Curriculum Overview

PABS is considered a "lock-step cohort" program, which means that the program curriculum is for the most part predetermined. PABS core courses are offered only once per year, so a course repeat is not possible until the course is offered in the following year. The curriculum involves taking courses at the three PABS campuses in the following sequence:

Semester 1

The Survey of Biotechnology course series provides students with the competency to function effectively as contributing members of multidisciplinary teams. All first-semester survey courses are taught at CSU Fullerton. NOTE: Biology 573 is taught in the summer session prior to the fall start. Generally this course begins in the first two weeks of June.

Summer 1 (June)

Management 573 (Commercialization of Technology)

Fall (August)

Biology 570 (Survey of Biotechnology: Pharm/Tox)
Biology 571 (Survey of Biotechnology: Informatics)
Biology 572 (Survey of Biotechnology: Pharm Processes/Med Devices)

Semester 2a/Winter Quarter*

Courses are taught at CSU Los Angeles.

Biology 518 (Skills Laboratory; Drug Discovery)
Management 554 (Project Management)

Semester 2b/Spring Quarter*

Courses are taught at Cal Poly Pomona.

Biology 576 (Regulatory Affairs)
Biology 456 (Skills Laboratory; Stem Cells)
Engineering 520L (Skills Laboratory; Microdevices)

Summer 2

Industry-based Internship

Semester 3

Applied Masters Project (Course numbers vary with home campus)
Concentration Course 1 (Course numbers vary)

Semester 4

Applied Masters Project (Course numbers vary with home campus)
Concentration Courses 2 and 3 (Course numbers vary)

*Cal Poly Pomona and CSU Los Angeles are on a quarter system, and Fullerton is on a semester system.