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Masters of Biomanufacturing and Biotechnology:
Curriculum

The PSM curriculum requires 32-credits of coursework and 7-credits of internship totaling 39 total credits. Review the details below by semester, including electives.

Graduate-level prerequisites for each course are listed. All of the courses with the BUS prefix are online courses.

Overall curriculum

Semester 1 (Fall) 10 credits:

CBE 504 Fundamentals of Biochemical Engineering; Credits: 3 (3-0-0); offered: Fall

BUS 500 Business Systems and Processes; 2 (2-0-0); offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

MIP 300 General Microbiology; 3 (3-0-0); offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

BUS 620 Leadership and Teams; Credits: 2 (2-0-0); offered: Fall; Prerequisite: Bus 500 may be concurrent

Semester 2 (Spring) 11 credits:

CBE 522 Bioseparation Processes; Credits: 3 (2-2-0); offered: Spring, Fall

BUS 601 Quantitative Business Analysis; Credits: 2 (2-0-0); offered: Spring; Prerequisite: BUS 500 may be concurrent

Bio/Engineering Elective*; Credits 3 (3-0-0)

Bio/Science Elective°; Credits 3 (3-0-0)

Semester 3 (Fall) 9 credits:

CBE 505 Biochemical Engineering Laboratory; Credits: 1 (0-3-0); offered: Fall; prerequisite: CBE 504, may be taken concurrently

BUS 614 Accounting Concepts; Credits: 2 (2-0-0); offered: Fall, Spring, Summer; Prerequisite: BUS 500 may be concurrent

Bio/Engineering Elective†; Credits 3 (3-0-0)

Bio/Science Elective‡; Credits 3 (3-0-0)

Semester 4 (Spring) 9 credits:

CBE 687 Internship§; Credits: Variable (0-0-0); offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

BUS Elective#; Credits: 2

Electives

Please review noted symbols in the previous section.

Spring

* Select a Spring semester Bio/Engineering elective from:

CBE 570 Biomolecular Engineering/Synthetic Biology; Credits: 3 (3-0-0); offered: Spring

CBE 560 Engineering of Protein Expression Systems; Credits: 3 (3-0-0); offered: Spring

BIOM 525 Cell and Tissue Engineering; Credits: 3 (3-0-0); offered: Spring

° Select at least three elective credits of Spring semester Bio/Science:

BC 465 Molecular Regulation of Cell Function; Credits: 3 (3-0-0); offered: Spring

BC 565 Molecular Regulation of Cell Function; Credits: 4 (3-0-1); offered: Spring

BC 571 Quantitative Biochemistry; Credits: 1 (1-0-0); offered: Spring

MIP 550 Microbial and Molecular Genetics Laboratory; Credits: 4 (2-6-0); offered: Spring

CHEM 521 Principles of Chemical Biology; Credits: 3 (3-0-0); offered Spring

CM 515 Computational Cell and Molecular Biology; Credits 2 (1-2-0); offered Spring

DSCI 336 Data Graphics and Visualization; Credits 1 (1-0-0); offered Spring

FTEC 375 Introduction to Fermentation Unit Operations; Credits 4 (3-0-1); offered Spring

FTEC 572 Food Biotechnology; Credits 2 (2-0-0); offered Spring odd years

STAR 511 Design and Data Analysis for Researchers; Credits 4 (3-0-1); offered Fall, Spring, Summer

§ Students must take a minimum of 7 credits of CBE 687

# Choose a business elective from among:

BUS 626 Managing Human Capital; Credits: 2 (2-0-0); offered: Spring

BUS 655 Marketing Management; Credits: 2 (2-0-0); offered: Fall, Spring; Prerequisite: BUS 500, may be taken concurrently

BUS 640 Financial Principles and Practice; Credits: 2 (2-0-0); offered: Fall, Spring; Prerequisite: BUS 601 and BUS 614.

Fall

† Select a Fall semester Bio/Engineering elective from:

CBE 540/CIVE 540 Advanced Biological Wastewater Processing; Credits: 3 (3-0-0); offered: Fall

BIOM 422 Quantitative Systems and Synthetic Biology; Credits: 3 (3-0-0); offered: Fall

BIOM 533/CIVE 533 Biomolecular Tools for Engineers; Credits: 3 (3-0-0); offered: Fall

BIOM 526/ECE 526 Biological Physics; Credits: 3 (3-0-0); offered: Fall

‡ Select at least three elective credits of Fall semester Bio/Science:

BC 411 Physical Biochemistry; Credits: 4 (3-0-1); offered: Fall

BC 463 Molecular Genetics; Credits: 4 (3-0-0); offered: Fall

BC 563 Molecular Genetics; Credits: 4 (3-0-1); offered: Fall

BC 512 Principles of Macromolecular Structure; Credits: 1 (1-0-0); offered: Fall

DSCI 510 Linux as a Computational Platform; Credits: 1 (1-0-0); offered: Fall

DSCI 511 Genomics Data Analysis in Python; Credits: 2 (1-0-1); offered: Fall

MIP 450 Microbial Genetics; Credits: 3 (3-0-0); offered: Fall

MIP 545 Microbial Metagenomics/Genomics Data Analysis; Credits 2 (2-0-0); offered Fall; Prerequisites DSCI 510 and STAR511

MIP 565 / BZ 565 Next Generation Sequencing Platform/Libraries; Credits 1 (0-2-0); offered Fall

MIP 570 Functional Genomics; Credits: 3 (2-2-0); offered: Fall

MIP 611 Advanced Microbiological Research Methods; Credits: 4 (2-0-2); offered Fall

MIP 613 Applied Microbiology and Virology; Credits: 4 (4-0-0); offered Fall

MIP 616 Modern Molecular Biology for Microbiologists; Credits: 4 (3-0-1); offered Fall

CHEM 522 Methods of Chemical Biology; Credits: 2 (2-0-0); offered Fall

SOCR 455 Microbiomes of Soil Systems; Credits: 3 (3-0-0); offered Fall

BSPM 740 / SOCR 740 Plant Molecular Genetics; Credits 3 (3-0-0); offered Fall

FTEC 350 Fermentation Microbiology; Credits 3 (3-0-0); offered Fall

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