Minor

If a BICB graduate student pursues a Minor in a different program, courses that are used to satisfy course requirements in the Core Areas cannot simultaneously be used to satisfy credit requirements for a Minor.  A maximum of 6 course credits in the Elective courses may be applied towards a M.S. Graduate Minor and a maximum of 9 course credits in the Elective courses may be applied towards a Ph.D. Graduate Minor, and thus count toward satisfying both the Elective and the Minor requirements.

Graduate students who major in other programs may obtain a Minor in the BICB graduate program. For the doctoral Minor, a minimum of 12 credits must be taken from two of Core Areas 1-3, and one of Elective Areas 4-13. For a Master’s Minor, a minimum of 9 credits must be completed from two of Core Areas 1-3, and one of Elective Areas 4-13. Core BICB courses or core seminars may be included in the total credits required by the doctoral and Master’s minor.

Core areas:

  1. Biochemistry, genetics, molecular cell biology and physiology
  2. Mathematics, biostatistics and statistics
  3. Computer science, informatics, computational biology and system biology

Elective areas:

  1. Genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, microbiome
  2. Plant science, animal science, veterinary medicine
  3. Biophysics, structural biology, chemical biology, protein engineering, spectroscopy
  4. Computational chemistry, cheminformatics, medicinal chemistry and drug design
  5. Databases, data analytics, data mining, artificial intelligence and machine learning
  6. Data management, data modeling, algorithms and optimization
  7. Big data analytics, distributed systems, parallel computing, cloud computing
  8. Computer vision, imaging analysis, virtual reality, signal processing and neural networks
  9. Clinical and translational sciences
  10. Health informatics, electronic medical records, and natural language processing

There is a limit of one 3-credit or less 4xxx level course counted in the total course credits. Graduate credits applied toward a minor field cannot also be applied toward another minor field. Other restrictions may apply, and the student should consult the DGS of the major program.

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