Graduate Courses
The following curriculum has been proposed by the EGI Curriculum Committee and approved by the EGI Steering Committee.
Required coursework (12 credit hours):
Concept/Skill | Course | Credits | Schedule |
Evolution (choose one): | |||
| PLPTH 820: Population Genetics BIOL 890: Evolutionary Genetics BIOL 890: Genetic Analysis of Complex Traits | 3 3 3 | Spring, odd years Fall, even years Fall, odd years |
Ecology (choose one): | |||
| BIOL 818: Advanced Aquatic Ecology BIOL 865: Advanced Plant Ecology BIOL 875: Evolutionary Ecology BIOL 890: Community Ecology | 3 4 3 3 | Fall, odd years Fall, even years Spring, odd years |
Genomics: | |||
| PLPTH 812: Introduction to Integrative Genome Analysis | 3 | Fall, even years |
Computation/ Bioinformatics (choose one): | |||
| PLPTH 613 (813): Bioinformatics Applications CIS/BIOL 734: Introduction to Bioinformatics | 3 4 | Spring, odd years Spring, even years |
Elective: | See list of electives | 3 |
|
Elective Coursework
Genetics & Genomics | Ecology & Evolution |
AGRON 610/PLPTH 610: Biotechnology | BIOL 612: Freshwater Ecology |
AGRON 680: Plant Genetics | BIOL 640: Population Biology |
AGRON 915/PLPTH 915: Advanced Plant Genetics | BIOL 682: Fish Ecology |
AGRON 980: Genomic Analysis for Crop Improvement | BIOL 687: Microbial Ecology |
BIOL 675: Genetics of Microorganisms | BIOL 818: Advanced Aquatic Ecology |
BIOL 676: Molecular Genetics Laboratory | BIOL 822: Landscape Ecology |
BIOL 705: Eukaryotic Genetics | BIOL 823: Demographic Methods |
BIOL 890: Evolutionary Genetics | BIOL 826: Nutrient Dynamics |
BIOL 890: Genetic Analysis of Complex Traits | BIOL 828: Advanced Topics in Conservation Biology |
ENTOM 910: Insect Genetics | BIOL 865: Advanced Plant Ecology |
PLPTH 820: Population Genetics | BIOL 870: Advanced Plant Systematics |
PLPTH 927: Fungal Genetics | BIOL 875: Evolutionary Ecology |
| BIOL 890: Community Ecology |
ENTOM 692: Insect Ecology | |
| |
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | Statistics & Bioinformatics |
AGRON 880/PLPTH 880: Plant Molecular Biology | BIOL 734/CIS 734: Introduction to Bioinformatics |
BIOCH 755: Biochemistry I | BIOL 890/CIS 890: Next Generation Sequencing on Beocat and an Introduction to Perl for Bioinformatics |
BIOCH 765: Biochemistry II | PLPTH 613 (813): Bioinformatics Applications |
BIOCH 920: Nucleic Acids | STAT 703: Statistical Methods for the Sciences |
BIOL 707: Advanced Cell Biology | STAT 705: Regression and Analysis of Variance |
BIOL 730: General Virology | STAT 720: Design of Experiments |
BIOL 802/PLPTH 800: Advances in Plant Stress Signaling | STAT 725: Introduction of SAS Computing |
BIOL 860: Modern Molecular Approaches | STAT 726: Introduction to R Computing |
ENTOM 830: Molecular Entomology | STAT 730: Multivariate Statistical Methods |
| STAT 870: Analysis of Messy Data |
STAT 907: Bayesian Statistical Reference |
