Undergraduate Courses
Key Courses
Evolution for Everyone (BIOL 105)
4 credits. Offered each fall. Satisfies BU’s General Education Social Science requirement. Recommended introduction for those new to evolution. As of winter session 2008, now available as an online course!
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 each semester in association with the EvoS seminar series. Required at least twice for undergraduate certificate.
This course is built on the EvoS seminar series, which brings distinguished speakers to campus at regular 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. Important Note: Not all courses are offered every year or even on a repeating basis.
Anthropology Department
- ANTH 168 Introduction to Biological Anthropology/Human Evolution
- ANTH 246 Sex & Evolution
- ANTH 247 Human Genetics
- ANTH 248 Darwinian Medicine
- ANTH 335 Human Origins
- ANTH 336 Human skeleton
- ANTH 337 Human Biological Variation
- ANTH 338 Introduction to the Primates
- ANTH 380J Recent Human Evolution
- ANTH 428 Molecular Anthropology Lab
- ANTH 480B Evolution and Human Behavior
- ANTH 480T Molecular Anthropology Theory
- ANTH 480S Evolution of Language (LING 449S)
Department of Biological Sciences
- BIOL 117 Introduction to organismal and population biology
- BIOL 301 Molecular Genetics
- BIOL 330 Genes and Heredity
- BIOL 333 Self-Organizing Systems
- BIOL 340 Genetics Lab
- BIOL 351 Mechanisms of evolution
- BIOL 355 Ecology
- BIOL 370 Botany
- BIOL 372 Paleobiology
- BIOL 373 Ecological principles and applications
- BIOL 375 Animal behavior
- BIOL 377 Plant Systematics
- BIOL 378 Macroevolution
- BIOL 425 Molecular Biology Lab
- BIOL 428 Genomics and Proteomics
- BIOL 441 Molecular Ecology Lab
- BIOL 450 Conceptual foundations in ecology, evolution and behavior
- BIOL 452 Cultural evolutionary theory
- BIOL 453 Sociobiology
- BIOL 454 Behavioral ecology of Primates
- BIOL 472 Tropical ecology and conservation
- BIOL 473 Southwest ecology
- BIOL 476 Population ecology
- BIOL 477X Conservation Biology
- BIOL 480L Becoming an Everyday Scientist
- BIOL 480Q Biology of sexual orientation
- BIOL 480R Mother Nature
- BIOL 480S Pheromones and animal behavior
- BIOL 483V Advanced animal behavior
Bioengineering Department
- BE-201 Self-Organizing Systems
- BE-202 Biological Networks
- BE-301 Modeling Nature
- BE-302 Adaptive Systems
- BE-331 Biologically Inspired Design
- BE-461 Exploring Social Dynamics
Economics Department
- ECON 335 Economics & Evolution
- ECON 383F Evolutionary economics
- ECON 461 Game theory
English
- ENG 450S New Humanities: Evolution & Culture
- ENG 300O Evolution, Literature, & Cinema
Environmental Studies
- ENVI 481E Evolving Local Sustainability
Geography Department
- GEOG 422/459 Biogeography
Human Development
- HDEV 382B Psychology of Women’s Bodies
- HDEV 382A (Summer) Psychology and Culture of Pregnancy, Childhood and Motherhood
Linguistics Department
- LING 449S Evolution of Language (ANTH 480S)
Philosophy Department
- PHIL 121 Methods of Reasoning
- PHIL 313 Science & Religion
Psychology Department
- PSYC 111 Introductory Psychology
- PSYC 327 Evolution and Behavior
- PSYC 473M Seminar in Evolutionary Psychology
Please send suggestions for additions or revisions to this list to evos@binghamton.edu.



