I took an undergrad class in genetics. I felt it was not too intensive and I do not feel prepared for grad school (if I can manage to get in.)
Does anyone know of a preferably free resource for learning genetics?
I know the field is very large, but I would like to be competent in the field, considering I also want to learn more about genomics as well. And I figure one must first have a fundamental understanding of either computer science or biology to be successful in genomics, both of which I lack.
Answer
As you said, the question is pretty broad. Genetics is a big gigantic field and it is quite hard to know what you are exactly looking for. If you could refine into one of the subfields (molecular genetics, population genetics, phylogenetics, etc..) it would be much easier to give you better advice. As you talk about both biology and bioinformatics, it might be worth to specify whether you are looking for learning more in fundamental genetics or learning more in the methodologies to analyse genetic data.
Principles of Genetics
You may want in an introductory class in genetics. Here is a course on MIT Open CourseWare, but it may be too easy for you.
Bioinformatics
You may want to take a bioinformatics course. There are so many bioinformatics course online that there is a wikipedia page to list them (there).
Side skills
Programming
You may just want to learn to code in R, Python, Perl or Shell script (to cite few examples). You'll find tons of beginner tutorial online.
Statistics
Or you might want to learn more about statistics. KhanAcademy has a very good (but very introductory) statistics class.
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