Courses

The listing of a course description here does not guarantee a course’s being offered in a particular term. Please refer to the published schedule of classes on the MyBU Student Portal for confirmation a class is actually being taught and for specific course meeting dates and times.

• CAS BI 580: Progress in Ecology, Behavior, Evolution, and Marine Biology 2
  
• CAS BI 581: Seminar in Biology
  
• CAS BI 582: Seminar in Biology
  
• CAS BI 583: Seminar: Progress in Cell and Molecular Biology
  
• CAS BI 584: Seminar: Progress in Cell and Molecular Biology
  
• CAS BI 586: Ecological Genomics
  
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  • Creativity/Innovation
  • Digital/Multimedia Expression
  • Teamwork/Collaboration
• CAS BI 587: AI in Biology
  
• CAS BI 588: Project Design and Statistics in Biological Anthropology
  
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  • Quantitative Reasoning II
  • Scientific Inquiry II
  • Teamwork/Collaboration
• CAS BI 589: Neural Impacts on Tumorigenesis
  
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  • Oral and/or Signed Communication
  • Research and Information Literacy
  • Scientific Inquiry II
• CAS BI 591: Bio-Optical Oceanography
  
• CAS BI 593: Marine Physiology and Climate Change
  
• CAS BI 594: Topics in Biology 5
  
• CAS BI 595: Master's Research in Biology
  
• CAS BI 597: Graduate Directed Study in Biology
  
• CAS BI 598: Neural Circuits
  
• CAS BI 599: Physiology of the Synapse
  
• CAS CH 550: Materials Chemistry: Hard Materials
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: General Chemistry 2 (CAS CH 110 or CH 112 or equivalent) or consent of instructor. This course will focus on the structure, synthesis, properties, and applications of solid-state materials. The main topics in this class cover the bonding in solids; formation of crystals; basic crystallography; electron diffraction; defects, phase transformation; general principles about the atomic level growth and characterizations of solid materials.
• CAS CH 612: Separation Methods in Chemistry and Biochemistry
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCH301) or consent of instructor. - Graduate Prerequisites: (CASCH301) or consent of instructor. - Methods of chemical separation in chemistry and biochemistry, including gas, high performance liquid, thin layer, ion exchange, size exclusion (gel filtration), affinity chromatography, and electrophoresis. Theory of chromatography, instrumentation, and experimental considerations. Three hours lecture.
• CAS CH 623: Chemical Biology
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: (GRSCH621) (GRSCH622 recommended), or consent of instructor. - Research at the chemistry-biology interface, including directed evolution, unnatural amino acid mutagenesis, chemical genetics, proteomics, and fluorescent reporters of enzyme function. Reading, discussing and evaluating the current chemical biology literature is a significant component of the course.
• CAS CH 624: Macromolecular Structure Determination
  Graduate Prerequisites: CH/BI 421; or equivalent, or consent of instructor - This course covers the determination of structures of biological macromolecules including RNA, DNA, and proteins. Topics include macromolecular assemblies and symmetry, crystal forms, diffraction, phase determination, data acquisition, model building and refinement, model analysis and homology modeling.