This is a list of elective courses that are currently offered or have been offered within the last 3 years. For a complete list of approved electives, please see the OSBP Student Handbook.
Electives Track Resource Sheet
***Indicates Quantitative Electives
Animal Science (ANIMSCI)
Macronutrient Metabolism
Course Number: 7761
4 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024, AUTUMN 2023, AUTUMN 2022
Biochemistry (BIOCHEM)
Advanced Biochemistry: Enzymes
Course Number: 6762
1.5 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, SPRING 2024, SPRING 2023, SPRING 2022, SPRING 2021
Advanced Biochemistry: Membranes and Lipids
Course Number: 6763
1.5 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, SPRING 2024, SPRING 2023, SPRING 2022, SPRING 2021
***Advanced Biochemistry: Physical Biochemistry
Course Number: 6765.02
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, SPRING 2024, SPRING 2023, SPRING 2022, SPRING 2021
Advanced Biochemistry: Protein Engineering
Course Number: 7770.01
1.5 or 3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2021, SPRING 2019, SPRING 2018
Special Topics in Biophysical Chemistry
Course Number: 7775
1.5 credits
Advanced Biochemistry: Nucleic Acids
Course Number: 7766.01
1.5 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, SPRING 2024, SPRING 2023, SPRING 2020, AUTUMN 2018
Advanced Biochemistry: Biomolecular NMR
Course Number: 7800.01
1.5 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025
Advanced Topics in Biochemistry
Course Number: 8990
1 or 1.5 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2021, SPRING 2020, AUTUMN 2018,
Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology (BIOPHRM)
Molecular Basis of Oxidative Stress
Course Number: 5050
2 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, SPRING 2024, SPRING 2023, SPRING 2022, SPRING 2021
Epigenetics
Course Number: 5555
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, SPRING 2024, SPRING 2023, SPRING 2022
Gene Expression: Post-Transcriptional Control
Course Number: 7807 (Cross-listed with MOLGEN 7807)
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, SPRING 2024, SPRING 2023, SPRING 2022, SPRING 2021
Selected Topics in Molecular Medicine
Course Number: 7823
2 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024, AUTUMN 2023, AUTUMN 2022, AUTUMN 2021
Biomedical Informatics (BMI)
***Introduction to Bioinformatics
Course Number: 5730
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, AUTUMN 2024, SPRING 2023, AUTUMN 2022, SPRING 2022, SPRING 2021
***Methods in Biomedical Informatics
Course Number: 5750
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, SUMMER 2024, SUMMER 2023, SUMMER 2022, SUMMER 2021, SUMMER 2020
Proteomics Data Analysis
Course Number: 7530
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025
Metabolomics, Principles and Practice
Course Number: 7600
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2023
Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program (BSGP)
***Introductions to Data Science for Biological Sciences
Course Number: 7030
2 credits
OFFERED SUMMER 2024, SUMMER 2023, SUMMER 2022, SUMMER 2021
Cancer Biology and Genetics (CBG)
Cellular and Molecular Immunology
Course Number: 7010 (Cross-listed with MICRBIO 7010)
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2021, SPRING 2019, SPRING 2018
Molecular Virology and Pathogenesis of Viruses
Course Number: 7741 (Cross-listed with MOLGEN 7741)
5 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024, AUTUMN 2023, AUTUMN 2022, AUTUMN 2021, AUTUMN 2020
Biochemical Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis
Course Number: 8270
2 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024, AUTUMN 2023, AUTUMN 2022, SPRING 2020, SPRING 2019
Chemistry (CHEM)
***Analytical Data Treatment - Statistical and Numerical Analysis
Course Number: 6120
1.5 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024, AUTUMN 2023, AUTUMN 2021
Fundamentals of Coordination Chemistry
Course Number: 6310
1.5 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024, AUTUMN 2023, AUTUMN 2022, AUTUMN 2021, AUTUMN 2020
Basic Organic Reaction Mechanism
Course Number: 6410
1.5 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024, AUTUMN 2023, AUTUMN 2022, AUTUMN 2021, AUTUMN 2020
Stereochemistry and Conformational Analysis
Course Number: 6420
1.5 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024, AUTUMN 2023, AUTUMN 2022, AUTUMN 2021, AUTUMN 2020
Introduction to Organic Synthesis
Course Number: 6430
1.5 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024, AUTUMN 2023, AUTUMN 2022, AUTUMN 2021, AUTUMN 2020
Introduction to Physical Organic Chemistry
Course Number: 6440
1.5 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024, AUTUMN 2023, AUTUMN 2022, AUTUMN 2021, AUTUMN 2020
Thermodynamics
Course Number: 6520
1.5 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024, AUTUMN 2023, AUTUMN 2022, AUTUMN 2021, AUTUMN 2020
Kinetics
Course Number: 6530
1.5 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024, AUTUMN 2023, AUTUMN 2022, AUTUMN 2021, AUTUMN 2020
Analytical Spectrometry
Course Number: 7140
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, AUTUMN 2022, SPRING 2021, SPRING 2019
Mass Spectrometry
Course Number: 7150
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2022, SPRING 2021, SPRING 2020
NMR Spectroscopy
Course Number: 7160
3 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2023, AUTUMN 2021, AUTUMN 2019, AUTUMN 2017
Bioinorganic Chemistry
Course Number: 7360
