Curriculum and Requirements
The Immunology Graduate Program offers complete didactic and laboratory studies, giving students the expertise and skills that are necessary to conduct original research resulting in a significant contribution to the field of immunology.
Tutorial Laboratory Experience
New students are required to participate in the tutorial laboratory experience during their first year. Tutorials allow students to conduct biomedical research under the guidance of a faculty member over a 10-week session. Students must complete three tutorials with three different faculty members. This 30-week period introduces students to a variety of research environments and allows students to choose an advisor, a GSBS faculty member who will guide their graduate training and supervise their dissertation research.
Core Courses
Does not include the three tutorials taken in the first year.
Students are required to complete a minimum of four introductory courses in the quantitative, molecular, cellular and systems areas of biomedical sciences. In addition to completing the basic core courses, students must take two other more advanced Immunology courses, 3 semesters of Seminars, and one Elective. Students can select the remaining Elective course with the help of an advisory committee.
Cellular
- GS060014 Immunology I
Molecular
- GS030014 Metabolic Biochemistry OR
- GS030024 Advanced Topics in Biochemistry (serves as a Molecular requirement AND an Elective course)
Quantitative (choose one)
- GS010014 Biomedical Statistics
- GS030102 Current Methods in Biochemistry (two semesters)
- GS110013 Genetics and Human Disease
- GS040063 Cancer Biology
- GS040073 Developmental Biology
- GS120254 Cell and Systems Physiology
- GS140017 Neuroscience
Seminars
- GS060711 Seminar in Immunobiological Research (one semester)
- GS060611 Advanced Topics in Immunology (one semester)
Additional Immunology Program Requirements
- GS060102 Immunology II: Regulation of Immune Responses
- GS060112 Immunology III: Molecular Immunology
Elective Courses
Choose one.
Biochemistry- GS030024* Advanced Topics in Biochemistry
- GS040023* Molecular Basis of Gene Action
- GS040123* Eukaryotic Gene Expression
- GS040043 Virology I
- GS120043 Principles in Pathology
- GS120063* Histology
- GS120134* Introduction to Histology [UT Science Park]
- GS120144* Introduction to Pathology [UT Science Park]
- GS040181 Molecular Basis of Programmed Cell Death
- GS070013* Fundamentals of Prokaryotic Physiology
- GS070023 Medical Microbiology - Medical Bacteriology
- GS070103 Genetic Analysis of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Microbes
- GS040063* Cancer Biology
- GS040083* Basic Concepts of Tumor Biology [UT Science Park]
- GS040133 Cancer Cell Signaling
- GS040203 Experimental Genetics
- GS040782 Topics in Extracellular Matrix
- GS140017* Neuroscience
* meets a GSBS area course requirement. Other courses can be substituted if approved by both the student's Advisory Committee and the Graduate Studies Committee of the Program in Immunology.