BIOL 489 - 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. Instructor’s Consent required.

Prerequisite(s): BIOL 312, BIOL 313, BIOL 314, 8 additional upper division BIOL and declared biology major.