1.5 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2023, SPRING 2021, SPRING 2020, SPRING 2019
Advanced Organic Reaction Mechanisms
Course Number: 7460
1.5 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, SPRING 2023, SPRING 2021, SPRING 2020, SPRING 2019
***Computational Chemistry
Course Number: 7470
1.5 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2023, SPRING 2022, SPRING 2021
Chemical Dynamics
Course Number: 7540
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE)
Molecular Informatics
Course Number: 5734
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, SPRING 2024, SPRING 2023
***Design and Analysis of Experiments
Course Number: 5779
3 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024, AUTUMN 2023, AUTUMN 2022, AUTUMN 2021
Food Science & Technology (FDSCTE)
Food and Nutritional Toxicology
Course Number: 7620
2 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, SPRING 2023
Food Carbohydrates and Proteins
Course Number: 7640
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2022, SPRING 2019, SPRING 2018, SPRING 2016
Food Flavors and Lipids
Course Number: 7650
2 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025
Human Nutrition (HUMNNUTR)
Advanced Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases
Course Number: 7630
3 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024, AUTUMN 2023
Materials Science and Engineering (MATSCEN)
Practical Transmission Electron Microscopy Lab
Course Number: 6741
2 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, AUTUMN 2024, AUTUMN 2023, AUTUMN 2022
Microbiology (MICRBIO)
***Bioinformatics and Genomics
Course Number: 5161
3 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024, SPRING 2023, SPRING 2022, SPRING 2021
Microbial Physiology and Biochemistry
Course Number: 6020
3 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024, AUTUMN 2023, AUTUMN 2022, AUTUMN 2021, AUTUMN 2020
Advanced Microbial Genetics
Course Number: 6080
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, SPRING 2021, SPRING 2020, SPRING 2019
Cellular and Molecular Immunology
Course Number: 7010 (Cross-listed with CBG 7010)
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2021, SPRING 2020, SPRING 2019
Advanced Topics in Molecular Microbiology
Course Number: 7060
2 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, SPRING 2019, SPRING 2018, SPRING 2017
Molecular Pathogenesis
Course Number: 7724 (Cross-listed with BSGP 7240)
3 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2022, AUTUMN 2109, AUTUMN 2018
The RNA World
Course Number: 8050
2 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2022, AUTUMN 2021, AUTUMN 2020, AUTUMN 2019
***Microbiome Informatics
Course Number: 8161
3 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2023, AUTUMN 2022, SPRING 2021
Microbial Infection and Immunity (MEDMCIM)
Cellular and Molecular Immunology
Course Number: 7010
3 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024, SPRING 2023
Molecular Genetics (MOLGEN)
Cancer Genetics
Course Number: 5300
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, AUTUMN 2024, SPRING 2024
***Analysis and Interpretation of Biological Data
Course Number: 5650
3 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024, AUTUMN 2023, AUTUMN 2022, AUTUMN 2021, AUTUMN 2020
Systems of Genetic Analysis
Course Number: 5700
3 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024, AUTUMN 2023, AUTUMN 2022, AUTUMN 2021, AUTUMN 2020
Advances in Cell Biology
Course Number: 5705
2 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, SPRING 2024, SPRING 2023, SPRING 2022, SPRING 2021
Developmental Genetics
Course Number: 5715
2 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, SPRING 2024, SPRING 2023, SPRING 2022, SPRING 2021
Plant Biochemistry
Course Number: 5735
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2021, SPRING 2020, SPRING 2019
Molecular Virology and Pathogenesis of Viruses
Course Number: 7741 (Cross-listed with CBG7741)
5 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024, AUTUMN 2023, AUTUMN 2022, AUTUMN 2021, AUTUMN 2020
Neurological Surgery (NEURSGY)
Biology of the Tumor Microenvironment
Course Number: 8250
2 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2023, AUTUMN 2022, AUTUMN 2021, AUTUMN 2020
Neuroscience (NEUROSC)
Neurobiology of Disease
Course Number: 7050
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, SPRING 2023
Pharmaceutical Sciences (PHR)
High Throughput Screening for Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences
Course Number: 7120
1 credit
OFFERED SPRING 2025
Applied Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
Course Number: 7584
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025
Physics (PHYSICS)
***Topics in Biophysics
Course Number: 6809
4 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024
***Topics in Computational Physics
Course Number: 6810
4 credits
Physiology and Cell Biology (PHYSIO)
Advanced Human Physiology I
Course Number: 6101
3 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024
Advanced Cardiac Metabolics
Course Number: 8102
3 credits
Plant Pathology (PLNTPTH)
Current Topics in Plant Pathology
Course Number: 8300
1-2 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, AUTUMN 2024
Statistics (STAT)
***Intermediate Data Analysis I
Course Number: 5301
4 credits
OFFERED AUTUMN 2024, SUMMER 2024, AUTUMN 2023, SPRING 2023, SUMMER 2022, AUTUMN 2022, SPRING 2022, AUTUMN 2021
***Intermediate Data Analysis II
Course Number: 5302
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, SPRING 2023, SPRING 2022, SPRING 2021