Program Course Requirements

    • Program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    • Program in Biomathematics and Biostatistics
    • Program in Cancer Biology
    • Program in Cell and Regulatory Biology
    • Program in Experimental Therapeutics
    • Program in Genes and Development
    • Program in Human and Molecular Genetics
    • Program in Immunology
    • Program in Medical Physics
    • Program in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
    • Program in Molecular Carcinogenesis
    • Program in Molecular Pathology
    • Program in Neuroscience
    • Program in Virology and Gene Therapy

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Program in Immunology Course Requirements

CORE COURSES

Does not include the three tutorials taken in the first year.

Cellular

• GS06 1014 Immunology I

Molecular

• GS03 1015 Metabolic Biochemistry OR
• GS03 1024 Advanced Topics in Biochemistry [serves as a Molecular requirement AND an Elective course]

Quantitative (choose one)

• GS01 1014 Biomedical Statistics
• GS03 1102 Current Methods in Biochemistry (two semesters)
• GS11 1013 Genetics and Human Disease

Systems (choose one) [Any course from this list used to fulfill the Systems requirement, CANNOT also serve as an Elective course.]

• GS04 1063 Cancer Biology
• GS04 1073 Developmental Biology
• GS12 1254 Cell and Systems Physiology
• GS14 1017 Neuroscience

SEMINARS

• GS06 1711 Seminar in Immunobiological Research (one semester)
• GS06 1611 Advanced Topics in Immunology (one semester)

ADDITIONAL IMMUNOLOGY PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

• GS06 1102 Immunology II: Regulation of Immune Responses
• GS06 1112 Immunology III: Special Topics in Molecular Immunology

ELECTIVE COURSES (Choose one)

Immunology

• GS06 1073 Molecular Signaling in Immune Responses

Biochemistry

• GS03 1024* Advanced Topics in Biochemistry
• GS04 1023* Molecular Basis of Gene Action
• GS04 1123* Molecular Biology of Eukaryotic Cells

Virology

• GS04 1043 Virology I

Pathology

• GS12 1043 Principles in Pathology
• GS12 1063* Histology
• GS12 1134* Introduction to Histology [UT Science Park]
• GS12 1144* Introduction to Pathology [UT Science Park]
• GS04 1181 Molecular Basis of Programmed Cell Death

Microbiology

• GS07 1013* Fundamentals of Prokaryotic Physiology
• GS07 1023 Medical Microbiology - Medical Bacteriology
• GS07 1103 Genetic Analysis of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Microbes

Biology

• GS04 1063* Cancer Biology
• GS04 1083* Basic Concepts of Tumor Biology [UT Science Park]
• GS04 1133 Cancer Cell Signaling
• GS04 1203 Experimental Genetics
• GS04 1782 Topics in Extracellular Matrix
• GS14 1017* Neuroscience

*Meets a GSBS area course requirement. 

Other courses can be substituted if approved by both the student's Advisory Committee and the Graduate Studies Committee of the Program in Immunology.