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DEVELOPMENT OF SKILLS FOR CAREERS IN THE LIFE SCIENCES
The graduate program in Biology is designed to foster skill that will be
useful in the various career pathways in the life sciences. Our program and
curriculum serve to develop the following skills:
- To develop knowledge base in contemporary fields in life sciences
- develop knowledge in research area and breadth of knowledge
- advised in first year by first year advisor committee (faculty and
students)
- Teaching experience
- pedagogy training - includes pedagogy course for starting TAs
- teacher / scholar role models
- opportunities to teach undergraduate courses in field of interest
- curricular development
- research mentoring by senior grad students
- Communication skills
- writing skills
- oral presentation skills
- Special skills (relevant to a broad range of life science career pathways)
- problem solving
- experimental design
- working effectively in groups
- attention to detail
- Develop capacity to learn
- to learn in new situations
- to be flexible
- to problem solve
- Internships
- Bioethics
- important for research, biotechnology, education, journalism, policy
making
- Computer information processing
- increasingly important for all aspects of life sciences
- efficient with use of web
- judging quality, implementing web pages, data analysis
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