Courses | MS in Physiology

• Required Courses
• Elective Courses
• Class Sizes

Required Courses

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. 

• Students are welcome to take courses not on the pre-approved list by seeking approval from the Program Director (and in some cases additional approval from the course’s instructor or department are required) to count a course toward the degree before registering for that 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. Also note: certain courses listed in the schedule may be cancelled due to low registration. 

FALL SEMESTER PRE-APPROVED ELECTIVES

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

• PBIO602  Biomedical Career Pathways (1cr) (required as elective credit for all pre-med students)
• PHAR584  Introduction to Pharmacology (1cr)
• CLTR501  Introduction to Biostatistics in Clinical Research (3cr)
• MICB606  Public Policy for Scientists (3cr) (Permission of Instructor & MICB dept required)
• NSCI425  Topics in Neuroscience: Diseases, Research & Treatment (3cr) (Taught by PhD students)
• NSCI521  Functional MRI: Theory & Practice (3cr)
• TBIO523  Cancer Epigenetics (3cr)
• TBIO525  Cancer Genetics * (3cr)
• INNS520  Translational Neuroscience * (2cr) (Permission of Instructor required)

* This course has historically had a direct time conflict with our core courses in the fall and therefore is 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 (2cr)
• PBIO906  Research in Physiology (2-4cr) (students must be approved by the program director)
• PHAR592  Introduction to Toxicology (1cr)
• PHAR604  Medicinal Plants and Pharmacognosy (3cr)
• PHAR605  Advanced Topics in Nutrition (3cr)
• NSCI558  Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration (3cr, permission of instructor required, must have strong background in Neuroscience)
• CLTR506  Study and Clinical Trial Design (2cr)
• CLTR507  Epidemiologic Methods (3cr)
• CLTR700  Aspects of Drug Development (3cr) (permission of CLTR department required)
• BCHB515  Intro to Bioinformatics (1cr)
• BCHB522  Drug Targets/Drug Design (2cr)
• MICB705  Science Diplomacy and World Health (2cr)
• TBIO536  Cancer Pharmacology (4cr)

SUMMER SEMESTER PRE-APPROVED ELECTIVES

• PBIO529  Human Nutrition & Health
• PBIO550 Evolutionary Medicine

Class Sizes

Below you’ll find the number of registered students in each of the core courses for the 2020-2021 academic year, as well as class sizes for electives taken by our current MS in Physiology students.

For elective courses that are not on the pre-approved list above, individual permission is required from the program director. Previous permission for a student to take a certain elective course does not guarantee future permission for a future student to take that same elective course.