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Program Overview

The ecology and evolution major provides students with interdisciplinary skills necessary for understanding and solving complex problems in behavior, ecology, evolution, and physiology, and includes a focus on both basic concepts and aspects that can be applied to important environmental problems, including genetic and ecological aspects for conservation biology and biodiversity. Ecology and evolution addresses questions on a wide variety of scales, from molecular or chemical mechanisms up to issues that apply to large spatial and temporal scales.

Coastal science field research
Department
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Program Type
  • Major
  • 4+1 Bachelors & Masters
Area of Focus
  • Science & Math
  • Environmental Science & Sustainability

Requirements

Please view the requirements for the major here. For transfers, please note that this is a screening major with additional requirements.

First Year
Transfer

Career Outcomes

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department degrees are designed to prepare students to go on to:

  • Graduate programs
  • Positions in industry, government, or NGO’s
  • Medical, dental, or veterinary medicine schools.

Program Contact

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department

apartment Coastal Biology Building 105A, 130 McAllister Way

email eebadvising@ucsc.edu

Coastal science research lab
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Program Keywords
  • Biodiversity
  • Conservation
  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Population Ecology
  • Ecosystems