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Environmental Science Concentration:

Environmental Biology

Supporting Department: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
(College of Liberal Arts & Sciences)

 

Concentration objectives:
The objectives of this concentration are to provide students with both technical expertise and conceptual understanding in the field of environmental biology. The technical aspects of the curriculum include: 1) field and laboratory methods in ecology and 2) thorough reviews of the major groups of plants and animals. These techniques and knowledge of natural history serve as the basis for investigating the mechanisms and principles that govern patterns of distribution and abundance of plants and animals in the natural environment. This is a concentration that trains students to know what the world's biological resources are, how they interact in complex ecosystems, and how that knowledge can be applied to conserve the diversity of biological systems.
   

Required course work:
All students must complete EEB 2245 (245) or EEB 2245W (2245W); EEB 3307 (207) or 4230WC (293WC); and at least one course from each of the following groups:

Group I--Ecological Systems and Processes
EEB 2208 (208) Introduction to Conservation Biology (Offered Spring semester)
EEB 3209W (209W) Soil Degredation & Conservation (Offered Spring semester, alternate years)
EEB 3247 (247) Limnology (Offered Fall semester)
EEB 3230 (294) Marine Biology (Offered Fall semester (Storrs), Spring semester (Avery Point)
EEB 4215 (296) Physiological Ecology of Animals (Offered Spring semester, alternate years)
EEB 5301 (301) Population & Community Ecology  
EEB 5302 (302) Organisms and Ecosystems  
EEB 5310 (310) Conservation Biology  
 
Group II--Plant Diversity
EEB 3203 (203) Developmental Plant Morphology (Offered Fall semester, alternate years)
EEB 3204 (204) Aquatic Plant Biology (Offered Fall semester, alternate years)
EEB 3240 (240) Biology of Bryophytes and Lichens (Offered Spring semester, alternate years)
EEB 3256 (256) Plants & Civilization  
EEB 3271 (271) Systematic Botany (Offered Spring semester, alternate years)
EEB 4272 (272) The Summer Flora (Offered Summer session)
EEB 4276 (276) Plant Anatomy (Offered Fall semester, alternate years)
EEB 3220(W) (280(W)) Evolution of Green Plants  
EEB 3250 (290) Biology of the Algae (Offered Fall semester, alternate years)
 
Group III--Animal Diversity
EEB 4200 (200) Biology of Fishes (Offered Spring semester, alternate years)
EEB 2214 (214) Biology of the Vertebrates (Offered Fall semester)
EEB 4252 (252) Field Entomology  
EEB 3254 (254) Mammalogy (Offered Fall semester, alternate years)
EEB 3265 (265) Herpetology (Offered Spring semester, alternate years)
EEB 3273 (273) Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy (Offered Fall semester, alternate years)
EEB 4275 (275) Invertebrate Zoology (Offered Fall semester, alternate years)
EEB 4260 (281) Ornithology (*Taken with EEB 4261) (Offered Spring semester)
EEB 4261 (287) Ornithology Laboratory (*Taken with EEB 4260) (Offered Spring semester)
EEB 4274 (283) Introduction to Animal Parasitology (Offered Fall semester, alternate years)
EEB 4250 (286) General Entomology (Offered Fall semester)
      
      

  Environmental Science Degree Program
  University of Connecticut

  225 Beach Hall, Unit 2045
  ph. 860.486-5218     fx. 860.486.1383

  enviroscience@uconn.edu