Courses | MS in Physiology

• Required Courses
• Elective Courses
• Class Sizes

Required Courses

Basic course descriptions are provided below. For the most current course descriptions, please see the Graduate Catalog of courses and select the current academic year. 

Elective Courses

Fall Electives | Spring Electives | Summer Elective

Students in the MS in Physiology program must complete 10 credits of elective coursework.  We require pre-med students to take PBIO 602 Biomedical Career Pathways as one of their elective credits in the fall semester. 

• All of the elective courses listed below (categorized by the semester in which they are typically taught) are pre-approved by the Program Director.
• Students are welcome to take courses not on the pre-approved list by seeking approval from the Program Director before registering for the course; you can search the Schedule of Classes to see what is offered each semester. 
  • To gain approval, current students should email the course description to the program director.
  • Some courses may also require approval from the instructor or from the department to which it belongs (ie, Physiology students may not have registration priority for courses in other departments). 
  • Even if the program director approves a course as an elective to count toward your MS in Physiology degree, your ability to enroll in the course is at the discretion of the course instructor and the department/program to which the course belongs.

Note: Electives may not be offered every semester or could be offered in different semesters than those listed below. Check Schedule of Classes (new window) (Main Campus) for current and future semester course offerings; current students can also view the schedule on MyAccess. 

FALL SEMESTER PRE-APPROVED ELECTIVES

Note: Each elective below is offered at the instructor’s discretion and could be offered in a different semester than where it is listed below.

• PBIO602  Biomedical Career Pathways (required as elective credit for all pre-med students)
• PHAR584  Introduction to Pharmacology
• PHAR604  Medicinal Plants and Pharmacognosy
• CLTR501  Introduction to Biostatistics in Clinical Research
• MICB606  Public Policy for Scientists (Permission of MICB dept required)
• NSCI425  Topics in Neuroscience: Diseases, Research & Treatment (Taught by PhD students)
• NSCI521  Functional MRI: Theory & Practice
• NSCI558  Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration  [Not being offered Fall 2020] (Permission of Instructor Required)
• TBIO508  Cellular and Molecular aspects of the Transformed Cell (Permission of Instructor & TBIO dept required)
• TBIO523  Cancer Epigenetics

• TBIO525  Cancer Genetics *
• INNS520  Translational Neuroscience * (Permission of Instructor required)

* These courses have historically had a direct time conflict with our core courses in the fall and therefore are only available to our part-time students.

SPRING SEMESTER PRE-APPROVED ELECTIVES

Note: Each elective below is offered at the instructor’s discretion and could be offered in a different semester than where it is listed below.

• PBIO529  Human Nutrition and Health
• PBIO699  Learning Design & Science Education
• PBIO906  Research in Physiology (students must be approved by the program director)
• PHAR510  Neuropsychopharmacology (permission of instructor required)
• PHAR592  Introduction to Toxicology 
• PHAR605  Advanced Topics in Nutrition
• CLTR506  Study and Clinical Trial Design
• CLTR507  Epidemiologic Methods
• CLTR700  Aspects of Drug Development
• BCHB515  Intro to Bioinformatics
• BCHB522  Drug Targets/Drug Design
• MICB705  Science Diplomacy and World Health
• TBIO536  Cancer Pharmacology
• TBIO588  Preparing a Scientific Paper (Permission of Instructor required)
• INNS531  Neurobiology of Drug Addition  (Permission of Instructor required)

SUMMER SEMESTER PRE-APPROVED ELECTIVE

PHAR606  Human Nutrition & Obesity

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