We offer a variety of courses and seminars for graduate 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, and 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