BIOL 489W - Advanced Research Methods

2 or 4 credit(s)
Teams of students carry out original research in collaboration with a member of the Biology faculty. Course involves critically reading, analyzing, and synthesizing primary literature in the research area; generating a novel data set (via experiments, studies, or data mining of large public data sets); and analyzing and interpreting the data. Research area will vary, and depends on faculty expertise.
Core Requirement(s): Counts as Core requirement: Writing in the Discipline.
Prerequisite(s): BIOL 314, and 2 of the following BIOL 313, BIOL 315, BIOL 317. 4 additional upper division BIOL credits (excluding BIOL 313, 315, and 317) and declared Biology major. Instructor’s Consent required.