Current Students
Program Information
Own Your Future
If you’re a doctoral student, optimize your doctoral degree by taking advantage of Own Your Future (OYF). These workshops support you in your doctoral studies and enable you to be career-ready.
Own Your Future is:
- Self-directed – you participate as much or as little as you want
- Supported by a confidential Power Skills Assessment
- Designed to be relaxing and meaningful
- Developed and delivered by experts
Courses
Students in the PhD program must complete a total of 1.5 credits consisting of 0.25 seminar course + 5 other 0.25 credit courses. Courses should normally be from the 9000 level. If a student has transferred from the MSc program they may include the courses taken while in the MSc.
Students in the MSc program must complete a total of 1.0 credit consisting of 0.25 seminar course + 3 other 0.25 credit courses. Courses should normally be from the 9000 level, offered by the Biochemistry Department. With the agreement of the student's advisor/advisory committee and the Graduate Chair, one suitable course from another department may be used. Requests for a substituted course are to be sent to Megan Luckovitch (mluckovi@uwo.ca), the Graduate and Undergraduate Program Administrator.
For continuing students, 0.5 credit courses taken previously will be counted towards their degree.