One significant advantage to attending a large university includes the ability to take courses taught by many other departments.
The following courses are hosted by other departments at Purdue, and are NOT required, but are highly recommended by graduate students as courses which enhanced their professional and academic development.
For All Areas | Biophysics, Biochemistry, and Structural Biology | Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology | Neurology and Physiology | Ecology, Evolution, and Population Biology
For All Areas:
- BTNY 660 – Scientific Writing (3 credits): Offered in spring semester. The course is open to students from all areas, and actually enrolls grad students from the colleges of Science, Agriculture, and Engineering on a regular basis. This course focuses are manuscript writing for an ongoing thesis/dissertation project.
- EAS 591A – Writing Successful Science Proposals (3 credits): Offered in the fall semester. This course focuses on teach graduate students how to write the scientific proposals that are part of the applications for major pre-doctoral fellowships such as those offered by the NSF and the Hertz Foundation.
- MCMP 490G – Grant Writing (1
credit): Teaches a student to write a grant in the style of the
NIH-RO1. MCMP graduate students must write such a grant as part of
their preliminary exam and this course is provided to teach those
skills.
- STAT 511 – Statistical Methods
- STAT 512 – Applied Linear Regression
- STAT 514 – Design of Experiments
Biophysics, Biochemistry, Structural Biology:
Biomedical engineering courses for Fall 2007 courses (PDF file)
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BME 595U – Nonlinear Dynamics of Biological Systems (3 credits): Offered in the Fall semester.
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CS 590V – Biomolecular Simulation (3 credits): Offered in the Spring semester.
- CHM 615 – Principles of NMR Spectroscopy (3 credits): Offered in the Fall semester.
- CHM 579 – Computational Chemistry (3 credits): Offered in the Spring semester.
- PHYS 570B – Introduction to Biophysics (3 credits): Offered in the Fall semester. Will teach the subject of biophysics based on physical principles and mathematics. This will be a course that everyone wanting to specialize in biophysics should take.
Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology:
Neurobiology and Physiology:
Ecology, Evolution, and Population Biology:
- FNR 505 – Molecular Ecology and Evolution
- FNR 511/ANSC 511 – Population Genetics
- FNR 547 – Vertebrate Population Dynamics
- FNR 598E – Landscape Ecology
