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2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog

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2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Minor

Campus: Knoxville

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:

BIOL 150* - Organismal and Ecological Biology 3 Credit Hours

Minor

3 Hours Foundational Knowledge

EEB 205* - Theory and Methods in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 3 Credit Hours

3 Hours Quantitative Skills

Choose one:

EEB 406* - Models in Biology 3 Credit Hours
EEB 411* - Biostatistics 3 Credit Hours
EEB 475* - Mathematical Biology for Non-Math People 3 Credit Hours

A minimum of 10 hours of EEB coursework from the following list

(other EEB courses may be petitioned with the approval of the Department):

EEB 304 - Socio-Economic Impact of Plants 3 Credit Hours
EEB 310* - Evolution, Disease, and Medicine 3 Credit Hours
EEB 311 - Career and Professional Development 1 Credit Hours
EEB 330* - Field Botany 3 Credit Hours
EEB 351 - Field Mycology 4 Credit Hours
EEB 353 - Comparative Vertebrate Biology 4 Credit Hours
EEB 370 - Evolutionary Psychology and Ethology 3 Credit Hours
EEB 401 - Natural History Collections Research 1 Credit Hours
EEB 409 - Perspectives in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 3 Credit Hours
EEB 410 - Ecological and Evolutionary Developmental Biology 3 Credit Hours
EEB 419* - Global Change Ecology 3 Credit Hours
EEB 420 - Fungal Diversity 3 Credit Hours
EEB 422 - Landscape Ecology 3 Credit Hours
EEB 423 - Conservation Decision Making 3 Credit Hours
EEB 424 - The Evolution of Plant Diversity 3 Credit Hours
EEB 430 - Invasion Biology 3 Credit Hours
EEB 432 - Conservation Genomics 3 Credit Hours
EEB 435 - Ecophysiology 3 Credit Hours
EEB 450 - Animal Behavior 3 Credit Hours
EEB 451* - Research Ethics 3 Credit Hours
EEB 454 - Animal Communication 3 Credit Hours
EEB 464 - Macroevolution 3 Credit Hours
EEB 471* - Aquatic Macroecology and Conservation 4 Credit Hours
EEB 481 - Avian Diversity 3 Credit Hours
EEB 485 - Ethnobiology: Theory and Methods 3 Credit Hours

And/or a maximum of 4 hours from:

EEB 400 - Undergraduate Research 1-2 Credit Hours
EEB 407 - Senior Honors Thesis 3 Credit Hours
EEB 493 - Independent Study 1-9 Credit Hours
* Meets Volunteer Core Requirement.