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.