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Here are four possible areas in which students can create their own focused mini-curricula within the IB/OEB requirements. We encourage students to follow their interests in creating their own pathways within IB/OEB.



 

 Plant Sciences Marine Biology & Biological Oceanography Mathematical and Computational Biology Vertebrate Anatomy & Physiology 

## Plant Sciences

 

 

 **PLANT SCIENCES:**

1. **Courses for Non- and Pre-Concentrators**
    - OEB 10: Foundations of Biological Diversity (Fall)
    - Freshman Seminar 21w Research at the Harvard Forest: Global Change Ecology - Forests, Ecosystem Function, the Future (Fall)
2. **Introductory Courses in Plant Biology**
    - OEB 52 Biology of Plants (Spring)
    - OEB 59 Plants and Human Affairs (Spring)
3. **100-level Courses in Plant Biology**
    - OEB 103 Plant Systematics and Evolution (Spring)
    - OEB 106 Plant Development and Differentiation (Fall)
    - OEB 120 Plants and Climate (Fall)
    - OEB 168r Sociobotany; Life Cycles of Plants (Spring)
4. **Related Courses**
    - OEB 55 Ecology: Populations, Communities, and Ecosystems (Fall)
    - OEB 157 Global Change Biology (Fall)
    - **200-level Seminar Courses**
        - OEB 212r Advanced Topics in Plant Physiology (Fall)
        - OEB 268r Topics in Plant Developmental Genetics (Fall)
5. **Research Courses**
    - OEB 91r Supervised Reading
    - OEB 99r Supervised Research



 



 

 

 

## Marine Biology & Biological Oceanography

 

 

**MARINE BIOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY**:

1. **OEB courses with a strong marine component.**
    - OEB 51 Biology and Evolution of Invertebrate Animals (Spring)
    - OEB 60 Marine Biology (currently on hiatus)
    - OEB 119 Deep Sea Biology (Fall)
    - OEB 130 Patterns and Processes in Fish Diversity (Spring)
    - OEB 157 Global Change Biology (Fall)
2. **OEB courses with some focus on marine organisms**
    - OEB 177 Microbial Symbioses and Microbiomes (Spring)
3. **Related courses offered by other departments**
    - EPS 50: The Fluid Earth: Oceans, Atmosphere, Climate and Environment (Fall)
    - EPS 53: Marine Geochemistry (Fall
    - EPS 261 Sea Level Change (Spring)



 



 

 

 

## Mathematical and Computational Biology

 

 

**MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY**:

1. **Foundation Courses**
    - OEB 53 Evolutionary Biology (Fall)
    - OEB 55 Ecology: Populations, Communities, and Ecosystems (Fall)
    - Mathematics 21a,b (Fall, Spring)
    - Statistics 110, 111 (Fall, Spring)
    - Applied Math 10 Computing with Python for Scientists and Engineers (Fall)
2. **Advanced Courses**
    - OEB 242 Population Genetics (Spring)
    - OEB 125 Molecular Ecology & Evolution (Fall)
    - OEB 181 Systematics (Fall)
    - Applied Mathematics 115 Mathematical Modeling (Fall, Spring)
    - Mathematics 243 Mathematical Biology - Evolutionary Dynamics (Spring)
    - MCB 111 Mathematics in Biology (Fall)
    - MCB 112 Biological Data Analysis (Fall)
    - Statistics 115 Introduction to Bioinformatics and Statistical Genetics (Spring)
    - Statistics 117 Data analysis in modern biostatistics (Spring)
3. **Graduate Courses**
    - OEB 253r Evolutionary Genetics Seminar (Spring)



 



 

 

 

## Vertebrate Anatomy & Physiology

 

 

**VERTEBRATE ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY:**

1. **Introductory Courses**
    - LS 2 Evolutionary Human Physiology and Anatomy (Fall)
    - OEB 58 To Build an Animal (Fall)
2. **Mid-level and Advanced Courses**
    - OEB 130 Biology of Fishes (Spring)
    - OEB 167 Herpetology (Spring)
    - OEB 190 Biology and Diversity of Birds (Spring)
    - OEB 207 The Fishy Aspects of the Human Body
3. **Graduate Courses**
    - OEB 320 Biomechanics and Evolution of Vertebrates
    - OEB 323 Advanced Vertebrate Anatomy
4. **Relevant Courses in Human Evolutionary Biology**
    - HEB 50 Human Metabolism (Spring)
    - HEB 55 Human Evolutionary Anatomy (Spring)
    - HEB 130 Hormones & Behavior (Spring)
5. **Relevant Courses in Engineering Sciences**
    - ES 53 Quantitative Physiology as a Basis for Bioengineering (Fall)
    - ES 123 Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and Transport Processes (Spring)