Undergraduate Course List

INTRODUCTORY COURSE
EVOLUTION FOR EVERYONE (BIOL 105)
D.S. Wilson, instructor
4 credits, Fall semester, Tu/Th 1:15-2:40
Satisfies BU's General Education Social Science Requrement
Now available as an online course, starting winter session 2008

This course explains the basic principles of evolution and why they are so important for the study of humans in addition to the rest of life. Students from all majors are welcome and a background in science is not necessary. Those who have already learned about evolution will still learn much in this course about the relevance of evolution to human affairs. This course can be taken by itself and also serves as the best introduction to EvoS as a multi-course integrated curriculum.

CURRENT TOPICS IN EVOS (BIOL 480S)

2 credits, offered every semester, Friday afternoon/evening in association with the EvoS seminar series
Required at least twice 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 undergraduate students.

ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT

ANTH 168 Introduction to Biological Anthropology (used to be called "Human Evolution")

ANTH 235 Biodiversity and the human legacy

ANTH 279 Darwinian Medicine

ANTH 280P People of the Pacific

ANTH 335 Human Origins

ANTH 336 Human skeleton

ANTH 337 Human Biological Variation

ANTH 338 Introduction to the Primates

ANTH 380 Human Population Genetics

ANTH 480B (summer) Evolution and Human Behavior

ANTH 480T Molecular Anthropology Theory

ANTH 480M Molecular Anthropology Lab

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

BIOL 117 Introduction to organismal and population Biology

BIOL 333 Genetics

BIOL 351 Mechanisms of evolution

BIOL 355 Ecology

BIOL 372 Paleobiology

BIOL373 Ecological principles and applications

BIOL 375 Animal behavior

BIOL 378 Macroevolution

BIOL 428 Functional Genomics and Proteomics

BIOL 450 Conceptual foundations in ecology, evolution and behavior

BIOL 453 Sociobiology

BIOL 454 Behavioral ecology of Primates

BIOL 472 Tropical ecology and conservation

BIOL 473 Southwest ecology

BIOL 476 Population ecology

BIOL 477 Animal behavior laboratory (2 CR)

BIOL 480Q Biology of sexual orientation

BIOL 480R Mother Nature

BIOL 480S Pheromones and animal behavior

BIOL 483Q Cultural evolutionary theory

BIOL 483V Advanced animal behavior

ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT

ECON 383F Evolutionary economics

ECON 461 Game theory

GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT

GEOG 422 Biogeography

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

HDEV 382B Psychology of Women's Bodies

HDEV 382A (Summer) Psychology and Culture of Pregnancy, Childhood and Motherhood

PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT

PHIL 121 Methods of Reasoning (E. Dietrich, instructor)

PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT

PSYCH 111 Introductory Psychology (R. Miller or A. Merriwether, instructor)

PSYCH 327 Evolution and Behavior

PSYCH 473M Seminar in Evolutionary Psychology

SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING DEPARTMENTS

BE-201 Self-Organizing Systems

BE-202 Adaptation in Biological Networks

BE-301 Modeling Nature