental Design and Biostatistics (lab required)
Spring Semester
Required:
- BIO 571: Graduate Project II (2 hours)
3 Electives (one course with lab):
- BIO 505: Applied Anatomy and Physiology I
- BIO 507: Applied Anatomy and Physiology II
- BIO 512: Comparative Anatomy
- BIO 515: Genetics
- BIO 516: Physiology
- BIO 522: Advanced Anatomy and Physiology II
- BIO 523: Cell Biology
- BIO 597: Special Topics in Cell and Molecular Biology
- BIO 585: Pathobiology
Note: Students may not take both Advanced A&P and Applied A&P or Advanced Gross and Applied Gross. Additional courses will be added as the program grows.
General Biology Track
Fall Semester
Required:
- BIO 508: Biology Career Development (2 hours)
- BIO 570: Graduate Project II (2 hours)
3 Electives (one course with lab):
- BIO 501: Invertebrate Zoology (lab required)
- BIO 510: Advanced Gross Anatomy
- BIO 517: Developmental Biology
- Bio 519: Clinical Microbiology
- BIO 521: Advanced Anatomy and Physiology
- BIO 525: Molecular Biology
- BIO 536: Ecology and Conservation of the Vertebrates
- BIO 540: Experimental Design and Biostatistics (lab required)
- BIO 543: Natural Resources Policy
- BIO 559: Dendrology (lab required)
- BIO 598: Conservation Seminare (cannot be substituted for lab)
Spring Semester
Required:
- BIO 571: Graduate Project II (2 hours)
3 Electives (one course with lab):
- BIO 505: Applied Anatomy and Physiology I
- BIO 507: Applied Anatomy and Physiology II
- BIO 511: Conservation Techniques (lab required)
- BIO 512: Comparative Anatomy
- BIO 515: Genetics
- BIO 516: Physiology
- BIO 522: Advanced Anatomy and Physiology II
- BIO 523: Cell Biology
- BIO 535: Conservation Biology
- BIO 537: Taxonomy of the Vascular Plants
- BIO 538: Ecology
- BIO 555: Environmental Ethics
- BIO 558: Plant Physiology
- BIO 585: Pathobiology
- BIO 597: Special Topics in Cell and Molecular Biology
- BIO 598: Conservation Seminar (not substituted for lab)
Note: Students may not take both Advanced A&P and Applied A&P. Additional courses will be added as the program grows.