Biological Sciences Graduate Course Offerings (2011 - 2012)

Formal Courses

Below is a list of graduate courses that we expect to offer during the 2011-2012 academic year.  Please refer to the UCSD Schedule of Classes for official course offerings and schedules.

Six-unit courses
  • BGGN 220 (Graduate Molecular Biology): Fall Quarter
  • BGGN 222 (Graduate Cell Biology): Winter Quarter
  • BGGN 223 (Graduate Genetics): Spring Quarter

Two- or Four-unit courses

(First year required courses)

  • BGGN 200 (Graduate School Fundamentals)- 2 units: Fall Quarter
  • BGGN 208 (Biological Sciences Graduate Boot Camp): Fall Quarter

(First year elective courses)

  • BGGN 204 (Topics in Ecology, Behavior & Evolution): quarter offered varies - For EBE students
  • BGGN 216 (Graduate Biostatistics): Winter Quarter
  • BGGN 224 (Graduate Neurobiology): Fall Quarter
  • BGGN 225 (Graduate Immunology): Winter Quarter
  • BGGN 226 (Graduate Virology): Spring Quarter
  • BGGN 227 (Graduate Plant Systems Biology): Winter Quarter
  • BGGN 228 (Graduate Developmental Biology): Winter Quarter
  • BGGN 229 (Graduate Oncogenes): not offered this year
  • BGGN 230 (Graduate Signal Transduction): Winter Quarter
  • BGGN 231 (Current Concepts in Stem Cell Biology): Fall Quarter
  • BGGN 238A (Integrative Microbiology I): Winter Quarter
  • BGGN 238B (Integrative Microbiology II): Spring Quarter
  • BGGN 242 (Graduate Cancer Biology): not offered this year
  • BGGN 249B (Basic Neuroscience II): Winter Quarter
  • BGGN 249C (Basic Neuroscience III): Spring Quarter

Other graduate course offerings (other than first year course electives)

  • BGGN 201 (Modern Methods in Computational Neuroscience): Fall Quarter
  • BGGN 234 (Practical Histopathology / Mouse Modeling): Fall Quarter
  • BGGN 236: (Essentials of Glycobiology): Spring Quarter
  • BGGN 237 (Quantitative Methods in Genetics): Winter Quarter
  • BGGN 245 (Advanced Topics in Cancer Research and Therapy): Spring Quarter
  • BGGN 246A (Computational Neurobiology): Winter Quarter
  • BGGN 248 (Molecular Mechanisms of Neural Development): Winter Quarter
  • BGGN 260 (Neurodynamics): Winter Quarter
  • BGGN 262 (3D Electron Microscopy of Macromolecules): Winter Quarter
  • BGGN 264 (Structural Biology of Viruses): Spring Quarter
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