Subject: Biophysics
Course Number: 297
Course Title: Scientific writing: applying for the NSF predoctoral fellows
Units: 1
School: Graduate Division
Department: Biophysics Program

Course Description: Communicating your best ideas is critical to obtaining the resources necessary to work on them. This course prepares you to conceive, organize, and communicate scientific ideas in written form. Built around the NSF GRF application, this course covers important funding agencies and fellowship opportunities, formulating a research plan in the form of hypotheses and specific aims, organizing research proposals,and peer editing. Course culminates in submission of materials to NSF and other agencies
Prerequisites: None
Restrictions: None
Activities: Direct - Seminar, Direct - Workshop, Student - Seminar, Student - Workshop

Instructor of Record: B. Shoichet
May the student choose the instructor for this course? No
Does enrollment in this course require instructor approval? No

Quarter(s) Offered: Fall
Course Grading Convention: Letter Grade
Graduate Division course: Yes
Is this a web-based online course? No
Is this an Interprofessional Education (IPE) course? No
May students in the Graduate Division (i.e. pursuing Master or PhD) enroll in this course? Yes
Repeat course for credit? No