Course List

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)      
QABIOL404Fitting Models to Data: Maximum Likelihood Methods and Model Selection3  
QABIOL415Quantitative Biology Laboratory3  
QABIOL421Design and Analysis of Biological Experiments3  
QABIOL452Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases3  
QABIOL473Introduction to Neurobiology3  
QABIOL478Computational Neuroscience3  
QAMATH419Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes for Biology3  
QAMATH497Stochastic Models: Time Series and Markov Chains3MATH 491 
QAMATH598Stochastic Models: Diffusive Phenomena and Stochastic Differential Equations3  
QAPHYS420Introduction to Biological Physics3  
QAPHYS430Experimental Methods in Biophysics3  
QAPHYS431Physics of Imaging3  
QAPHYS460Advanced Topics in NMR Imaging3  
QECSDS440Machine Learning3CSDS 491 
QECSDS442Causal Learning from Data3CSDS 440 
QECSDS458Introduction to Bioinformatics3  
QECSDS459Bioinformatics for Systems Biology3CSDS 458 
QECSDS491Artificial Intelligence: Probabilistic Graphical Models3  
QEEBME410Medical Imaging Fundamentals3  
QEEBME432Quantitative Analysis of Physiological Systems3  
QEEBME433Advanced Topics for Physiological Systems Analysis3  
QEEBME434Methodologies for Modeling Physiological Systems3  
QEEBME461Biomedical Image Processing and Analysis3  
QEEBME401DBiomedical Instrumentation and Signal Processing3  
QEEMAC402Polymer Foundation Course II: Physical Chemistry3  
QEEMAC403Polymer Foundation Course III: Physics3  
QEEMAC453Foundations of Scattering3EMAC 402, EMAC 403 
QEEMAE414Nanobiomechanics in Biology3  
QEEMAE415Introduction to Musculo-skeletal Biomechanics3  
QEEMAE466Mechanics of Biological Fluids3  
QMPQHS431Statistical Methods I3  
QMPQHS432Statistical Methods II3PQHS 431 
QMSYBB402Introduction to Scientific Computing1  
QMSYBB412Survey of Bioinformatics: Programming for Bioinformatics3SYBB 411A 
QMSYBB411ASurvey of Bioinformatics: Technologies in Bioinformatics1  
QMSYBB411BSurvey of Bioinformatics: Data Integration in Bioinformatics1  
QMSYBB411CSurvey of Bioinformatics: Translational Bioinformatics1  
BABIOL414Taming the Tree of Life: Phylogenetic Comparative Methods3  
BABIOL416Fundamental Immunology3  
BABIOL422Sensory Biology3  
BABIOL424Introduction to Stem Cell Biology3  
BABIOL426Genetics3  
BABIOL427Functional Genomics3  
BABIOL428Plant Genomics and Proteomics3  
BABIOL429Genome Dynamics3  
BABIOL443Microbiology3  
BABIOL451Principles of Ecology3  
BABIOL462Principles of Developmental Biology3  
BABIOL468Topics in Evolutionary Biology3  
BABIOL471Foundations of Advanced Ecology3BIOL 451 
BABIOL472Foundations of Advanced Evolution3  
BACHEM428Introductory Biochemistry I3  
BACHEM429Biochemistry II: Living Systems3  
BEEBME406Polymers in Medicine3  
B?EEBME407Neural Interfacing3 E-mail Dustin Tyler
BEEBME411Underpinnings of the Extracellular Matrix3  
BEEBME416Biomaterials for Drug Delivery3  
QEEBME421Bioelectric Phenomena3  
BEEBME426Nanomedicine3EBME 416 
B? BoluEEBME427Movement Biomechanics and Rehabilitation3  
BEEBME451Molecular and Cellular Physiology3  
? AndrewEEBME465Biomedical Optical Imaging3  
BEEBME474Biotransport Processes3  
B?EECHE486Protein Engineering3 maybe quantitative?
BEEMAC401Polymer Foundation Course I: Organic Chemistry3  
BMBIOC407Introduction to Biochemistry: From Molecules To Medical Science4undergrad organic chemistry 
BMBIOC408Molecular Biology4  
BMBIOC412Proteins and Enzymes3  
BMBIOC420Current Topics in Cancer3IBMS 453, IBMS 455 
BMBIOC432Current Topics in Vision Research3  
BMBIOC434Structural Biology3  
BMBIOC450Molecular Basis of Cancer3BIOC 407, BIOC 408 (co-req) 
BMBIOC452Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism3  
BMBIOC454Biochemistry and Biology of RNA3  
BMBIOC501Biochemical and Cellular Techniques for Biotechnology3  
BMBIOC599RNA Structure and Function3  
BMIBMS453Cell Biology I3  
BMIBMS455Molecular Biology I3  
BMNEUR401Biological Mechanisms of Brain Disorders3  
BMNEUR402Principles of Neural Science3  
BMPHOL410Basic Oxygen & Physiological Function3  
BMPHOL412Membrane Transport Processes3  
BMPHOL456Conversations on Protein Structure and Function2  
BMPHOL466Cell Signaling3  
QMPHOL475Protein Biophysics3  
BMPHOL480Physiology of Organ Systems4  
BMPHOL481Medical Physiology I6  
BMPHOL482Medical Physiology II6  
BMPHOL483Translational Physiology I3  
BMPHOL484Translational Physiology II3PHOL 482 (co-req) 
BMPHOL485Comparative & Evolutionary Physiology4  
BMPHOL401APhysiology and Biophysics of Molecules and Cells2  
BMPHOL401BPhysiology and Biophysics of Molecules and Cells2  
BMPHOL401CHuman Physiology: A Molecular Understanding of Organ System Function2PHOL 401A, PHOL 401B 
BMPHOL402A,BPhysiological Basis for Disease3  
QEECIV461Environmental Engineering Biotechnology3  
QEECHE340Biochemical Engineering3  
QEEBME350Quantitative Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Bioengineering3