Sample Courses in the Life Science Competency Area

Courses provide graduate training in biology, anatomy, and/or physiology – chosen in consultation with mentoring committee to be most appropriate for each student’s research interests.

Purdue West Lafayette Courses

These courses CAN NOT be used on the plan of study: 

  • Seminar Courses
  • Methodology/laboratory courses
  • ENE (Engineering Education) Courses
  • CS 515-- Numerical Linear Algebra
  • PSY 600--Statistical Inference
  • PSY 601--Correlation and Experimental Data
  • SLHS 502--Fundamentals of Speech Production and Perception
  • SOC 573--Human Side of Medicine (for thesis students; pmp students are allowed to take it)
  • STAT 503--Stat Methods Biology
  • STAT 511--Stat Methods
  • STAT 512--Applied Regression Analysis
  • STAT 516--Basic Probability and Application (for thesis students; pmp students are allowed to take it)
Example of Acceptable Courses Course Name
BCHM 56300 General Biochemistry
BIOL 51600 Molecular Biol Cancer
BIOL 52900 Bacterial Physiology
BIOL 53300 Medical Microbiology
BIOL 53700 Immunobiology
BIOL 53800 Mol Cell & Deve Neuro
BIOL 54100 Molec Genetics Of Bact
BIOL 56200 Neural Systems
BIOL 59200 Evolution Of Behavior
BIOL 59500 Methods & Measurements in Biophysical Chemistry
BIOL 60200 Cellular Neurobiology
BIOL 62000 Adv Top Euk Cell Biol
BME 51000 Neural Mech Health & Disease
BME 54200 Cell and Tissue Mechanics
BME 55100 Tissue Engineering
BME 55600 Intro to Clinical Medicine 
BME 59500 Bone Biology
BME 59500 Surgery & Instrument Syst Neuro
BME 59500 Regenerative Biol/Tiss Repair
BME 59500 Stem Cell Technologies
BME 59500 VR Anatomy
BME 68300 Polymers Biomed&Pharm Systems
BME 69500 Biophysical Methods
BME 69500 Cardiovascular BME & Imaging
BME 69500 Hallmarks of Metastasis
BME 69500 (ABE 69100) Quantitative Systems Biology
BME 695 (PSY 692) Special Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience
BMS 53400  Systemic Mammalian Physiology
BMS 60200 Domestic Animal Physiology
CHM 57900 Computational Chemistry
CHM 63200 Membrane: Struct/Fntn 
CHM 63400 Biochem Struct Aspects
CHM 64800 Bioinorganic Chemistry
CHM 65100 Adv Organic Chemistry
CHM 65200 Synthetic Organic Chem
CHM 69600 BioNanotechnology
CHM 69600 Chemical Biology
HK 59000 Neuroscience of Mvmt Disorders
HSCI 53400 Applied Health Physics
HSCI 54000 Radiation Biology
HSCI 54700 Fundamentals of Epidemiology
HSCI 56000 Toxicology
HSCI 57500 Introduction to Environmental Health
IPPH 58300 Adv Biopharmaceutics
MCMP 57000 Basic Principles of Chemical Action on Biological Systems
PSY 51300 Intro to Computational Cognitive Neuroscience 
PSY 60300 Psychopharmacology
PSY 61710 Special Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience
SLHS 50100 Neural Bases of Speech and Hearing
SLHS 50401 The Auditory Periphery
SLHS 50601 Neural Bases of Hearing
SLHS 56100 Medical Audiology

Purdue Indianapolis Courses

Example of Acceptable Courses Course Name
BME 54400 Muskulosketetal Biology and Mechanics
BME 59500 Cancer Engineering
BME 59500 Cellular Electrophysiology
BME 59500 Cellular Mechanotransduction
BME 59500 Neural Engineering
BME 59500 Polymers for BME Application
BME 59500 Tissue Engineering
BME 59500 Vascular Biomechanics