1.1 The requirements are structured to meet the UW Graduate School requirements for interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate programs.
1.2 The StatGen Certificate requirements are of
1.3 Additionally students may need to take prerequisite material in
2.1 The five courses consist of
*: Note that 550 is pre-requisite of 551, and 551 of 552.
**: Note also that to take 541 without 540 requires permission of the
instructor: students who have taken STAT/BIOST 550 will have the
necessary background to be given this permission.
2.2
Students may petition to replace any ONE of the above 5 courses by another
500-level class. The petition will be granted only for courses deemed by
the Steering Committee to be Statistical Genetics and of comparable
technical and scientific standard to the course being substituted.
Note that since 550 and 551 are required for 552, it is generally
not feasible to petition out of 550 or 551.
3.1 Intending Certificate students are very strongly encouraged to take all of their 5 Certificate courses for graded credit. Students wishing to take any of the Certificate courses S/NS should discuss this with the instructor and/or their Statistical Genetics advisor.
3.2 To meet UW Certificate requirements, at least
9 credits must be taken graded.
These 9 graded credits must include STAT/BIOST 551 and 552.
The remaining 2 classes may be taken S/NS.
3.3 A minimum grade of 2.7 and a
GPA of 3.0 is required for the any of the 5 Certifiate
classes taken for graded credit.
For classes taken S/NS, an S (2.7) is required.
3.4 Although STAT/BIOST 550 is a required pre-requisite of 551, 552, it may be counted towards the Certificate even if taken S/NS. We wish to encourage students from diverse areas who may be uncertain as to their interest or preparation for Statistical Genetics to take STAT/BIOST 550. Generally STAT/BIOST 550 is taken before students formally enroll in the Certificate Program.
4.2 Students whose degree or class schedules make continuous Fall-Winter-Spring participation impractical may request to count 3 quarters of BIOST 580B that are not within one AY.
4.2 Capstone experience (required by the Graduate School).
A literature of research project that arose from any one of the five
Certificate courses taken by the student should be presented as a
seminar in the Statistical Genetics Seminar. Students who are nearing
completion of the Certificate Program should contact the BIOST 580B
instructors to schedule this presentation. (See also procedures for
application abd graduation -- to be written real soon.)