Core Courses Laboratory Courses Elective Courses Team Projects Seminars and Field Trips Online Course Material		Students are required to take all five of the following core courses at first, but may drop one after the second week, provided they are carrying at least one elective course. Core courses meet for 4 hours per week, usually in the morning, for the first 4 weeks of the program. Biotechnology of HIV and AIDS. The main thrust of this course is to explain the use of biotechnology in the development of anti-HIV drugs. Organic Chemistry, a brief treatment of the methods of preperation, the reactions, and uses of some of the important functioning classes of organic compounds. Computer Science, mathematical approach to data organization, text compression, and cryptography. Discrete Mathematics, looking at mathematics in a new way, elementary combinatorics, graph theory, probability, and game theory. Concepts of Modern Physics, special and general relativity, basics of particle physics and the particle physics/cosmology interface. The PGSS Seminars and Field Trips are also considered core courses and cannot be dropped during the program.
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