A minimum of 30 units total must be taken. At least 15 units must be completed toward the MS requirements in letter-graded courses (vs. research or independent study units).

EIS MS requirements:

1. Two of three of the following core courses:

EIS 520 Insect Molecular Physiology (3 units)
EIS 544 Insect Ecology (3 units)
EIS 517 Insect Systematics (4 units)

These courses are all offered alternate years, so students will take them in their first or second year.

2. EIS 596A Current topics in Entomology & Insect Science Seminar (1 -3 units)

Course is taken two times, fall and spring semester in the first year of the program.

3. EIS 910 Thesis (8 units).

EIS courses available to MS majors:

EIS 501 Ecological Physiology (3 units)
EIS 513 Applied Biostatistics (3 units)
EIS 532 Comparative Immunology (3 units)
EIS 536 Agro-ecology (3 units)
EIS 553 Functional and Evolutionary Genomics (4 units)
EIS 557 Medical-Veterinary Entomology (3 units)
EIS 588 Principles of Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology (3 units)
EIS 597C Controlled Environment Agriculture IPM (3 units)
EIS 599 Independent Study (1 – 5 units)
EIS 660 Infectious Disease Epidemiology (3 units)
EIS 699 Independent Study (1 – 3 units)
EIS 900 Research (1 – 8 units)

In this interdisciplinary program, we encourage students to take courses in other programs that suit their developing interests, in consultation with their graduate committees.

Some popular courses include:

BIO 567 Pollination Ecology-Behavior, Cognition, & Ecology of Pollinators (3 units)
BIOS 576A Biostatistics in Public Health (3 units)
BIOS 576B Biostatistics for Research (3 units)
ECOL 506R Conservation Biology (3 units)
ECOL 519 Introduction to Modeling in Biology (3 units)
ECOL 526 Population Genetics (3 units)
ECOL 587R Animal Behavior (3 units)
ECOL 597S Topics in Social Insect Biology (2 units)
ECOL 600A Fundamentals of Evolution (3 units)
ECOL 600B Fundamentals of Ecology (3 units)
ENVS 567 Introductory Statistics and Multivariate Statistics with R (3 units)
EPID 573A Basic Principles of Epidemiology (3 units)
PLP 550 Principles of Plant Microbiology (4 units)
PLS 575S Physiology of Plant Production under Controlled Environment (3 units)

EISMS - Entomology & Insect Science

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