Graduate Course List

INTRODUCTORY COURSE
EVOLUTION AND HUMAN AFFAIRS (BIOL 570)
D.S. Wilson, instructor
4 credits, Fall semester
Tuesday 6-9 PM, location to be announced

This course introduces evolutionary theory and its wide-ranging implications for human affairs to graduate students from all departments. It is taught once a week (Tuesday) in the evening to maximize the opportunity for participation. The first few weeks will be devoted to the basic principles of evolution and why they provide a theoretical framework for all biological and human-related subjects. Then students will explore their own areas of interest and will learn about evolutionary research taking place on campus through guest lectures by EvoS faculty, advanced BU graduate students, and advanced graduate students from other institutions . By the end of the course, students will have a good idea of how evolutionary theory can contribute to their own professional development (depth) and how it also provides a common language for transdisciplinary interactions (breadth).

CURRENT TOPICS IN EVOS (BIOL 680S)

2 credits, every semester, Friday afternoon/evening in association with the EvoS seminar series
Required at least once for certificate

This course is built upon the EvoS seminar series, which brings distinguished speakers to campus at roughly biweekly intervals. The course consists of reading one or more articles in preparation for each speaker, writing a short response to the article(s), attending the seminar, and meeting with each speaker after the seminar for an extended discussion over food. This is a superb way to engage in transdisciplinary interactions with other members of EvoS and with some of the most distinguished scientists and scholars of our day. The course can be taken multiple times and requires that Fridays between 4-7PM be kept open on EvoS seminar days.

OTHER PERMANENT COURSES AND SPECIAL TOPICS SEMINARS

This listing was updated in May 2004 but may have missed some courses. If you think that a course should be included that is not on the list ,please contact the program director. Also, remember that evolutionary content can potentially be added to any course, as outlined in the information for graduate students.

ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT

ANTH 515 Evolutionary Theory

ANTH 541 Biology of Primates

ANTH 543 Human Biological Variation

ANTH 546 Human Paleontology

ANTH 547 Anthropological Genetics

ANTH 550 Coevolution of humans and pathogens

ANTH 549 Medical Anthropology

ANTH 572M Molecular Anthropology

ANTH 572N Molecular Anthropology (Laboratory)

BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT

BIOL 505 Functional Genomics and Proteomics

BIOL 532 Conceptual foundations in ecology, evolution and behavior

BIOL 535 Principles of evolutionary biology

BIOL 563 Tropical ecology and conservation

BIOL 564 Sociobiology

BIOL 568 Behavioral ecology of primates

BIOL 570 Evolution and Human Affairs

BIOL 602Q Discussion in ecology, evolution and behavior

BIOL 680R Analysis of sexual selection

BIOL680S Current topics in EvoS

GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT

GEOG 522 Biogeography

PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT

PSYCH 509 Conditioning and Learning

SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING DEPARTMENTS

SSIE 519: Applied Soft Computing

SSIE 616: Advanced Topics in Applied Soft Computing.