Second Year of Study

Dissertation Advisor Declaration  | Qualifying Exam

 

During their second year, students focus on research training. Students must be officially accepted into a lab by March 1st of G2 when they submit the Dissertation Advisor Declaration form (DAD).

During the later part of G2, SHBT students prepare their Qualifying Exam. They are required to submit a request for Oral exam, no later than August 31st of G3. The QE must be taken by Oct 31st of G3. 
 

The students are also required to attend the Responsible Conduct of Science course (or refresher if already taken). This training is mandatory for all DMS students.

 

MEDSCI 300QC: Responsible Conduct of Science

MEDSCI 302QC: Responsible Conduct of Science Refresher

(R. Kucherlapati, Director)

 

The Division of Medical Sciences at Harvard Medical School requires all G2 students to participate in a Responsible Conduct of Science course during their second fall semester. This course outlines best practices for the ethical conduct of scientific research. All students are required to participate in the Conduct of Science Refresher course fall of G6 year if they are still enrolled in the program.

 

Electives available to SHBT students

 

Two electives are required for the entry class of 2023. For previous students, elective courses are strongly encouraged. The course work should be crafted with the input from the concentration advisor and dissertation advisor. Here is a list of courses that have been offered at Harvard and MIT. For courses not listed, please consult with Josh McDermott, Chair of the Curriculum Committee. Check my.harvard for an updated list.. 

 

Course Title

Instructors

Term

Credit

SHBT 203: Anatomy of Speech and Hearing

Barbara Fullerton

January (4 weeks)

4

NEURO 200 / HST 130: Neuroscience

John Assad,

Matthew Frosch

Fall Full Term

4

NEUROBIO 215A: The Discipline of Neuroscience (by petition)

Lisa Goodrich,

John Assad, etc.

Fall Full Term

4

HST 160: Genetics in Modern Medicine

Salil Garg, Sahar Nissim

Fall Full Term

4

BE 110: Physiological Systems Analysis

Maurice Smith

Fall Full Term

4

APMTH 226: Theory of Neural Computation

Cengiz Pehlevan

Fall Full Term

4

NEUROBIO 240: Biological and Artificial Intelligence

Gabriel Krieman

Spring Full term

4

APMTH 115: Mathematical Modeling

Zhiming Kuang

Spring Full term

4

MCB 145/ NEURO 145: Neurobiology of Perception and Decision Making

Naoshige Uchida

Fall Full Term

4

NEUROBIO 212: Mathematical tools for Neuroscience

Eleanor Batty

Fall Full Term

4

BMI 715: Computational Statistics for Biomedical Sciences

Aparna Nathan

Fall Half Term

2

CELLBIO 201: Principles of Cell Biology

Susan Shao

Daviel Finely

Spring Full Term

4

MIT 9.35: Perception

Josh McDermott

Spring Full Term

12

MIT 9.66: Computational Cognitive Science

Josh Tenenbaum

Fall Full Term

12

MIT 9.07: Statistics for Brain and Cognitive Science

Emery N. Brown

Fall Full Term

12

MIT 9.014: Quantitative Methods and Computational Models in Neurosciences

Mehrdad Jazayeri

Fall Full Term

12

MIT 9.011: Systems Neuroscience Core I

Robert Desimone/ Earl K Miller

Fall Full Term

18

MIT 9.390: Language in the Mind and Brain

Ev Fedorenko

Spring Full Term

12

MIT 9.40: Introduction to Neural Computation

Michael Fee

Spring Full Term

12

MIT HST.524: Design of Medical Devices and Implants

I.V. Yannas, M. Spector

Spring Full Term

12

MIT HST.141: Molecular Medicine

V. Sankaran, S. Agarwal

Fall Full Term

6

MIT 6.871 / HST.956: Machine Learning for Healthcare

D. Sontag, P. Szolovits

Spring Full Term

12

MIT 6.100L: Introduction to Computer Science and Programming

A Bell

Fall/Spring Full Term

9

MIT 6.341: Discrete Time Signal

A.V.Oppenheim, J. Ward

Fall Full Term

12

MIT 6.7900: Machine Learning

P. Agrawal

Fall Full Term

12

MIT IDS.012: Statistics, Computation and Applications

N. Azizan, S. Sra, Stefanie Jegelka

Spring Full Term

12

MIT 2.794: Cellular Neurophysiology and Computing

Staff

Fall Term

12

MIT 6.8620: Spoken Language Processing

Jim Glass

Spring Full Term

(not offered 2023)

12

MIT 9.073: Statistics for Neuroscience Research

Emery N. Brown

Spring Full Term

(not offered 2023)

12

Neurobio 315C: Human Neuroanatomy and Neuropathology

Matthew Frosh

Fall

2

PSY 1950: Intermediate Statistical Analysis in Psychology

Patrick Mair

Fall

4

 

Main Track

Graduate Year 2

SLP Track

Graduate Year 2 SLP Track