Required Core Courses
7-8 courses, 20-23 credit hours (in parentheses)
Statistical reasoning - one of the following pairs of courses (or equivalent prior coursework)
Biostatistics 601 Probability and Distribution Theory (4) + Biostatistics 602 Biostatistical
Inference (4)
Statistics 425 Introduction to Probability (3) + Statistics 426 Introduction to Theoretical
Statistics (3)
Prerequisites: Multivariable calculus and linear algebra.
Computation in biomedicine - one of the following courses (or equivalent prior coursework):
Biostatistics 615 Statistical Computing (3)
Bioinformatics 575 Programming Laboratory in Bioinformatics (3)
Human Genetics 551 Computational Genetics (3)
Human genetics - following two courses (or equivalent prior coursework):
Human Genetics 545 Molecular, Cellular, and Organismal Genetics (3)
Human Genetics 546 Genetics in Human Biology and Disease (4)
Prerequisite: Bioinformatics 523 (3), Epidemiology 515 (3), Biology 305 (3), or
consent of instructor.