Vanderbilt Courses available to Fisk Biology MA Program
Terminal Master’s students are encouraged to enroll in some of the Vanderbilt courses identified below to fulfill their academic interests and degree requirements. Bridge students will be expected to take at least two courses at Vanderbilt during the MA phase of their program.
It is imperative that students review off-campus courses with their advisor to select appropriate courses. Furthermore, the student and their advisor should contact the instructor to determine whether the student’s background has adequately prepared them for enrollment in a particular course. Below is a sample listing of some courses available in Vanderbilt’s Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and Department of Biological Sciences. These were chosen because they are those most relevant to current areas of research at Fisk, but there are many other departments with many additional course offerings. It will be best to work with your mentor and the Program Leadership to identify courses of interest and stay up-to-date on currently offered courses (many graduate courses are subject to change as new areas of research develop).
Requirements
IGP BioRegulation I:
Beginning in Fall 2019, second year students have the option of enrolling in specific modules of Vanderbilt’s (IGP) Interdisciplinary Graduate Program’s “Bioregulation” course. This is a course typically taken by first-year PhD students in the IGP that is broken into distinct modular domains:
- Biostatistics (offered in August before official start of the Fall semester)
- Macromolecular Structure and Function
- Genetics
- Gene Expression
- Cell Biology
- Signaling
- Cell Cycle and Chromosome Dynamics
These modules can be taken by students in the Bridge Program, and each will be given a Fisk course number.
IGP Bioregulation II Series:
Another option is to enroll (with prior approval of your advisor and the instructor of the course) for modules offered by the Vanderbilt Interdisciplinary Graduate Program as part of their Bioregulation II series IGP 300B.
Reminder: more courses are offered in other departments and graduate programs at Vanderbilt University that may match a student’s particular research area and these are typically open to Bridge students also.
Required
| CBIO 8312 | Introduction to Developmental Biology | 3 |
| CBIO 8313 | Introduction to Modern Biological Microscopy | 2 |
| CBIO 8314 | Basic Biological Microscopy | 1 |
| CBIO 8320 | Cancer and Development | 3 |
| CBIO 8330 | Seminar in Cell and Developmental Biology | 1 |
| CBIO 8331 | Current Topics in Developmental Biology - Journal Club | 1 |
| CBIO 8341 | Molecular Developmental Biology | 1-3 |
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| CBIO 8345 | Fundamentals of Neuroscience I: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | 4 |
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| NURO 8345 | Fundamentals of Neuroscience I: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | 4 |
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| NURO 8340 | Fundamentals of Neuroscience II: Systems Neuroscience | 4 |
| CBIO 8349 | Genetics of Model Organisms | 3 |
| BSCI 4266 | Advanced Molecular Genetics | 3 |
| BMIF 6310 | Foundations of Bioinformatics | 3 |