Biotechnology Studies

Graduate School of Management and Technology

Master of Science in Biotechnology Studies Course Requirements

Recommendations

1. Students who wish to improve their graduate writing skills may take COMM 600, Academic Writing for Graduate Students (3).
2. It is strongly recommended that BIOT 601, Molecular Biology for Business Managers (3), be taken by students without a background in molecular biology.

Core Required Courses

UCSP 611 Introduction to Graduate Library Research Skills (0), to be taken within the first 6 credits of study.

• BIOT 640 Societal Issues in Biotechnology(3)
• BIOT 630 Introduction to Bioinformatics (3)
• BIOT 645 The Business of Biotechnology (3)
• BIOT 643 Techniques of Biotechnology (3)
• PMAN 634 Foundations of Project Management (3)

* BTMN 670 must be taken after completion of 27 credits of study.

Core Rules

1. BIOT 640 must be taken as the first program course.
2. All core courses with the BIOT designator must be completed before starting any specialization.

Specialization - Bioinformatics (BIFS) Required Courses

• BIFS 613 Statistical Processes for Biotechnology (3)
• BIFS 617 Advanced Bioinformatics (3)
• DBST 651 Relational Database Systems (3)
• BIFS 618 Java for Biotechnology Applications (3)
• BIFS 619 Gene Expression Data Analysis (3)
• BIFS 614 Data Structures and Algorithms (3)

Capstone Course: BTMN 670 Capstone in Biotechnology (3)

Specialization Rules

• BIFS 617 is a prerequisite to BIFS 619.

Recommendations

• It is strongly recommended that students without a background in statistics take STAT 200.

Note: Some course names and numbers were updated beginning with the fall 2007 semester. If you began the program prior to fall 2007 and have chosen to follow your original, pre-fall 2007 requirements, you should use the pre-fall 2007 Study Plan for this degree.

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