Appendix C: List of Current Approved Elective Courses
All courses mentioned in the handbook are approved elective courses independent of the selected track. This table summarizes these courses by department. Please check The Ohio State University Course Catalog for updated course offerings.
If you do not see an elective you would like to take on this list, please reach out to biophysics@osu.edu.
(*Meets the Biophysics Data Analysis/Statistics requirement)
| Department | Course Number | Course Name | Credits | Term |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anatomy | ANATOMY 6600 | Human Embryology | 2 | AU |
| Anatomy | ANATOMY 6700 | Human Histology | 4 | SP |
| Anatomy | ANATOMY 6800 | Human Neuroanatomy | 4 | SP |
| Biochemistry | BIOCHEM 5613 | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I | 3 | AU SP |
| Biochemistry | BIOCHEM 5614 | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II | 3 | AU |
| Biochemistry | BIOCHEM 5615 | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology III | 3 | SP |
| Biochemistry | BIOCHEM 5621 | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Laboratory | 4 | AU SP |
| Biochemistry | BIOCHEM 5721 | Physical Biochemistry I | 3 | AU |
| Biochemistry | BIOCHEM 5722 | Physical Biochemistry II | 3 | SP |
| Biochemistry | BIOCHEM 6701 | Molecular Biology | 3 | AU |
| Biochemistry | BIOCHEM 6761 | Macromolecular Structure and Function | 3 | AU |
| Biochemistry | BIOCHEM 6762 | Enzymes | 1.5 | SP |
| Biochemistry | BIOCHEM 6763 | Membranes | 1.5 | SP |
| Biochemistry | BIOCHEM 6765.02 | Physical Biochemistry | 3 | SP |
| Biomedical Engineering | BIOMEDE 5001 | Cardiovascular Bioengineering | 3 | AU |
| Biomedical Engineering | BIOMEDE 6170 | Microscopy in Biomechanics | 3 | SP |
| Biophysics | BIOPHYS 6000 | Scientific Writing | 1 | SU |
| Biophysics | BIOPHYS 6702 | Advanced Experimental Methods in Biophysics | 2 | AU |
| Biophysics | BIOPHYS 7600 | First Year Orientation | 1 | AU |
| Biophysics | BIOPHYS 7891 | Biophysics Seminar | 1 | AU SP |
| Biophysics | BIOPHYS 7990 | MLS Seminar | 1 | AU SP |
| Biomedical Informatics | BMI 5730 | Introduction to Bioinformatics | 3 | AU SP |
| Chemistry | CHEM 5420 | Spectroscopy of Organic Compounds | 1.5 | SP |
| Chemistry | CHEM 6120 | Analytical Data Treatment – Statistical and Numerical Analysis | 1.5 | AU |
| Chemistry | CHEM 6510 | Quantum Mechanics and Spectroscopy | 1.5 | AU |
| Chemistry | CHEM 6520 | Thermodynamics | 1.5 | AU |
| Chemistry | CHEM 6530 | Kinetics | 1.5 | AU |
| Chemistry | CHEM 7150 | Mass Spectrometry | 3 | AU |
| Chemistry | CHEM 7160 | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy | 3 | AU |
| Chemistry | CHEM 7470 | Essentials of Computational Chemistry | 1.5 | SP |
| Chemistry | CHEM 7520 | Advanced Quantum Mechanics and Spectroscopy | 3 | SP |
| Chemistry | CHEM 7550 | Statistical Thermodynamics | 3 | SP |
| Computer Science and Engineering | CSE 5242 | Advanced Database Systems | 3 | AU |
| Computer Science and Engineering | CSE 5243 | Introduction to Data Mining | 3 | AU SP |
| Computer Science and Engineering | CSE 5321 | Automata and Formal Languages | 2 | AU SP |
| Computer Science and Engineering | CSE 5331 | Data Structures and Algorithms | 2 | AU SP |
| Computer Science and Engineering | CSE 5361 | Numerical Methods | 3 | SP |
| Computer Science and Engineering | CSE 5442 | High Performance Computing and Machine Learning | 3 | AU |
| Computer Science and Engineering | CSE 5523 | Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition | 3 | AU SP |
| Computer Science and Engineering | CSE 5542 | Real-Time Rendering | 3 | AU SP |
| Computer Science and Engineering | CSE 5544 | Introduction to Data Visualization | 3 | AU SP |
| Computer Science and Engineering | CSE 6321 | Computability and Complexity | 3 | SP |
| Computer Science and Engineering | CSE 6331 | Algorithms I | 3 | AU SP |
| Computer Science and Engineering | CSE 6332 | Algorithms II | 3 | AU SP |
| Computer Science and Engineering | CSE 6520 | Foundations of Artificial Intelligence for Non-Majors | 3 | AU |
| Computer Science and Engineering | CSE 6521 | Artificial Intelligence | 3 | AU |
| Electrical & Computer Engineering | ECE 5011 | Antennas | 3 | SP |
| Electrical & Computer Engineering | ECE 5206 | Medical Imaging and Processing | 3 | SP |
| Electrical & Computer Engineering | ECE 5460 | Image Processing | 3 | AU |
| Electrical & Computer Engineering | ECE 6010 | Electromagnetic Field Theory | 3 | AU |
| Mathematics | MATH 5101 | Linear Mathematics I | 3 | AU |
| Mathematics | MATH 5102 | Linear Mathematics II | 3 | SP |
| Mathematics | MATH 6601 | Numerical Methods in Scientific Computing I | 4 | AU |
| Materials Science and Engineering | MATSCEN 6740 | Practical Scanning Electron Microscopy Lab | 2 | AU SP |
| Materials Science and Engineering | MATSCEN 6741 | Practical Transmission Electron Microscopy Lab | 2 | AU SP |
| Microbiology | MICRO 5161 | Introduction to Computational Genomics | 3 | AU |
| Molecular Genetics | MOLGEN 5607 | Cell Biology | 3 | AU SP |
| Molecular Genetics | MOLGEN 5608 | Genes and Development | 3 | SP |
| Molecular Genetics | MOLGEN 5701 | DNA Transcations and Gene Regulation | 3 | AU |
| Molecular Genetics | MOLGEN 5715 | Developmental Genetics | 2 | SP |
| Neuroscience | NEUROSC 7001 | Foundations in Neuroscience I | 4 | AU |
| Neuroscience | NEUROSC 7002 | Foundations in Neuroscience II | 4 | SP |
| Physics | PHYS 5400 | Electricity and Magnetism I | 4 | SP |
| Physics | PHYS 5401 | Electricity and Magnetism II | 4 | SP |
| Physics | PHYS 5500 | Quantum Mechanics | 4 | AU |
| Physics | PHYS 6809 | Topics in Biophysics | 4 | AU |
| Physiology and Cell Biology | PHYSIO 6101 | Advanced Human Physiology I | 3 | AU |
| Physiology and Cell Biology | PHYSIO 6102 | Advanced Human Physiology II | 3 | SP |
| Statistics | STAT 5301 | Intermediate Data Analysis I | 4 | SU AU SP |
| Statistics | STAT 5302* | Intermediate Data Analysis II | 3 | SP |
| Statistics | STAT 6201* | Mathematical Statistics | 4 | AU |
| Statistics | STAT 6410* | Design and Analysis of Experiments | 4 | SP |
| Statistics | STAT 6450* | Applied Regression Analysis | 4 | AU SP |
| Statistics | STAT 6500* | Statistical Machine Learning | 3 | SP |