Approved Elective Courses

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 2021SPRING 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 2020SPRING 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 2020SPRING 2019

Advanced Organic Reaction Mechanisms
Course Number: 7460
1.5 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, SPRING 2023, SPRING 2021SPRING 2020SPRING 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 2022AUTUMN 2021, AUTUMN 2020

Advanced Microbial Genetics
Course Number: 6080
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2025, SPRING 2021SPRING 2020, SPRING 2019

Cellular and Molecular Immunology
Course Number: 7010 (Cross-listed with CBG 7010)
3 credits
OFFERED SPRING 2021, SPRING 2020SPRING 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 2020SPRING 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