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Eligible Elective Courses for the Ph.D. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Courses by Category

Prescribed Electives

The following table lists courses central to EEB according to whether they fit into the Ecology, Evolution, or Quantitative categories. Students entering with an undergraduate degree will be required to take one course from each of the three categories; students with a master’s degree will be required to take courses from two out of the three categories. These courses will typically be taken in the second year of studies.

Note: The classes below can also be used as free electives once the Prescribed Elective requirements have been fulfilled. For other possible Free Electives, see the Relevant Graduate Course page.

Update: Beginning Fall 2022 ESSM, RENR, and WFSC course prefixes, and in some cases, course names will change to reflect the department in which each course now belongs, either the Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology (ECCB) or Rangeland, Wildlife, and Fisheries Management (RWFM). For a full guide to these courses, visit ECCB Legacy Course Guide.

Do you teach a course that would be a good addition to the prescribed electives list? Faculty members may petition to add a course they teach to the prescribed electives list by sending an updated syllabus and justification email to the EEB Curriculum Chair or Program Coordinator. The justification letter is a brief statement (a few sentences) about how the course is relevant to EEB graduate education.

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Ecology

Dept No. Course Title Instructor Taught
ECCB 600 Populations, Communities & Ecosystems
(elective or core but not both)
Winemiller Fall
ECCB 613 Dynamics of Population
(previously WFSC 624)
Fujiwara Fall
ECCB 621 Physiological Plant Ecology
(previously ESSM 621)
West Fall
ECCB 630 Advanced Restoration Ecology
(previously ECCB 689)
Rogers Spring
ECCB 655 Applied Biodiversity Science I
(previously WFSC/RPTS 655)
Fitzgerald/
Stronza
Spring,
even yrs
ENTO 614 Insect Community Ecology Coulson Spring,
odd yrs
ENTO 616 Chemical Ecology Helms Fall,
odd yrs
ENTO/
GEOG
625 Landscape Ecology Coulson Fall
ENTO/
VIBS
626 Methods in Vector-borne Disease Ecology Hamer, S
Hamer, G
Spring,
odd yrs
ENTO 689 Special Topics: Chemical Ecology Helms Fall,
odd yrs
ESSM 689 Special Topics in Modeling Ecological
Niches and Species Distributions
(Ecology or Quantitative elective but not both)
Lawing Spring
GEOL 650 Paleoecology Belanger Varies

Evolution

Dept No. Course Title Instructor Taught
BIOL 610 Evolution
(elective or core but not both)
Delmore/
Criscione
Fall
ECCB 602 Molecular Evolution
(previously WFSC/GENE 648)
Casola Spring,
even yrs
ECCB/
ENTO
606 Quantitative Phylogenetics Mateos Spring
ECCB 634 Conservation Genetics
(previously WFSC 633)
Hurtado Spring,
even yrs
ECCB 689 Special Topics in Shape of Evolution
(Evolution or Quantitative elective but not both)
Lawing Fall,
odd yrs
ECCB 645 Ecological Genomics Casola Spring,
odd yrs
ENTO 601 Principles of Systematic Entomology Song Fall,
even yrs
MARB 668 Marine Evolutionary Biology
(Galveston only)
Schulze/
Kitchen
Spring

Quantitative

Dept Number Course Title Instructor Taught
BIOL 683 Experimental Design in Biology Blackmon Fall
ECCB 631 Ecological Applications in R Perkin Spring
ECCB 660 Landscape Analysis & Modeling
(previously ESSM 660)
Wu Spring
ECCB 689 Special Topics in Shape of Evolution
(Evolution or Quantitative elective but not both)
Lawing Fall,
odd yrs
ESSM/
MEPS/
EEBL
689 Ecological Genomics
(Evolution or Quantitative elective but not both)
Casola Spring,
odd yrs
ESSM 689 Special Topics in Modeling Ecological
Niches and Species Distributions
(Ecology or Quantitative elective but not both)
Lawing Spring
GEOL 651 Paleoecological Community Analysis Belanger/
Bapst
Spring
GEOL 670 Geological Data Analysis Bapst Fall
STAT 651 Statistics in Research I TBA Every
semester
STAT 652 Statistics in Research II TBA Every
semester

Free Electives and Dissertation Hours

Depending on individual student needs, students will, in consultation with their dissertation committee, choose additional courses and/or dissertation hours to complete their degree requirements.

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