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EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

 

APPROVED COURSES


Foundation Courses
  • BIOL 251: Introduction to Organismal and Population Systems OR
    BIOL 214: Genes and Evolution
  • GEOL 210: Historical Geology/Paleontology (offered spring semester of even-numbered years)
  • ANTH/BIO/PHIL 225: Evolution

(Note: Majors and minors declared before Fall 2006 semester who took BIOL 114 before 2007 may use it instead of BIOL 251 or 214 to fulfill the biology foundation course requirement.)


 
Ecology
  • BIOL 216: Organimsms and Ecosystems
  • BIOL 336: Aquatic Biology
  • BIOL 351: Principles of Ecology
Philosophy/History of Science
  • HSTY 201: Science in Western Thought I
  • HSTY 202: Science in Western Thought II
  • HSTY 398: History of Biology
  • HSTY 402: Survey of the History of Science II
  • PHIL 203: Natural Philosophy I
  • PHIL 204: Natural Philosophy II
  • PHIL 303: Topics in Philosophy of Science
  • PHIL 309: Philosophical Issues in Genetics
 
Approved Electives
  • ANTH 103: Introduction to Human Evolution
    ANTH 302: Darwinian Medicine
    ANTH 370: Senior Field Seminar in Paleoanthropology
    ANTH 375: Human Evolution: The Fossil Evidence
    ANTH 377: Human Musculoskeletal Anatomy
    ANTH 378: Reproductive Health: An Evolutionary Perspective
    ANTH 383: Evolutionary Anatomy
    ANTH 393: Human Ecology
    ANTH 397: Epidemiology and Evolution of Human Diseases
    BIOL 214L: Genes and Evolution Lab
    BIOL 216L: Organisms and Ecosystems Lab
    BIOL 223: Vertebrate Biology
    BIOL 305: Herpetology
    BIOL 318: Introduction to Entomology
    BIOL 326: Genetics
    BIOL 328: Plant Genomics
    BIOL 339: Aquatic Biology Laboratory
    BIOL 343: Microbiology and BIOL 344: Microbiology Lab
    BIOL 345: Mammal Diversity and Evolution
    BIOL 351L: Principles of Ecology Laboratory
    BIOL 358: Animal Behavior
    BIOL 359: Genetics of Behavior
    BIOL 362: Principles of Developmental Biology
    BIOL 363: Experimental Developmental Biology
    BIOL 364: Advanced Evolutionary Biology
    BIOL 365: Evo-Devo: Evolution of Body Plans
    BIOL 366: Genes, Embryos, and Fossils
    BIOL 387: Seminar in Population Biology
    BIOL 394: Seminar in Evolutionary Biology
    GEOL 301: Stratigraphy and Sedimentation
    BIOL/GEOL 307: Evolutionary Biology and Paleobiology of the Invertebrates (offered spring semester of odd-numbered years)
    PSCL 350: Behavioral Genetics
    STAT 201: Basic Statistics for Social and Life Sciences
    STAT 313: Statistics for Experimenters
    EECS/GENE 458: Introduction to Bioinformatics




The following courses are cross-listed under all Evolutionary Biology departments (ANTH, BIOL, GEOL, PHIL). Register through the department that best suits your curriculum.

           ANTH/BIOL/GEOL/PHIL 367: Topics in Evolutionary Biology
           ANTH/BIOL/GEOL/PHIL 396: Undergraduate Research in Evolutionary Biology