Courses
What would you like to do after you finish an undergraduate degree at UW?
Forming an idea of what you would like to do after graduation will help you choose which courses to take while you are here. Below is a list of courses offered in the various Degree Program curricula. They have been grouped loosely into Entry Points, Foundation Courses, and Electives. For lists of prerequisites please refer to the Degree Programs or the UW Course Catalog. Where possible but excluding the Electives, an indication of a career path relying on each course has been made.
Possible career paths include: Biotech Research (BR), Conservation and Restoration (CR), Design and Planning (DP), Graduate School in the Natural Sciences (GS), Horticulture (H), Policy and Planning (PP).
Entry points:
BIOL 116 Introduction to Plant Biology
BIOL 117/317 Plant ID and Classification (CR, DP, H, GS)
BIOL 161/162 Introductory Biology (CR, H)
BIOL 180/200/220 Introductory Biology (BR, CR, GS)
ESRM 101 Forests and Society (CR, PP)
Foundation courses:
BIOL 350 Foundations in Physiology (GS)
BIOL 354 Foundations in Evolution and Systematics (GS)
BIOL 355 Foundations in Molecular & Cell Biology (GS)
BIOL 356 Foundations in Ecology (GS)
(enrollment in the above 4 courses is limited to Biology majors in Prereg period 1)
BIOL 117/317 Plant ID and Classification (CR, DP, H, GS)
BIOL 425 Plant Physiology (BR, GS, H)
BIOL 426 Plant Physiology Lab (BR, GS, H)
BIOL 441 Plant Anatomy and Morphology (GS, H)
ESRM 210 Introductory Soils (CR, DP, H)
ESRM 362 Introduction to Restoration Ecology (CR)
Electives:
BIOL 222 Natural History of Puget Sound
BIOL/ESRM 331 Landscape Plant ID
BIOL 416 Molecular Plant Development
BIOL 423 Marine Physiological Ecology
BIOL 424 Plant EcoPhysiology
BIOL 440 Mycology
BIOL 442 Mushrooms and Related Fungi
BIOL/FHL 445 Marine Botany (must co-enroll in BIOL 430 Marine Zoology)
BIOL 446 Biology of Algae
BIOL 448 Marine Algal Ecology
BIOL 456 Vegetation of Western Washington
BIOL 471 Plant Ecology
BIOL 489 Senior Seminar in Plant Reproduction
ESRM 301 Maintaining Nature in an Urban World
ESRM 302 Sustainability in Production Lands
ESRM 310 Trees in Our Environment
ESRM 311 Soils and Land Use
ESRM 315 Old Growth and Forest Management
ESRM 323 Silviculture
ESRM 324 Forest Protection
ESRM 401 Spring Comes to the Cascades
ESRM 402 Curation and Education in Public Gardens
ESRM 403 Forest & Economic Development in the Developing World
ESRM 404 Forest Science Inquiry for Teachers
ESRM 409 Forest Soil Microbiology
ESRM 410 Forest Soils and Site Productivity
ESRM 411 Plant Propagation
ESRM 412 Native Plant Produciton
ESRM 415 Biology of Invasive Plants
ESRM 424 Forest Stand Dynamics
ESRM 425 Ecosystem Management
ESRM/BES 462/3/4 Restoration Capstone
ESRM 471 Urban Forest Landscapes
ESRM 472 Wetland Ecology
ESRM 473 Principles of Ecological Restoration
ESRM 477 Wetland Restoration
ESRM 480 Selection and Management of Landscape Plants
FISH 428 Stream Restoration
FISH 447 Watershed Ecology and management
FISH 547 Stream and River Ecology
OCEAN 431 Biological Oceanography
LARCH 363 Ecological Design and Planning
ANTHRO 458 Ethnobiology: Plants, Animals, People
ENVR 201 Environ. Case Studies: Ecology and Conservation
ENVR 203 Environ. Case Studies: Intro to Sustainable Practices
BES 312 Ecological Science
BES 316 Ecological Methods
BES 487 Wildland Soils and Plants
BES 488 Wetland Ecology
BES 489 Pacific Northwest Ecosystems
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