Courses

• GRS MA 992: Directed Study: Statistical Inference and Probability
  
• GRS MB 697: A Bridge to Knowledge: A Practical Seminar for First-Year Graduate Students in Biology
  A seminar for first-year biology and MCBB graduate students. Basic pedagogical theory and professional development topics are covered. The course is intended to help students become effective teachers and members of the graduate community. Also offered as GRS BI 697.
• GRS MB 701: Graduate Readings In Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry
  Library research on well-defined subjects determined in consultation with faculty member.
• GRS MB 702: Graduate Readings In Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry
  Library research on well-defined subjects determined in consultation with faculty member.
• GRS MB 721: Graduate Biochemistry
  Introductory biochemistry course that in one semester covers the major principles of biochemistry; proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids, and metabolism. Emphasis on how knowledge was derived and the theoretical principles governing biochemistry.
• GRS MB 722: Advanced Biochemistry
  An advanced treatment of the underlying theories, principles, mechanisms, and chemistry of current biochemical investigation. Selected topics may include enzyme mechanics, protein structure and folding, bioinformatics, signal transduction, nucleic-acid protein interactions, techniques in proteomics, and genetic disease mechanisms.
• GRS MB 907: Research in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry
  Research in a selected topic in molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry.
• GRS MB 908: Research in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry.
  Research in a selected topic in molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry.
• GRS NE 500: Frontiers of Neuroscience
  Journal club/seminar series reviewing and discussing key papers including those of GPN seminar series distinguished lecturers. Students are required to attend this seminar series throughout their graduate career, but only a total of 4 credits counts toward the degree.
• GRS NE 501: Frontiers of Neuroscience
  Journal club/seminar series reviewing and discussing key papers including those of GPN seminar series distinguished lecturers. Students are required to attend this seminar series throughout their graduate career, but only a total of 4 credits counts toward the degree.
• GRS NE 741: Neural Systems: Functional Circuit Analysis
  An in-depth survey of powerful new approaches for understanding nervous system function, linking neural activity to behavior. Topics include anatomical connectivity, behavioral methods, and both recording and manipulating the activity of neural populations. Also offered as GRS BI 741.
• GRS NE 742: Neural Systems: Cognition and Behavior
  Surveys current neuroscience research. The goal is to develop an understanding of nervous system function in animals and humans, linking cellular and systems level neural circuitry to cognition and behavior.
• GRS NE 800: Methods in Neuroscience
  Research experiences directed by GPN faculty for first-year graduate students. Mentors who have funded research projects provide students with a large number of potential laboratories from which to choose where they will conduct their thesis research.
• GRS NE 801: Methods in Neuroscience
  Research experiences directed by GPN faculty for first-year graduate students. Mentors who have funded research projects provide students with a large number of potential laboratories from which to choose where they will conduct their thesis research.
• GRS NE 901: Directed Study in Neuroscience
  For doctoral students in the Program in Neuroscience. Dissertation research under the guidance of a Neuroscience faculty member.
• GRS NE 902: Directed Study in Neuroscience
  For doctoral students in the Program in Neuroscience. Dissertation research under the guidance of a Neuroscience faculty member.
• GRS PH 606: Aristotle II
  A close reading of Aristotle's writings on practical philosophy (i.e., the Nicomachean Ethics and the Politics) and of his philosophy of art in the Poetics, focusing on the nature of human happiness and the good life, the question of the best form of political government, and the function of art for life.
• GRS PH 612: Philosophy of the Enlightenment
  A critical examination of that family of philosophical and political movements that called itself "the Enlightenment." Students analyze key texts by Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Smith, Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, Jefferson, Madison, Kant, and Hegel.
• GRS PH 613: Kant
  A study of Kant's critical philosophy, focusing on one or more of his works.
• GRS PH 615: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
  Study of the important themes in the philosophy of Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche.

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