The following courses are approved as quantitative or biosciences courses for the Interschool Quantitative Biosciences graduate certificate.
Students who believe that the breadth designations are incorrect should contact a director. Similarly, if a class appears to be missing, please reach out, as new classes are frequently added and others may have been missed.
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| Breadth category: | School: | Department: | Course number: | Course name: | Credits: | Prerequisites: | Breadth category questions? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quantitative (Q) vs. Biosciences (B) | ArtSci (A), Engineering (E), Medicine (M) | ||||||
| Q | A | BIOL | 404 | Fitting Models to Data: Maximum Likelihood Methods and Model Selection | 3 | ||
| Q | A | BIOL | 415 | Quantitative Biology Laboratory | 3 | ||
| Q | A | BIOL | 421 | Design and Analysis of Biological Experiments | 3 | ||
| Q | A | BIOL | 452 | Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases | 3 | ||
| Q | A | BIOL | 473 | Introduction to Neurobiology | 3 | ||
| Q | A | BIOL | 478 | Computational Neuroscience | 3 | ||
| Q | A | MATH | 419 | Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes for Biology | 3 | ||
| Q | A | MATH | 497 | Stochastic Models: Time Series and Markov Chains | 3 | MATH 491 | |
| Q | A | MATH | 598 | Stochastic Models: Diffusive Phenomena and Stochastic Differential Equations | 3 | ||
| Q | A | PHYS | 420 | Introduction to Biological Physics | 3 | ||
| Q | A | PHYS | 430 | Experimental Methods in Biophysics | 3 | ||
| Q | A | PHYS | 431 | Physics of Imaging | 3 | ||
| Q | A | PHYS | 460 | Advanced Topics in NMR Imaging | 3 | ||
| Q | E | CSDS | 440 | Machine Learning | 3 | CSDS 491 | |
| Q | E | CSDS | 442 | Causal Learning from Data | 3 | CSDS 440 | |
| Q | E | CSDS | 458 | Introduction to Bioinformatics | 3 | ||
| Q | E | CSDS | 459 | Bioinformatics for Systems Biology | 3 | CSDS 458 | |
| Q | E | CSDS | 491 | Artificial Intelligence: Probabilistic Graphical Models | 3 | ||
| Q | E | EBME | 410 | Medical Imaging Fundamentals | 3 | ||
| Q | E | EBME | 432 | Quantitative Analysis of Physiological Systems | 3 | ||
| Q | E | EBME | 433 | Advanced Topics for Physiological Systems Analysis | 3 | ||
| Q | E | EBME | 434 | Methodologies for Modeling Physiological Systems | 3 | ||
| Q | E | EBME | 461 | Biomedical Image Processing and Analysis | 3 | ||
| Q | E | EBME | 401D | Biomedical Instrumentation and Signal Processing | 3 | ||
| Q | E | EMAC | 402 | Polymer Foundation Course II: Physical Chemistry | 3 | ||
| Q | E | EMAC | 403 | Polymer Foundation Course III: Physics | 3 | ||
| Q | E | EMAC | 453 | Foundations of Scattering | 3 | EMAC 402, EMAC 403 | |
| Q | E | EMAE | 414 | Nanobiomechanics in Biology | 3 | ||
| Q | E | EMAE | 415 | Introduction to Musculo-skeletal Biomechanics | 3 | ||
| Q | E | EMAE | 466 | Mechanics of Biological Fluids | 3 | ||
| Q | M | PQHS | 431 | Statistical Methods I | 3 | ||
| Q | M | PQHS | 432 | Statistical Methods II | 3 | PQHS 431 | |
| Q | M | SYBB | 402 | Introduction to Scientific Computing | 1 | ||
| Q | M | SYBB | 412 | Survey of Bioinformatics: Programming for Bioinformatics | 3 | SYBB 411A | |
| Q | M | SYBB | 411A | Survey of Bioinformatics: Technologies in Bioinformatics | 1 | ||
| Q | M | SYBB | 411B | Survey of Bioinformatics: Data Integration in Bioinformatics | 1 | ||
| Q | M | SYBB | 411C | Survey of Bioinformatics: Translational Bioinformatics | 1 | ||
| B | A | BIOL | 414 | Taming the Tree of Life: Phylogenetic Comparative Methods | 3 | ||
| B | A | BIOL | 416 | Fundamental Immunology | 3 | ||
| B | A | BIOL | 422 | Sensory Biology | 3 | ||
| B | A | BIOL | 424 | Introduction to Stem Cell Biology | 3 | ||
| B | A | BIOL | 426 | Genetics | 3 | ||
