Recommended Electives

These are some courses I recommend based on my different scientific identities. They are either courses similar to ones I took or wish I had taken as an undergraduate student. Please speak to your academic advisor first to make sure they fit into your program’s coursework.

Course Listing	Course Name	Plant Pathologist	Oxylipin Biologist	Maize Geneticist
Molecular Biology
BIOL-202	Molecular Biology	x	x	x
BIOL-204	Introduction to Microbiology	x	x	x
BIOL-302	Cell Biology	x	x	x
BIOL-303	Cell Physiology	x	x	x
BIOL-321	Genetics	x	x	x
BIOL-428	Eukaryotic Gene Regulation and Disease	x	x	x
Organismal Biology
BIOL-218	Biology of Plants	x		x
BIOL-322	Developmental Biology	x		x
BIOL-389	Principles of Mycology & Entomology	x		x
Population Biology
BIOL-240	General Ecology	x		x
BIOL-265	Evolutionary Biology	x	x	x
BIOL-345	Molecular Ecology	x	x	x
BIOL-365	Introduction to Population Genetics	x		x
BIOL-420	Bacterial-Host Interactions: Microbiomes of the World	x	x	x
Bioinformatics
BIOL-230	Bioinformatics Languages	x	x	x
BIOL-327	Fundamental Bioinformatics Analysis	x	x	x
BIOL-330	Bioinformatics	x	x	x
BIOL-340	Genomics	x	x	x
Applied Biology
BIOL-305	Plants, Medicine and Technology			x
BIOL-307	Microbiology of Wastewater
BIOL-310	Bio-energy: Microbial Production
BIOL-370	Environmental Microbiology			x
BIOL-380	Bioremediation
BIOL-416	Plant Biotechnology	x	x	x
BIOL-418	Plant Molecular Biology	x	x	x
BIOL-441	Genetic Engineering & Synthetic Biology	x	x	x
BIOL-450	Genetic Engineering	x	x	x
Discipline
BIOL-403	Fundamentals of Plant Biochemistry and Pathology	x	x	x
BIOL-375	Advanced Immunology	x	x
MEDS-242	Cell Structure & Function		x	x
MEDS-313	Introduction to Infectious Diseases	x
MEDS-421	Parasitology	x
MEDS-422	Endocrinology		x
MEDS-430	Epidemiology	x
MEDS-530	Human Immunology	x	x
Chemistry
CHMG-141	General & Analytical Chemistry I	x	x	x
CHMG-142	General & Analytical Chemistry II	x	x	x
CHMG-145	General & Analytical Chemistry I Lab		x	x
CHMG-146	General & Analytical Chemistry II Lab		x	x
CHMO-231	Organic Chemistry I	x	x	x
CHMO-232	Organic Chemistry II	x	x	x
CHMO-235	Organic Chemistry Lab I		x	x
CHMO-236	Organic Chemistry Lab II		x	x
CHMB-402	Biochemistry I	x	x	x
CHMB-403	Biochemistry II	x	x	x
CHMB-405	Biochemistry Lab		x	x
CHMA-261	Instrumental Analysis		x	x
CHMA-265	Instrumental Analysis Lab		x	x
BIOL-401	Biological Separations: Principles and Practices		x	x
Statistics
STAT-145	Introduction to Statistics I	x	x	x
STAT-146	Introduction to Statistics II	x	x	x
STAT-305	Regression Analysis			x
STAT-325	Design of Experiments	x	x	x
STAT-345	Nonparametric Statistics	x	x	x
STAT-425	Multivariate Analysis	x	x	x