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CANDIDATE GRADUATE COURSES FOR ENTOMOLOGY STUDENTS

Number & Course Name
Entomology:

511 Insect Behavior
523 Biological Control
572 Forest & Shade Tree Insects
576 Aquatic Invertebrates
581 Insect Pest Management
585 Toxicology of Insecticides
592 Chemicals & the Environment
597Q Ecological Genetics
655 Insect Classification (required)
657 Insect Structure & Function (required)
671 Insects in the Classroom
683 Insect Ecology
685 Analysis of Insecticidal Chemicals
697Q Simulation of Evolutionary Problems

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology:
523 General Biochemistry I
524 General Biochemistry II
526 Biochemistry Laboratory
623 Advanced General Biochemistry
642 Advanced Molecular Biology (cross listed Mol. & Cell. Biol.)
690 series Several 690-series seminars may be appropriate

Biology:
511 Plant Physiology
526 Plant Geography
528 Principles of Evolution
530 Biology of Invertebrates
537 Ecology
550 Animal Behavior
569 Endocrinology
572 Neurobiology
576 Aquatic Invertebrates
580 Developmental Biology
591M Microscopy & Image Processing
597C Vegetation of North America
597C Plant Evolution
750 Advanced Animal Behavior
755 Systematics & Evolutionary Mechanisms (phylogenetic theory)
757 Population & Community Ecology

Biostatistics and Epidemiology:
540 Introductory Biostatistics (recipe-based tour)
640 Intermediate Biostatistics (continues recipe-based tour)
630 Principles of Epidemiology
740 Mixed Models & Longitudinal Data Analysis (unbalanced designs and sequential sampling)
741 Design and Analysis of Experiments
742 Advanced Methods in Biometric Research (multivariate & nonparametric methods)
743 Analysis of Categorical Data in the Health Sciences (mostly logistic regression)
Other, even more specialized, BioEpi courses may be useful for population entomologists

Chemistry:
513 Instrumental Analysis
716 Chemical Separations

Environmental Sciences:
535 Methods in Environmental Toxicology

Civil and Environmental Engineering:
579 Air Quality
680 Water Chemistry
776 Bioremediation

Food Science:
785 Toxicology

Geosciences:
594A Introduction to GIS
595A Advanced GIS

Mathematics & Statistics:
501 Methods of Applied Statistics (introductory level)
505 Regression & Analysis of Variance (recipe-based)
506 Design of Experiments (classic, recipe-based)
511 Multivariate Statistical Methods
515 Statistics I (1st half of tour)
516 Statistics II (2nd half of tour)

Microbiology:
540 Immunology
565 Lab. Molecular Genetics
570 Virology
575 Microbial Genetics
585 Concepts in Molecular Genetics

Molecular and Cellular Biology:
641 Advanced Cellular Biology
642 Advanced Molecular Biology (cross-listed Biochem. & Mol. Biol.)

Natural Resources Conservation:
528 Forest & Wetland Hydrology
563 Wetland Wildlife Ecology & Management
577 Ecosystem Modeling and Simulation
587 Digital Remote Sensing
592G Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Forestry
697A Conservation Biology
697L Landscape Ecology
697M Multivariate Statistics for Natural Resources (uses ecological examples)
697T Trophic Dynamics (food web theory)
703 Advanced Forest Ecology
758 Advanced Wildlife Management
768 Advanced Wetlands Ecology
777 Advanced Systems Ecology

Plant & Soil Sciences:
505 General Plant Pathology
510 Management & Ecology of Plant Diseases
525 Physiology of Crop Yield
530 Plant Nutrition
535 Diagnostic Plant Pathology
555 Environmental Stress & Plant Growth
560 Advanced Weed Science
597E Ecosystem Science
745 Microbial Ecology of the Soil