| B | A | BIOL | 427 | Functional Genomics | 3 | ||
| B | A | BIOL | 428 | Plant Genomics and Proteomics | 3 | ||
| B | A | BIOL | 429 | Genome Dynamics | 3 | ||
| B | A | BIOL | 443 | Microbiology | 3 | ||
| B | A | BIOL | 451 | Principles of Ecology | 3 | ||
| B | A | BIOL | 462 | Principles of Developmental Biology | 3 | ||
| B | A | BIOL | 468 | Topics in Evolutionary Biology | 3 | ||
| B | A | BIOL | 471 | Foundations of Advanced Ecology | 3 | BIOL 451 | |
| B | A | BIOL | 472 | Foundations of Advanced Evolution | 3 | ||
| B | A | CHEM | 428 | Introductory Biochemistry I | 3 | ||
| B | A | CHEM | 429 | Biochemistry II: Living Systems | 3 | ||
| B | E | EBME | 406 | Polymers in Medicine | 3 | ||
| B? | E | EBME | 407 | Neural Interfacing | 3 | E-mail Dustin Tyler | |
| B | E | EBME | 411 | Underpinnings of the Extracellular Matrix | 3 | ||
| B | E | EBME | 416 | Biomaterials for Drug Delivery | 3 | ||
| Q | E | EBME | 421 | Bioelectric Phenomena | 3 | ||
| B | E | EBME | 426 | Nanomedicine | 3 | EBME 416 | |
| B? Bolu | E | EBME | 427 | Movement Biomechanics and Rehabilitation | 3 | ||
| B | E | EBME | 451 | Molecular and Cellular Physiology | 3 | ||
| ? Andrew | E | EBME | 465 | Biomedical Optical Imaging | 3 | ||
| B | E | EBME | 474 | Biotransport Processes | 3 | ||
| B? | E | ECHE | 486 | Protein Engineering | 3 | maybe quantitative? | |
| B | E | EMAC | 401 | Polymer Foundation Course I: Organic Chemistry | 3 | ||
| B | M | BIOC | 407 | Introduction to Biochemistry: From Molecules To Medical Science | 4 | undergrad organic chemistry | |
| B | M | BIOC | 408 | Molecular Biology | 4 | ||
| B | M | BIOC | 412 | Proteins and Enzymes | 3 | ||
| B | M | BIOC | 420 | Current Topics in Cancer | 3 | IBMS 453, IBMS 455 | |
| B | M | BIOC | 432 | Current Topics in Vision Research | 3 | ||
| B | M | BIOC | 434 | Structural Biology | 3 | ||
| B | M | BIOC | 450 | Molecular Basis of Cancer | 3 | BIOC 407, BIOC 408 (co-req) | |
| B | M | BIOC | 452 | Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism | 3 | ||
| B | M | BIOC | 454 | Biochemistry and Biology of RNA | 3 | ||
| B | M | BIOC | 501 | Biochemical and Cellular Techniques for Biotechnology | 3 | ||
| B | M | BIOC | 599 | RNA Structure and Function | 3 | ||
| B | M | IBMS | 453 | Cell Biology I | 3 | ||
| B | M | IBMS | 455 | Molecular Biology I | 3 | ||
| B | M | NEUR | 401 | Biological Mechanisms of Brain Disorders | 3 | ||
| B | M | NEUR | 402 | Principles of Neural Science | 3 | ||
| B | M | PHOL | 410 | Basic Oxygen & Physiological Function | 3 | ||
| B | M | PHOL | 412 | Membrane Transport Processes | 3 | ||
| B | M | PHOL | 456 | Conversations on Protein Structure and Function | 2 | ||
| B | M | PHOL | 466 | Cell Signaling | 3 | ||
| Q | M | PHOL | 475 | Protein Biophysics | 3 | ||
| B | M | PHOL | 480 | Physiology of Organ Systems | 4 | ||
| B | M | PHOL | 481 | Medical Physiology I | 6 | ||
| B | M | PHOL | 482 | Medical Physiology II | 6 | ||
| B | M | PHOL | 483 | Translational Physiology I | 3 | ||
| B | M | PHOL | 484 | Translational Physiology II | 3 | PHOL 482 (co-req) | |
| B | M | PHOL | 485 | Comparative & Evolutionary Physiology | 4 | ||
| B | M | PHOL | 401A | Physiology and Biophysics of Molecules and Cells | 2 | ||
| B | M | PHOL | 401B | Physiology and Biophysics of Molecules and Cells | 2 | ||
| B | M | PHOL | 401C | Human Physiology: A Molecular Understanding of Organ System Function | 2 | PHOL 401A, PHOL 401B | |
| B | M | PHOL | 402A,B | Physiological Basis for Disease | 3 | ||
| Q | E | ECIV | 461 | Environmental Engineering Biotechnology | 3 | ||
| Q | E | ECHE | 340 | Biochemical Engineering | 3 | ||
| Q | E | EBME | 350 | Quantitative Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Bioengineering | 3 |