IGS COURSE REQUIREMENTS

All courses should be taken for a grade: A-F

1. An introductory biology course
    (i.e. BIOL/MBB 181 - Principles of Biology I, or an approved alternative)

2. One introductory computer science course
    (e.g., COMP 112 - Introduction to Programming, COMP 114 -How to Talk to Machines, COMP 115 - How to Design Programs, COMP 211 - Computer Science I, COMP 113/BIOL/MB&B 265 - Bioinformatics Programming, BIOL 270 - Systems Biology with Programming or approved alternatives)

3a. One advanced computer science course
    (e.g., COMP 212 - Computer Science II,  COMP 331 – Computer Structure and Operation, COMP 312 - Algorithms and Complexity or an approved alternative)

or 3b. Three 0.5-credit Quantitative Analysis Center courses
    (e.g., QAC 150 – SQL and Databases, QAC 151 – Excel and VBA, QAC 154 — MATLAB, QAC 156 – R, QAC 157 – SAS, or QAC 158 – Stata or an approved alternative)

4. An upper-level bioinformatics course
    (see table below for approved courses) 

5. One course in each of two of the following categories (see table below)                           
    Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology     Structural Biology
    Evolutionary Biology                          Applied Quantitative Reasoning
    Bioethics & Philosophy of Biology

Approved Courses for Requirements 4 and 5