Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the program, graduates will:

1. Describe and explain the specialized factual and theoretical concepts involved in modern biology, including the flow and regulation of genetic information and signaling in biological systems.
2. Recognize that living systems are subject to the same laws and rules of chemistry and physics as the inanimate world and understand the fundamental relationships between structure and function in biological systems.
3. Understand how organisms adapt to their surroundings in the short-term level via physiology and in the long-term via evolution.
4. Analyze the primary scientific literature, evaluate the evidence presented, and critically assess the conclusions.
5. Identify problems and questions in the life science, evaluate their importance, craft hypotheses, and select and design the appropriate rigorous experiments to test these ideas, as well as providing constructive feedback to peers on their experimental designs.
6. Conduct experiments reliably, reproducibly, and independently.
7. Analyze and interpret qualitative and quantitative data.
8. Communicate science effectively to other scientists in writing and orally.