Graduate Courses

We offer a variety of courses and seminars for graduates students (there also are many other options available through other allied departments on campus.  Below is a listing of most of these courses to give you a general sense of the topics that might be covered.  "Seminars" are diverse, sometimes focusing on student research, sometimes covering a topic (both from a historical and current perspective) and sometimes highlighting the most current issues in a discipline (recent examples include phenotypic plasticity, behavior genetics, biogeography, stable isotopes).  Despite this listing, your most significant  growth as a scientist will often arise not by taking classes but through your individual scholarship and your informal interactions with other students and faculty (including those visiting from other institutions).

    Behavior

      Ethology
      Behavioral Ecology
      Dynamic Modeling in Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology
      Mechanisms of Behavior
      Seminar in Animal Behavior

    Ecology

      Community Ecology
      Limnology
      Marine Communities and Oceanographic Practicum
      Marine Ecology
      Nutritional Ecology
      Quantitative Methods and Ecological Inference
      Ecological Models and Data
      Seminar in Ecology / Frontiers and Foundations in Ecology / Readings in Population and Community Ecology
      Tropical Biology (OTS)
      Tropical Conservation


    Evolution

      Evolutionary Ecology
      Advanced Evolutionary Biology
      Evolutionary Biology and Feminism
      Evolutionary Genetics
      Island Biogeography
      Models and Simulations in Molecular Evolution
      Principles of Systematic Biology
      Research Reviews in Ecology and Evolution
      Vertebrate Paleontology


    General

      Research Reviews in Ecology and Evolution
      Biophotography
      Graduate Orientation Seminar (required)
      Integrative Principles (required)
      Readings in Biology
      Seminar in Biological Writing


    Morphology

      Morphometrics
      Reptilian Functional Morphology


    Physiology

      Physiological Ecology
      Physiological Ecology of Vertebrates
      Seminar in Comparative Physiology


    Zoology

      Avian Systematics and Biogeography
      Concepts in Chelonian Biology
      Ichthyology
      Mammalian Review
      Mammology
      Advanced Invertebrate Zoology
      Seminar in Herpetology

 

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