Required courses, MS and PhD degrees

In addition to any statistics, colloquium and seminar requirements, all Ecology PhD and Masters students are required to successfully complete a total of five ecology-related courses as follows. (If you are doing a Minor in Ecology, please refer to the relevant requirements).

1) All PhD and Masters students need to successfully complete the following 2 courses

• Advances in Ecology (ECLGY 597B)
• Classic Ecology (ECLGY 510)

2) All PhD and Masters students need 6 credits from these courses

You need to complete 6 credits from at least 2 courses, from 2 of the following 3 categories:

Physiological Ecology

• Physiological Ecology (BIOL 544)
• Symbiosis (BIOL 406)
• Plant Ecology (HORT 445)(fall)
• Ecology of Plant Roots (HORT 517)(fall, even years)

Population Ecology

• Introduction to Population Dynamics (ENT 420)
• Population Ecology (BIOL 546)
• Wildlife Biometrics and Population Analysis (WFS 551)
• Ecological and Environmental Problem Solving (BIOL 519)

Community/Ecosystem Ecology

• Forest Ecology (FOR 508)
• Forest Geography (GEOG 411W)
• Wetland Ecology (W F S 550)
• Ecosystem Nutrient Cycles (SOILS 597a; fall semester, odd years)
• Soil Ecology (SOILS 412W; fall semester)
• Ecology of Agricultural Systems (AGRO 510; spring semester, even years)

3) Here are additional Ecology-related courses that you may consider as you develop a program of study with your Committee

Agronomy courses

• AGECO 497A (HORT) Principles and Practices of Organic Agriculture (spring, even years)
• AGRO 597D World Agroecosystems (fall, odd years)
• AGRO 410W Crop Science (spring)
• AGRO 510 Ecology of Agricultural Systems
• AGRO 518 Response of Plants to Environmental Stress (fall, odd years)

Biology courses

• BIOL 406 Symbiosis

• BIOL 412 Ecology Of Infectious Diseases
• BIOL 414 Taxonomy Of Seed Plants
• BIOL 415 Ecotoxicology
• BIOL 427 (GEOSC) Evolution
• BIOL 428 Population Genetics
• BIOL 429 Animal Behavior
• BIOL 436 Population Ecology And Global Climate Change
• BIOL 446 Physiological Ecology
• BIOL 450w Experimental Field Biology
• BIOL 464 (ANTH) Sociobiology
• BIOL 482 Coastal Biology
• BIOL 499a (IL) Tropical Field Ecology
• BIOL 505 Statistical Methods In Evolutionary Genetics
• BIOL 519 Ecological And Environmental Problem Solving
• BIOL 542 (ENT, W F S) Systematics
• BIOL 544 Advanced Physiological Ecology
• BIOL 545 Ecosystem Dynamics
• BIOL 546 Ecology Of Populations
• BIOL 563 General Ecology
• BIOL 593 (ANTH;ENT) Tropical Field Studies (Organization For Tropical Studies)

Entomology courses

• ENT 425 Freshwater Entomology
• ENT 539 Chemical Ecology Of Insects

Environmental Resource Management

• E R M 413w Case Studies In Ecosystem Management
• E R M 450 Wetland Conservation (fall)

Forestry courses

• FOR 409 Tree Physiology (spring, odd years)
• FOR 421 Silviculture: Applied Forest Ecology (fall)
• FOR 430 (W F S) Conservation Biology (fall)
• FOR 455 Remote Sensing And Spatial Data Handling (fall)
• FOR 466w Forest Resource Management (spring)
• FOR 508 Forest Ecology (spring, even years)
• FOR 521 Advanced Silviculture: Managing Forest Ecosystems (spring)
• FOR 550 Multivariate Analysis In Forestry Research (fall)
• FOR 555 Multispectral Remote Sensing

Geography courses

• GEOG 501C Research Perspectives in Human-Environment Geography
• GEOG 509 Population Geography Seminar

Geoscience courses

• GEOSC 542 Quantitative Methods in Hydrogeology

Horticulture courses

• HORT 402W Plant Nutrition (spring)
• HORT 445: Plant Ecology (fall)
• HORT 514: Modern Techniques and Concepts in Plant Ecophysiology (spring)
• HORT 517: Ecology of Plant Roots (fall, even years)

Meteorology courses

• METEO 563 Bioclimatology

Plant Biology courses

• PLBIO 512 Plant Resource Acquisition And Utilization
• PLBIO 513 Integrative Plant Communication And Growth
• PLBIO 514 (HORT) Modern Techniques And Concepts In Plant Ecophysiology
• PLBIO 515 (BIOL) Modern Techniques And Concepts In Plant Cell Biology
• PLBIO 516 (BIOL) Modern Techniques And Concepts In Plant Molecular Biology

Sociology courses

• SOC 423 Social Demography
• SOC 523 Internal and International Migration

Soils courses

• SOILS 412w Soil Ecology (fall)
• SOILS 415 Soil Mapping And Land Use (fall)
• SOILS 416 Soil Genesis (fall, even years)
• SOILS 512 Environmental Soil Microbiology (spring, odd years)
• SOILS 516 Soil Genesis Field Component; after Spring Semester classes end; 1 week
• SOILS 597c Soil Properties And Functions (fall)

Statistics courses

The Department of Statistics offers a range of applied and theoretical statistic courses

Courses that Ecology students found useful to meet their statistics requirements:

• WFS 560 Estimation of Fish and Wildlife Population Parameters
• ENT 597G Biostatistical Analysis
• STAT 502 Analysis of Variance
• STAT 505 Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis
• STAT 510 Time Series Analysis
• STAT 511 Regression Analysis and Modeling
• STAT 512 Design and Analysis of Experiments

Wildlife and Fisheries Science courses

• W F S 407 Ornithology
• W F S 408 Mammalogy
• W F S 409 Mammalogy Laboratory
• W F S 430 (FOR) Conservation Biology (fall)
• W F S 446 Wildlife And Fisheries Population Dynamics
• W F S 447 Wildlife Management
• W F S 452 Ichthyology
• W F S 453 Ichthyology Laboratory
• W F S 463 Fishery Management
• W F S 536 Freshwater Field Ecology
• W F S 542 Systematics
• W F S 550 Wetland Ecology and Management
• W F S 551 Wildlife Biometrics and Population Analysis
• W F S 552 Systematics and Evolution of Fishes
• W F S 560 Estimation of Fish and Wildlife Population Parameters