BIOS at Virginia Commonwealth University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate BIOS coursework.

• BIOS 654Biostatistical Methods II.opens 5 courses (4 directly)
• STAT 514Mathematical Statistics II.opens 4 courses (4 directly)
• BIOS 544Graduate Research Methods II.opens 4 courses (3 directly)
• BIOS 514Mathematical Statistics II.opens 3 courses (3 directly)
• BIOS 549Spatial Data Analysisopens 1 course (1 directly)
• BIOS 658Statistical Methods for High-throughput Genomics Data I.opens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate BIOS work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 27 BIOS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 16 more BIOS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in BIOS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at BIOS 649

  1. BIOS 543Graduate Research Methods I.
  2. BIOS 544Graduate Research Methods II.
  3. BIOS 549Spatial Data Analysis
  4. BIOS 649Advanced Spatial Data Analysis

• 4 courses deep, ending at BIOS 668

  1. BIOS 543Graduate Research Methods I.
  2. BIOS 544Graduate Research Methods II.
  3. BIOS 658Statistical Methods for High-throughput Genomics Data I.

• 3 courses deep, ending at BIOS 615

  1. BIOS 513Mathematical Statistics I.
  2. STAT 514Mathematical Statistics II.
  3. BIOS 615Advanced Inference

• 3 courses deep, ending at BIOS 625

  1. BIOS 513Mathematical Statistics I.
  2. BIOS 514Mathematical Statistics II.
  3. BIOS 625Categorical Data Analysis and Generalized Linear Models

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for BIOS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under BIOS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

BIOS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the VCU campus feed.