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Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Courses

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ORG&EVBI 696 Master’s Independent Study
Laboratory research under direction of an OEB faculty member. Credit, 1-6.

ORG&EVBI 697B Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Discussion

Proseminar required for all new OEB students during first semester of residence Credit, 1.

ORG&EVBI 697Y Graduate Student Seminar Series
Student-presented seminars. Required of all OEB students. Typically taken during second or third year of residency. Credit, 1.

ORG&EVBI 699 Master’s Thesis
Credit, 1-10.

ORG&EVBI 796 Ph.D. Independent Study
Laboratory research under direction of an OEB faculty member. Credit, 1-6.

ORG&EVBI 797C OEB Ecology Core Course
Foundation in Ecology required of all OEB students, taken first or second year. Credit, 4.

ORG&EVBI 797D OEB Evolution Core Course
Foundation in Ecology required of all OEB students, taken first or second year. Credit, 4.

ORG&EVBI 891C OEB Seminar
Weekly seminars held during both semesters. Notable speakers invited by OEB faculty. Students present their research. Credit, 1.

ORG&EVBI 899 Doctoral Dissertation
Credit, 18.

Ecology Requirement

For current students, the courses listed below meet the Ecology course requirement. Incoming students must take ORG&EVBI 797C OEB Ecology Core Course.

BIOLOGY 550 Animal Behavior
BIOLOGY 750 Advanced Animal Behavior
ENTOMOL 511 Insect Behavior
ENTOMOL 683 Insect Ecology
FOREST 577 Ecosystem Modeling and Simulation
FOREST 703 Advanced Forest Ecology
GEO-SCI 541 Paleoecology
GEO-SCI 658 Paleoclimatology
PSYCH 620 Learning and Animal Behavior
PSYCH 891 Behavioral Ecology
W&FCONSV 564 Wildlife Habitat Management
W&FCONSV 565 Wildlife Population Dynamics and Management
W&FCONSV 571 Fisheries Science and Management
W&FCONSV 697 Carnivore Ecology, Biology and Behavior
W&FCONSV 697A Conservation Biology
W&FCONSV 697L Landscape Ecology
W&FCONSV 720 Ecological Interactions of Fishes
W&FCONSV 768 Advanced Wetland Ecology

Evolution Requirement

For current students, the courses listed below meet the Evolution course requirement. Incoming students must take ORG&EVBI 797D OEB Evolution Core Course.

BIOLOGY 521 Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
BIOLOGY 522 Vertebrate Fossils and Evolution
BIOLOGY 528 Principles of Evolution
BIOLOGY 597L Principles of Molecular Evolution
BIOLOGY 722 Vertebrate Paleontology
ENTOMOL 697Q Evolutionary Genetics
ORG&EVBI 797E Environmental Evolution

Additional Evolution Courses

For current students, these courses fulfill the Evolution requirement with approval of the Graduate Program Director.

BIOLOGY 540 Herpetology
BIOLOGY 542 Ichthyology
BIOLOGY 544 Ornithology
BIOLOGY 548 Mammalogy
ENTOMOL 655 Systematic Entomology
GEO-SCI 697A Symbiosis
GEO-SCI 697B Protists
MICROBIO 560 Microbial Diversity

Statistics Requirement

BIOST&EP 540 Introductory Biostatistics
BIOST&EP 640 Intermediate Biostatistics
NRC 697M Multivariate Statistics for Natural Resources
NRC 697S Applied Statistics for Natural Resources
PLNTSOIL 661 Intermediate Biometry
STATISTC 501 Methods of Applied Statistics