Graduate Courses

Key Courses

Evolution and Human Affairs (BIOL 570)

4 credits. Offered each fall. Recommended introduction to graduate evolutionary studies.

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. Offered each semester in association with the EvoS seminar series. Required at least twice for the graduate 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 interdisciplinary 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.

All Courses

Course numbers may change from year to year.

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 570S Evolution of Language
ANTH 572B Methods in Biological Anthropology
ANTH 572M Molecular Anthropology
ANTH 572N Molecular Anthropology (Laboratory)
ANTH 572T Darwinian Medicine

Biology Department

BIOL 501 Molecular Genetics
BIOL 503 Molecular Biology Lab
BIOL 505 Functional Genomics and Proteomics
BIOL 532 Conceptual foundations in ecology, evolution and behavior
BIOL 533 Advanced Studies in EEB I
BIOL 534X Advanced Studies in EEB II
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
BIOL 680S Current topics in EvoS

Biomedical Engineering

BME-510 Modeling Complex Systems

English

ENG 593C New Humanities: Evolution & Culture

Geography Department

GEOG 522 Biogeography

Psychology Department

PSYC 509 Conditioning and Learning
PSYC 577 Human Neuropsychology

Systems Science and Industrial Engineering Department

SSIE 519: Applied Soft Computing
SSIE 616: Advanced Topics in Applied Soft Computing

Please send suggestions for additions or revisions to this list to evos@binghamton.edu.