The graduate curriculum

Graduate students in Ecology Evolution and Systematics take coursework for the first three or four semesters in residence. Each student chooses his/her coursework in consultation with their graduate committee. A comprehensive examination is required for both M.S. and Ph.D. students and is generally taken after most of the coursework has been completed. Courses may be taken from those in the Biological Sciences (see course list below) and from other departments including Community Health Sciences, Civil Engineering, Geology, Geography, Statistics, and Law. While coursework is important, the emphasis in graduate school is on designing and conducting innovative research. Students are expected to have identified a research project in consultation with their faculty mentor and to have started work on their research proposal/project by the end of their second semester in residence.

 

Graduate courses in Ecology and Systematics

BSC 507 - Research Techniques in Biology

BSC 512 - Limnology

BSC 513 - Limnology Laboratory

BSC 514 - Dendrology

BSC 516 - Aquatic Vascular Plants

BSC 517 - Environmental Modeling

BSC 520 - Systematic Zoology

BSC 521 - Geomicrobiology

BSC 522 - Climate Dynamics

BSC 523 - Freshwater Ecosystems

BSC 528 - Biology of Fishes

BSC 534 - Plant Taxonomy

BSC 539 - Molecular Biology Laboratory

BSC 550/551 - Biochemistry/Molecular Biol I & II

BSC 556 - Microbial Ecology

BSC 557 - Microbial Ecology Laboratory

BSC 572 - Mycology

BSC 576 - Aquatic Insects

BSC 582 - Conservation Biology

BSC 584 - Aquatic Biology Seminar

BSC 590 - Stream Ecology

BSC 592 - Aquatic Biogeochemistry

BSC 605 - Ecology & Systematics Seminar

BSC 606 - Adv. Ecology & Systematics Seminar

BSC 607 - Advanced Research Techniques in Biology

BSC 612 - Aquatic Secondary Production.

BSC 651 - Population Ecology

BSC 652 - Community Ecology

BSC 695 - Microbial Diversity

BSC 695 - Evolutionary Processes

BSC 695 - Statistics Seminar

BSC 695 - Molecular Systematics

BSC 695 - Professional Ethics

MS 511 - Marsh Ecology

MS 512 - Marine Ecology

MS 548 - Introd Oceanography

MS 553 - Marine Botany

MS 553 - Coastal Zone Management

 

For the schedule of courses to be offered in the near future, see the E&S Course Schedule.