Skills for Careers in Life Sciences

Opportunities in the Wesleyan Hughes Program and in our Life Sciences Curriculum aim to foster skills that will be useful for the increasingly diverse career pathways available in the life sciences.

To develop knowledge base in contemporary fields in life sciences through:

Communication skills

• writing skills
• oral presentation skills

Special skills (relevant to a broad range of life science career pathways)

• problem solving
• quantitative skills
• experimental design
• technology skills
• working effectively in groups
• attention to detail

Develop capacity to learn

• to learn in new situations
• to be flexible
• to solve problems

Internships

• in laboratories
• summer workshops

Bioethics

• important for research, biotechnology, education, journalism, policy making

Computer and information sciences

• increasingly important for all aspects of life sciences
• large scale data analysis - see Integrative Genomic Sciences
• efficient with use of web
• judging quality, implementing web pages