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Summary

The undergraduate component of EvoS is known as an integrated curriculum and is designed to be taken in conjunction with your existing major by allowing some of your courses to simultaneously satisfy major and integrated curriculum requirements. Completing an integrated curriculum results in a certificate issued by the Office of the Provost that is issued along with your diploma.

Undergraduate students are welcome to take indivdual courses without formally entering the program. Those who wish to enter the program should contact the program director. You will be assigned a faculty advisor who will help you design a curriculum tailored to your interests and the requirements of your major. You will also be added to the electronic community that is maintained on the EvoS blackboard site. The specific requirements of the program are as follows:

1) 20 credits of courses listed in the curriculum. We recommend that you start with the introductory course "Evolution for Everyone (BIOL 105)", unless you have had equivalent material in other classes. The remaining 16 credits can be drawn from permanent courses, special topic seminars, internships, independent study opportunities, and permanent courses outside the program supplemented with evolutionary material, as outlined in more detail below. No more than eight credits can be at the 100 level and at least eight credits must be at the 300-level or higher.

2) A breadth requirement, such that at least one course above the 100 level must be in a subject area different than the student’s concentration (i.e., a biology major would need to take one course outside of biology, and so on).

3) At least two semesters enrolled in the 2-credit course organized around the EvoS seminar series, which features both external speakers and BU faculty, and which count toward the 20 credit total. The EvoS seminars are open to all members of EvoS and the campus community, but those who take the 2-credit course will read and discuss papers provided by the speakers and will meet with the speakers for an extended discussion after the seminar.

 

David Sloan Wilson

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