MEES Graduate Program

Env. Mol. Biology/Biotechnology : Approved Course List

1. One Course in Molecular Biology/Genetics (600 level, 3-4 credits)

Course	Title	Instructor	Campus	Info
BIOL 611	Microbial Genetics & Physiology (3 credits)	Schreier	UMBC	Fall Even
BIOL 614	Eukaryotic Genetics/Mol. Biology (4 credits)	Farabaugh	UMBC	Spring
BIOL 426/626	Approaches to Molecular Biology (4 credits)	Craig	UMBC	Fall
BIOL 434/634	Microbial Molecular Genetics (4 credits)	Wolf	UMBC	Spring
MICB 780	Advanced Microbial Genetics (3 credits)	Steward	UMCP	Spring
MEES 698W	Mol. Techniques in Env. Science (lab) (3 credits)	Mitchelmore/Suzuki	CBL	Winter Odd
MMCB 716	Applied Bioinformatics (3 credits)	DasSarma/Hansen	UMB	Fall
BIOL 495	Introduction to Bioinformatics (3 credits)	Maeder/Robb	UMBC	Spring Odd

2. One course in Cell Biology/Physiology (600 level, 2-4 credits)

Course	Title	Instructor	Campus	Info
BIOL 620	Adv. Topics in Cell Biology (4 credits)		UMBC
BIOL 620	Cell Biology (3 credits)	Goode	UMCP
BIOL 657	Phys. of Marine/Estuarine Organisms (4 credits)	Cronin	UMBC
BIOL 688F	Fish Physiology (3 credits)		UMES
BIOL 611	Microbial Genetics & Physiology (3 credits)	Schreier	UMBC	Fall Even

3. One course in Ecology (400 or 600 level, 3-4 credits)

Course	Title	Instructor	Campus	Info
BIOL 600	Marine/Estuarine Ecology (4 credits)		UMES
BIOL 612	Animal Ecology (3 credit)		UMES
BIOL 661	Community Ecology (4 credits)		UMES
BIOL 663	Ecology of Marine Communities (4 credits)		UMCP
BSCI 466	Experimental Aquatic Ecology (3 credits)	Palmer	UMCP
MEES 631	Fish Ecology (3 credits)	Miller/Sector	CBL	Spring/Even
MEES 698J	Microbial Ecology (3 credits)	DiRuggerio	UMCP	Fall
MEES 698A	Aquatic Microbial Ecology (3 credits)	Crump/Suzuki	CBL/IVN	Spring Even
MEES 698N	Wildlife Ecology (3 credits)	Gates	AL/IVN	Fall
MEES 698Q	Stream Ecology (3 credits)	Morgan	AL

4. One course in Advanced Chemistry/Biochemistry (400 or 600 level, 2-4 credits)

Course	Title	Instructor	Campus	Info
BCHM 461	Biochemistry 1 (3 credits)		UMCP
BCHM 462	Biochemistry 2 (3 credits)		UMCP
BCHM 464	Biochemistry Lab (2 credits)		UMCP
BCHM 465	Biochemistry 3 (3 credits)		UMCP
BCHM 671	Protein Chemistry & Enz. Catalysi (3 credits)	Armstrong	UMCP
CHEM 631	Chemistry of Proteins (3 credits)		UMBC
CHEM 642	Physical Biochemistry (3 credits)		UMBC
CHEM 644	Molecular Modeling (3 credits)	Bush	UMBC
CHEM 682	Protein-Nucleic Acid Int. (3 credits)		UMBC
BIOL 430	Biological Chemistry (4 credits)		UMBC
MEES 698B	Practical Protein Chemistry (3 credits)	Ahmed	COMB	Fall
BCHM 671	Protein Chem. & Enz. Catalysis (3 credits)		UMCP	Fall
CHEM 438	Comp. Biochemistry 2 (4 credits)	Creighton	UMBC	Spring
CHEM 635	Biochem. of Complex Carb. (3 credits)	Bush	UMBC	Fall Even

5. A course from another MEES AOS (400 or 600 level from appr. list, 2-4 credits)

Course	Title	Instructor	Campus	Info
BIOL 414	Eukaryotic Genetics & Mol. Biology (4 credits)	Farabaugh	UMBC
BIOL 426	Approaches to Molecular Biology (4 credits)	Craig	UMBC
BIOL 434	Microbial Molecular Genetics (4 credits)	Wolf	UMBC
CHEM 432	Advanced Biochemistry (3 credits)		UMBC
CHEM 433	Biochemistry of Nucleic Acids (4 credits)	Karpel	UMBC
CHEM 437	Comp. Biochemistry 1 (4 credits)		UMBC
CHEM 632	Advanced Biochemistry (3 credits)		UMBC
CHEM 633	Biochemistry of Nucleic Acids (3 credits)	Karpel	UMBC
CHEM 635	Biochem. of Complex Carb. (3 credits)	Bush	UMBC
CHEM 670	Adv. Biochemistry (3 credits)		UMBC
MEES 661	Physics of Mar./Est. Environments (3 credits)	Sanford/Boicourt	HP
MEES 711	Modeling Phys. & Chem. Proc. Nat. Waters (3 credits)	Baker	CBL	Spring Odd
MEES 743	Aquatic Toxicology (3 credits)	Mitchelmore	CBL/IVN	Spring Even

6. One course in Environmental Management, Policy, Ethics or Philosophy of Science (400 or 600 level, 2-4 credits)

Course	Title	Instructor	Campus	Info
BMGT 630	Entrepreneurship (3 credits)		UMCP
ENCH 660	Regulatory Issues in Biotech. (3 credits)		UMBC/IVN	Fall Odd
ENVS 684	Natural Resource Management (3 credits)		UMES
MEES 682	Fishery Science and Management (3 credits)		CBL
MEES 641	Env. Toxicology (3 credits)		UMCP	Fall
MEES 608E	Theories of Science/Values (1 credit)	Tenore	CBL/IVN	Summer
MEES 698A	Sci. for Env. Management (3 credits)	Boesch/Dennison	HPL/IVN
MEES 698D	Intro. to Env. Toxicology (3 credits)	Wright	CBL/IVN	Fall Odd

7. One course in Statistics/Biostatistics (600 level for Ph.D. or 400 level for M.S.)

Course	Title	Instructor	Campus	Info
BIOM 601	Biostatistics 1 (4 credits)		UMCP
BIOM 602	Biostatistics 2 (3 credits)		UMCP
BIOM 603	Biostatistics 3 (3 credits)		UMCP
MPHY 630	Biostatistics (3 credits)	McCarthy/Murphy	UMB	Fall
NACS 630	Fundamentals in Biostatistics (3 credits)		UMB	Fall
PREV 620	Principles of Biostatistics (3 credits)		UMB	Fall
STAT 414/614	Env. Statistics (3 credits)	Neerchal/Bradley	UMBC	Spring

8. One graduate-level seminar for each year in residence

Course	Title	Instructor	Campus	Info
MEES 608D	Scientific Writing & Comm. (1 credit)	Kennedy	HP/IVN	Spring
MEES 608S	Scientific Presentation (2 credits)	Sowers	COMB	Fall Odd
MEES 608L	Mol. Microbial Ecology (2 credits)	Hill/Chen	COMB	Spring
MEES 608G	Mol. Microbiology (1 credit)	Belas	COMB