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Requirements

The minor consists of approximately five courses (a minimum of 16 credit hours) beyond the prerequisite course. Of these five, up to two courses may also be used toward meeting curricular requirements for the student’s major or another minor requirement concurrently. Students cannot obtain an EEB minor if they already have a concentration in EEB.

Prerequisite:
Biology 150 – Organismal and Ecological Biology (3 credits)

Minor:
3 credits Foundational Knowledge
EEB 205 – Theories and Methods of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (3 credits)

3 credits Quantitative Skills

Choose one:
● EEB 406 – Models in Biology
● EEB 411 – Biostatistics
● EEB 475 – Mathematical Biology for Non-Math People

A minimum of 10 credits of EEB coursework from the following list
(other EEB courses may be petitioned in with the approval of the Department):
● EEB 304 – Socio-Economic Impact of Plants
● EEB 310 – Evolution, Disease, and Medicine *
● EEB 311 – Career and Professional Development
● EEB 330 – Field Botany ^
● EEB 351 – Field Mycology ^
● EEB 353 – Comparative Vertebrate Biology ^
● EEB 370 – Evolutionary Psychology and Ethology
● EEB 401 – Natural History Collections Research
● EEB 409 – Perspectives in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
● EEB 410 – Ecological and Evolutionary Developmental Biology
● EEB 419 – Global Change Ecology
● EEB 420 – Fungal Diversity
● EEB 422 – Landscape Ecology
● EEB 423 – Conservation Decision Making
● EEB 424 – Plant Diversity and Evolution ^
● EEB 430 – Invasion Biology
● EEB 432 – Conservation Genomics
● EEB 435 – Ecophysiology
● EEB 450 – Comparative Animal Behavior
● EEB 451 – Research Ethics *
● EEB 454 – Animal Communication
● EEB 464 – Macroevolution
● EEB 471 – Aquatic Macroecology and Conservation
● EEB 480 – Natural History of the Smoky Mountains
● EEB 481 – Avian Diversity
● EEB 485 – Ethnobiology: Theory and Methods

And/or a maximum of 4 credit hours from:
● EEB 400 – Undergraduate Research
● EEB 407 – Senior Honors Thesis
● EEB 493 – Independent Study