Approved 100-level and 200-level electives for the A.B. and B.S. in Biological Anthropology and Anatomy and Evolutionary Anthropology
Note that there may be other courses (especially “special topics” courses; study abroad courses) that would be appropriate as electives. To have a course not on this list considered as an elective, you will need to petition your advisor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS) in writing. Be sure to include a detailed explanation of how the course relates to Evolutionary Anthropology/BAA and your particular line of study in EvAnth/BAA. Both your advisor and the DUS must approve the petition. [newly added courses are in bold]
Biology
BIO 108L Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrates
BIO 109 Conservation Biology and Policy
BIO 110L Ecology
BIO 111 Principles of Animal Morphology
BIO 116 Fundamentals of Ecology and Evolution
BIO 118 Genetics and Molecular Biology
BIO 121 Evolution of Animal Form
BIO 122 Population Genetics
BIO 124 Molecular Evolution
BIO 129L Marine Ecology
BIO 134 (L) Fundamentals in Tropical Biology
BIO 135L Research Methods in Topical Biology
BIO 137 South African Ecosystems
BIO 138 Field Research in Savana Ecology
BIO 149S Comparative Biomechanics
BIO150L Physiology of Marine Animals
BIO 151L Principles of Animal Physiology
BIO 154 Fundamentals of Neuroscience
BIO 156L Sensory Physiology and Behavior of Marine Animals
BIO 160 Population Ecology
BIO 166 Evolution of Animal Behavior
BIO 167 Learning and Adaptive Behavior
BIO 168 Comparative Psychology
BIO 187 Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics
Bio 195S Special Topics: Genomes, Biology and Medicine
BIO 204LS Field Ecology
BIO 215 Tropical Ecology
BIO 237 Systematic Biology
BIO 256S Speciation
BIO 259S The Life and Work of Darwin
BIO 266 Statistical Analysis of Ecological Data (no longer offered)
BIO 267L Biodiversity Science and application (formally Community Ecology) (name change)
BIO 268 Models for Environmental Data
BIO 270S Genetics and the Evolution of Complex Traits (formally: Genomics and Evolution) name change
BIO 271 Genomics
BIO 276S Animal Communication and Social Behavior (no longer offered)
BIO 277S Foundations of Behavioral Ecology (no longer offered)
BIO 278S Genetic Basis of Behavior
BIO 284 Molecular Population Genetics
BIO 286 Evolutionary Mechanisms (no longer offered)
BIO 292 Population Ecology
Note that independent studies in Biology must have their topics approved by the DUS for credit as a BAA elective. The topic of study must be closely tied to the study of evolutionary anthropology.
Biochemistry
BCH 227 Introductory Biochemistry [note: will not count toward capstone for EvAnth majors]
Biomedical Engineering
BME 110L Introductory Biomechanics
Chemistry
Chem 151 or Chem 152 (only one may be used toward an elective credit)
Cultural Anthropology
CA 144
Earth and Ocean Sciences
EOS 126S Field Methods in Earth and Env. Sciences [can count as field/lab credit]
EOS 145L Fossils and Their Applications {no longer offered}
EOS 209S Paleoclimate
EOS 210S Paleoenvironmental Analysis
Economics - note that students studying the evolution/ecology of behavior may be interested in some advanced level courses in economics (e.g., game theory, models of cooperation and conflict). See your advisor or the DUS about pre-reqs and appropriate courses.
Environmental Sciences and Policy
ENVIRON 103D: Conserving the Variety of Life on Earth
ENVIRON 203 Conservation Biology
ENVIRON 217 Tropical Ecology
Philosophy
PHIL 104: Foundations of Scientific Reasoning
PHIL 114 Philosophy of Biology (cross-listed with Bio 174)
PHIL 142 Problems in the Philosophy of Science
Psychology and Neuroscience
PSY 111 Learning and Adaptive Behavior
PSY 112 Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience
PSY 117 Statistical Methods (accepted for Stats requirement)
PSY 120 Comparative Psychology (cross-listed with Bio 168)
PSY 126 Behavior and Neurochemistry
PSY 135 Fundamentals of Neuroscience (cross-listed with Bio 154)
PSY 141S Emotions and the Brain
PSY 142S Thought without Language
PSY 146S Functional Anatomy of the Human Brain
PSY 147S The developing mind and brain: developmental, cognitive neuroscience
PSY 148S Neuroscience and cognitive aging [to be dropped after 2008]
PSY 150S Hormones and Behavior
PSY 181BS Laboratory in Animal Mind, Learning and Adaptive Behavior
PSY 223S Animal Learning and Cognition: A Neural Network Approach
PSY 227S Behavioral Physiology: Basic Systems
PSY 242 Non-verbal Cognition
PSY 250S Hormones, Brain and Cognition
PSY 267S Language, Brain and Human Behavior
PSY 268S Brain and Language [to be dropped after 2008]
Sociology
SOC 132B Quantitative Analysis of Sociological Data [counts toward statistics requirement for BS major]
Statistics
Any 100-level stats course (typically 101 or 102) can be used as an elective (and also count toward the statistics requirement for the BS major)
Updated 6/08