PHG at University of Washington

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 PHG coursework.

• BIOST 513Medical Biometry IIIopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• B H 514Legal, Ethical, and Social Issues in Public Health Geneticsopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• BIOST 516Statistical Methods in Genetic Epidemiologyopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• BIOST 545Biostatistical Methods for Big Omics Dataopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• EPI 535Statistical Methods in Genetic Epidemiologyopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• GENOME 545Biostatistical Methods for Big Omics Dataopens 2 courses (2 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 PHG 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 18 PHG and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 17 more PHG 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 PHG. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at PHG 519

  1. BIOST 516Statistical Methods in Genetic Epidemiology
  2. PHG 519Statistical Methods in Genetic Epidemiology

• 4 courses deep, ending at PHG 512

  1. B H 514Legal, Ethical, and Social Issues in Public Health Genetics
  2. PHG 512Legal, Ethical, and Social Issues in Public Health Genetics

• 4 courses deep, ending at PHG 545

  1. BIOST 545Biostatistical Methods for Big Omics Data
  2. PHG 545Biostatistical Methods for Big Omics Data

• 3 courses deep, ending at PHG 536

  1. PABIO 536Bioinformatics and Gene Sequence Analysis
  2. PHG 536Bioinformatics and Gene Sequence Analysis

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for PHG yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under PHG yet.

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Department events

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