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Curriculum and Core Skills
Skill Sets Are Cumulative – Building And Expanding Each Term
Freshman Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• First Year Experience • Laboratory safety
• General Chemistry & lab • Use common lab equipment
• Written & Oral • Write a basic lab report
Communications I • Statistical analysis of
• Computing & Algorithm I & lab experimental data
• Calculus I • Object-oriented
• General Chemistry II & lab algorithmic design
• Computing & Algorithm II & lab • Java language
• Discrete Mathematics programming skills
• Calculus II • Quantitative reasoning
Sophomore Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• Organic Chemistry & lab • Advanced problem solving
• Computing & Algorithms III and analysis
• The Computing Professional • Advanced algorithmic design and
• Economic Principles object-oriented programming
• Human Biology & lab • Laboratory techniques for
• Intro to the Humanities biological specimens
• Intro to Social Science • Biological laboratory safety
• Organic Chemistry II & lab
State-of-the-Art
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FACILITIES
Get In The Lab
• In our Chemistry labs, you’ll learn
the fundamentals of chemical
properties and interactions — and Junior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
get a chance to perform experiments • Biochemistry I & lab • Prepare students to write
with instrumentation not seen by • Theory of Computation their thesis
most undergraduates. You will get • Written & Oral • Expand knowledge in
hands-on experience with a 400 Communication II the Humanities
MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance • Intro to Bioinformatics • Basic knowledge of DNA, RNA,
Spectrometer in your sophomore • Biostatistics I and Proteins chemistry
year as you unravel molecular • Database Systems • Knowledge of storage/retrieval of
genetic information from standard
structures of organic components. • Biostatistics II
• Free Elective Genetic Databases
• In our Life Science Labs (like Human • Technical Elective • Knowledge and use of standard
Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics, tools (BLAST, ClustalW, etc.) for
Molecular & Cellular Biology) you sequence alignment
will learn biological techniques • Knowledge and experience with
multiple sequence alignments
such as DNA mutagenesis, protein
expression and purification.
Students look at human tissues
and micro-organisms under the Senior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
microscope, dissect organisms, study • Apply knowledge to address
polymerically preserved human • Molecular Biology & lab contemporary issues
cadavers and perform • Genetics • Ability to use data acquisition &
• Information Retrieval &
simulated surgeries. Data Mining control hardware
• Our state-of-the-art computing • Advanced Humanities Elective • Solve real world problems
• Experimental design
labs are open 24/7. The PCs and • Advanced Social Science Elective • Ability to evaluate genetic material
workstations run powerful integrated • Bioinformatics Capstone in the laboratory
development environments (IDEs) • Senior Seminar • Apply bioinformatic knowledge to
• Two Free Electives
that will assist you in developing • Two Technical Electives provide phylogeneic studies
object-oriented program solutions • Culminating Undergraduate
and mobile applications. Experience
