Undergraduate Courses

Evolution for Everyone (BIOL 105)

4 credits. Offered each fall. Satisfies BU’s General Education Social Science requirement.

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 each semester in association with the EvoS seminar series. Required at least twice for undergraduate certificate.

This course is built upon 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 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 Courses and Seminars

Important Note: This list of courses will be updated soon. If you think that a course should be included that is not on the list (whether it is a course you are offering or a course you are taking), please send a suggestion to evos@binghamton.edu.

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 278 Sex & Evolution
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 populationBiology
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