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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 245 or EEB 245W; EEB 207 or 293W; and at least one course from each of the following groups:

Group I--Ecological Systems and Processes
EEB 208 Introduction to Conservation Biology
EEB 209W Soil Degredation & Conservation
EEB 247 Limnology
EEB 294 Marine Biology
EEB 296 Physiological Ecology of Animals
EEB 301 Population & Community Ecology
EEB 302 Organisms and Ecosystems
EEB 310 Conservation Biology
 
Group II--Plant Diversity
EEB 203 Developmental Plant Morphology
EEB 204 Aquatic Plant Biology
EEB 240 Biology of Bryophytes and Lichens
EEB 256 Plants & Civilization
EEB 271 Systematic Botany
EEB 272 The Summer Flora
EEB 276 Plant Anatomy
EEB 280(W) Evolution of Green Plants
EEB 290 Biology of the Algae
 
Group III--Animal Diversity
EEB 200 Biology of Fishes
EEB 214 Biology of the Vertebrates
EEB 252 Field Entomology
EEB 254 Mammalogy
EEB 265 Herpetology
EEB 273 Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
EEB 275 Invertebrate Zoology
EEB 281 Ornithology (*Taken with EEB 287)
EEB 287 Ornithology Laboratory (*Taken with EEB 281)
EEB 283 Introduction to Animal Parasitology
EEB 286 General Entomology