BIOINFORMATICS PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
General Requirements & Required Courses

GENERAL Requirements
  1. A minimum of 93 credit hours must be taken including:
    1. 21 hours of College of IS&T Requirements,
    2. 20 hours of Mathematics Requirements,
    3. 16 hours of Biology Requirements,
    4. 20 hours of Chemistry Requirements and,
    5. 16 hours of Bioinformatics Requirements.

COLLEGE of IS&T Requirements

CIST 1400   Intro to Computer Programming   3 Credit Hours
CSCI 1620   Intro to Computer Science II   3 Credit Hours
CSCI 2710   Intro to Digital Design Principles   3 Credit Hours
CSCI 3320   Data Structures   3 Credit Hours
CSCI 4850   Intro to Software Engineering   3 Credit Hours
ISQA 4890   Data Warehousing and Data Mining   3 Credit Hours
OR  
CSCI 4150   Graph Theory & Applications   3 Credit Hours

MATHEMATICS Requirements

MATH 1950   Calculus I   5 Credit Hours
MATH 1960   Calculus II   5 Credit Hours
MATH 1970   Calculus III   4 Credit Hours
MATH 2040   Finite Discrete Math for IS&E   3 Credit Hours
OR  
MATH 2030   Discrete Mathematics   3 Credit Hours
STAT 3800   Applied Engineering Probabilities and Stats   3 Credit Hours

BIOLOGY Requirements

BIOL 1450   Biology I    5 Credit Hours
BIOL 2140   Genetics    4 Credit Hours
BIOL 3020   Molecular Biology of the Cell   3 Credit Hours
BIOL 4130   Molecular Genetics    4 Credit Hours
OR  
BIOL 4140   Cellular Biology    4 Credit Hours (spring only)

CHEMISTRY Requirements

CHEM 1180   General Chemistry I   3 Credit Hours
CHEM 1184   General Chemistry I Lab   1 Credit Hours
CHEM 1190   General Chemistry II   3 Credit Hours
CHEM 1194   General Chemistry II Lab    1 Credit Hours
CHEM 2250   Organic Chemistry I   3 Credit Hours
CHEM 2260   Organic Chemistry II   3 Credit Hours
CHEM 2274   Organic Chemistry Lab   2 Credit Hours
CHEM 4650   Biochemistry I   3 Credit Hours (fall only)
CHEM 4654   Biochemistry I Lab   3 Credit Hours (fall only)

BIOINFORMATICS Requirements

BIOI 1000   Intro to Bioinformatics   3 Credit Hours (fall only)
BIOI 3000   Applied Bioinformatics   3 Credit Hours (spring only)
BIOI 4860   Bioinformatics Algorithms   3 Credit Hours (fall only)
BIOI 4870   Dbase Search & Pattern Discovery in Bioinformatics   3 Credit Hours (spring only)
BIOI 4960   Seminar (Colloquium) in Bioinformatics   1 Credit Hours
BIOI 4970   Senior Project in Bioinformatics   3 Credit Hours


* Student is accountable for prerequisites of all courses listed.
* For a list of required electives, see here.