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BIOL 535

Selected Topics in Biology

3.00 units · Undergraduate

Winter 2026

Topics

  • Biodiversity
  • Ecology
Fall 2025

Topics

  • Introduction: The scope of contemporary evolution & brainstorming session
  • Applications: experimental evolution for engineering, drug development
  • Biodiversity
  • Population genetics
  • Disease
  • Learning
  • Adaptation
  • Conservation

Readings

  • Required: Course Textbooks Edition(s) Publisher
Winter 2024

Topics

  • Evolution
  • Genetics
  • Critical thinking
  • Development
  • Disease
Fall 2024

Topics

  • Development
  • Learning

Readings

  • Required: There is no required textbook. Access to “Career Opportunities in Biotechnology and Drug Development (Toby Freedman)” is helpful but not mandatory.
  • Required: Discovery Research.
  • Required: Project Management.
  • Required: Medical Affairs.
  • Required: 4. Bio/Pharmaceutical Product Development.
  • Required: Life Science Information Management.
  • Required: Business and Corporate Development.
  • Required: Technical Applications and Support.
  • Required: Corporate Communications.
  • Required: Executive Leadership and Entrepreneurship.
  • Required: Management Consulting.
  • Required: Scientific Publishing.
  • Required: Public Communication.
Fall 2023

Topics

  • Health Care Finance: Venture Capital, Institutional Investing, Investment Banking, and Equity
  • Development
  • Bacteria
  • Molecular biology
  • Disease
  • Learning

Readings

  • Required: Career Opportunities in Biotechnology and Drug Development (Toby Freedman)
  • Required: Discovery Research: The Idea Makers.
  • Required: Preclinical Research: The Bridge between Discovery Research and Clinical Development.
  • Required: Project Management: The Product Development "Orchestra Conductors".
  • Required: Clinical Development: Developing New Products to Benefit Human Health.
  • Required: Medical Affairs: Working in the Post–Approval World.
  • Required: 6. Bio/Pharmaceutical Product Development: The Chemistry Has to Be Good.
  • Required: Life Science Information Management: The Melding of Computer and Biological Sciences.
  • Required: 9. Marketing: Communicating a Message to Customers.
  • Required: 10. Sales: Generating Revenue and Educating Customers.
  • Required: Technical Applications and Support: Getting Paid to Be the Expert.
  • Required: Corporate Communications: Communication between External and Internal Worlds.
  • Required: Executive Leadership and Entrepreneurship: The Business Builders.
  • Required: 14. Law: Providing Legal Advice and Protecting Property.
  • Required: Health Care Finance: Venture Capital, Institutional Investing, Investment Banking, and Equity Research.
  • Required: Management Consulting: The Strategy Advisors.
  • Required: 17. Recruiting: The Business of Matchmaking.
  • Required: The following textbooks is required for this course: Career Opportunities in Biotechnology and Drug Development (1st Edition), by Toby Freedman. At the time of writing this syllabus, this book is available from Amazon.ca for approximately CA Amazon.com for approximately US and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press for approximately US (print) or US (eText).
Winter 2022

Topics

  • Biodiversity
  • Ecology
2022

Topics

  • The history of tropical ecology and exploration
  • Tropical ecosystems
  • Conservation in developing versus developing nations and the challenges therein
  • International agreements in conservation
  • The value of Indigenous insights in conservation
  • Biodiversity
  • Learning
  • Critical thinking
  • Freshwater
  • Relationships
  • Poverty
  • Climate change
  • Synthesis
2013-2014

Topics

  • Evolution
  • Synthesis
Sources