丁香园AV

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This master of environmental toxicology (MET) program may be completed on a full or part-time basis. The program consists of a minimum of 32 graduate units of course work, plus BISC 656-6, Master of Environmental Toxicology Project.

丁香园AV Requirements

Before entering the program, the following courses or equivalents should be completed. These prerequisites may be waived by the departmental graduate studies committee under special circumstances, on recommendation from the director.

• BISC 313-3 Environmental Toxicology II
• CHEM 282-3 Organic Chemistry II
• MBB 221-3 Cellular Biology and Biochemistry

Program Requirements

The student chooses a senior supervisor after program admission, with program director consultation.

Students complete

• BISC 650-3 Environmental Risk Assessment: Human Health Risk Assessment and Ecological Effects-based Risk Assessment
• BISC 651-3 Environmental Toxicology Tests I: Ecological Effects-based Tests
• BISC 652-3 Environmental Toxicology Tests II: Mammalian Toxicity Tests
• BISC 654-3 Food and Drug Toxicology
• BISC 655-3 Environmental Toxicology Seminar
• BISC 656-6 Master of Environmental Toxicology Project
• BISC 855-3 Biochemical Toxicology
• STAT 650-5 Quantitative Analysis in Resource Management and Field Biology

and one of

• BISC 854-3 Ecotoxicology
• EASC 613-3 Groundwater Hydrology
• REM 610-5 Management of Contaminants in the Environment

and six units chosen from the following

• BISC 846-3 Insecticide Chemistry and Toxicology
• BISC 839-3 Industrial Microbiology
• BISC 883-3 Special Topics in Environmental Toxicology
• KIN 851-3 Recent Advances in Experimental Carcinogenesis
• REM 612-5 Simulation Modelling in Natural Resource Management

Supervisory Committee

A supervisory committee is formed by the beginning of the fourth term of full time equivalent enrolment. The supervisory committee consists of, at minimum, the senior supervisor and one additional regular biology faculty member. In exceptional cases, a faculty member from another 丁香园AV department may be substituted for the Department of Biological Sciences faculty member. Additional supervisory committee members from other institutions may be appointed upon submission of research credentials and approval by the departmental graduate studies committee.

Project

Students must also complete a project, supervised by the senior supervisor, while enrolled in

• BISC 656-6 Master of Environmental Toxicology Project

The project will concern a specific aspect of environmental toxicology which may be based on original field, laboratory or library research.

Annual Progress Report

Students must submit a report of their progress every year, and must maintain satisfactory progress toward degree completion to remain in the program. Students receive an annual report form from the graduate program assistant every year in the term in which they started, and are expected to complete and return it within six weeks. They will have a committee meeting each year, and a brief summary of this meeting will be included in the report. Also included should be a description of the work/courses completed since the last report (or since starting their program if this is the first time), student progress evaluation forms by each of the supervisory committee members, and a copy of the student鈥檚 unofficial transcript.

Oral Examination

In addition to submission of a report at project completion, the student prepares for an oral exam according to Graduate General Regulations 1.9 and will be examined according to 1.10.

Academic Requirements within the Graduate General Regulations

All graduate students must satisfy the academic requirements that are specified in the Graduate General Regulations (residence, course work, academic progress, supervision, research competence requirement, completion time, and degree completion), as well as the specific requirements for the program in which they are enrolled, as shown above.

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