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From foundations to frontier.
Academic credit and professional contact hours support degree, certificate, field, laboratory, and intensive pathways.
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9 courses
Foundations of Biological Systems
Introduces cellular, organismal, evolutionary, ecological, and systems perspectives on life.
Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences- Credits
- 3.0
- Contact hours
- 45.0
- Format
- Hybrid seminar
Genetics, Genomics & Inheritance
Develops genetic reasoning from inheritance and molecular mechanisms to genomic variation, population patterns, and ethical interpretation.
Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences- Credits
- 3.0
- Contact hours
- 45.0
- Format
- Hybrid seminar
Long-Read Sequencing & Nanopore Analysis
Covers long-read sequencing workflows from sample and library considerations through basecalling, quality control, alignment, variant analysis, and reproducible reporting.
Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences- Credits
- 4.0
- Contact hours
- 75.0
- Format
- Laboratory and research computing
Culture, Environment & Epigenetics
Examines how biological regulation and lived environments interact across development, stress, nutrition, exposure, behavior, and social life.
Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences- Credits
- 3.0
- Contact hours
- 45.0
- Format
- Hybrid seminar
Ecology & Environmental Systems
Introduces ecological relationships, energy and material flows, population and community dynamics, disturbance, resilience, and environmental observation.
Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences- Credits
- 3.0
- Contact hours
- 45.0
- Format
- Hybrid seminar
Earth Materials & Landscape Processes
Studies minerals, rocks, sediments, soils, geomorphic processes, and the material histories recorded in landscapes.
Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences- Credits
- 3.0
- Contact hours
- 45.0
- Format
- Hybrid seminar
Climate Systems & Human Adaptation
Connects atmospheric and oceanic processes, climate records, modeling, risk, adaptation, and cultural responses to environmental change.
Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences- Credits
- 3.0
- Contact hours
- 45.0
- Format
- Hybrid seminar
Environmental DNA Field Methods
Integrates field sampling, contamination control, molecular workflows, sequence analysis, and ecological interpretation for environmental DNA research.
Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences- Credits
- 4.0
- Contact hours
- 75.0
- Format
- Field and laboratory
Earth-Life Systems Capstone
Guides an integrative biological, earth, environmental, or planetary research project with documented methods and a defensible output.
Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences- Credits
- 4.0
- Contact hours
- 60.0
- Format
- Hybrid seminar
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