MTSU Department of Biology

The Graduate Curriculm

Graduate courses in biology carry either a 5000 or 6000 course number. Although both 5000 and 6000 level courses count for graduate credit, no more than 30 percent of the hours required for a master's degree may derive from 5000 level courses. Candidates for the MS degree may elect an "area of specialization" within the field of biology. Those who elect to specialize must take at least nine (9) semester hours, in addition to research and thesis, in the area of specialization. Current areas of specialization include: botany (B), cell and molecular biology (C), ecology (E), genetics (G), microbiology (M), physiology (P), or zoology (Z). If an area of specialization is elected, it must be so indicated on the Research and Thesis Approval Form submitted to the Graduate Coordinator at or before the time the Candidacy Form is filed in the Graduate Office. At least nine semester hours must be taken in the declared area of specialization.

Listed below are the current graduate course offerings in biology, the term in which each course is usually offered, and the specialty areas to which each course may be applied, if any. See graduate guidelines page 5-6 for new listings.

Course #	Title	Credit Hours	When Offered	Specialization Area
5010	Embryology	4	Spring	Z
5020	Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrates	4	Fall	Z
5030	Non-Flowering Plants	4	Fall	B
5040	General Entomology	3	Fall	Z
5050	Parasitology	3	Spring	M, Z
5100	History and Philosophy of Biology	3	Spring, even years
5120	Flowering Plants	4	Spring	B
5130	Histology	4	Spring	Z, P
5140	Invertebrate Zoology	4	Fall	Z
5170	Endocrinology	3	Fall, odd years	P, Z
5180	Vertebrate Zoology	4	Fall, summer	Z
5220	Ichthyology	4	Fall, even years	Z
5240	General Ecology	4	Fall, Spring	E
5250	Limnology	4	Spring	E
5330	Biome Analysis	1-4	Summer	E
5390	Ethology	4	Spring, odd years	Z
5460	Human Genetics	3	Spring	G, Z
5500	Plant Physiology	4	Spring	B, P
5510	Food/Industrial Microbiology	4	Fall	M
5520	Plant Anatomy	4	Spring, even years	B
5550	Biotechnology	3	Fall, Spring, Summer	B,C,G,M,P,Z
5560	Neurobiology	3	Fall, even years	Z, P
5570	Principles of Toxicology	3	Spring, even years	E, P
5580	Marine Biology	4	Spring	B, E, Z
6060	Advanced Dendrology	3	Fall	B
6070	Plants and Man	3	Spring	B
6080	Advanced Mycology	4	Spring, odd years	B, M
6120	Aquatic Ecology	3	Fall, odd years	E
6130	Ornithology	3	On demand	Z
6180	Mammalogy	3	On demand	Z
6200	Speciation	3	Spring	Z
6210	Protozoology	3	On demand	Z
6220	Herpetology	3	Spring, odd years	Z
6270	Cell Metabolism	3	On demand	C, P
6290	Advanced Scanning Electron Microscopy	4	Fall
6330	Principles of Physiology	4	Fall, Spring, Summer	C, P
6350	Biostatistical Analysis	4	Fall, Spring
6360	Energy Dispersive X-ray Analysis	1	Spring
6380	Experimental Immunology	3	Fall, Spring	M, C
6390	Advanced Cell and Molecular Biology	4	Fall. Spring	C, G, P
6400	Medicinal Plants	3	Fall, even years	B
6410	Adv. Transmitting Electron Microscopy	4	Spring
6430	Clinical and Pathogenic Microbiology	4	Fall, Spring	M
6440	Advanced Virology	4	Fall	M, C
6450	Advancements in Molecular Genetics	4	Fall	M, C, G
6460	Conservation Biology (Prereq. 4240/5240)	4	Spring	E
6500	Special Problems in Biology (Internship)	4	Fall, Spring, Summer
6590	Environmental Toxicology	4	Spring	E, P
6620	Biological Research	3	Fall, Spring, Summer
6640	Thesis Research	1-6	Fall, Spring, Summer
6650	Seminar	1	Fall, Spring
6660	Seminar	2	Fall, Spring
6700	Plant-Animal Interactions	3	Fall of odd years	B, E
6710	Biostatistical Analysis II	4	On demand
6720	Advanced Animal Development	4	Spring	C, Z
6730	Adv. Microbial Physiology/Biochemistry	4	Spring, even years	M, P
6760	Bioinformatics	4	Spring	B,C,G,M,P,Z
6770	Issues in Biotechnology	2	Fall

Required for M.S.	6620	Biological Research	3
	6640	Thesis	3
	6650	Seminar	1
	6660	Seminar	2
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