EIS PhD Program Requirements

EIS PhD Program Requirements

Minimum Credit Units: 63

Required Core Coursework:

Minimum credits for Major: 45
Minimum credits for Minor: 9
Minimum credits for dissertation: 18

These units include 36 units toward the major and 9 counting toward the minor.  At least half of these (23 units or more) must be taken in letter-graded courses (vs. research or independent study units).  These units will include EIS courses, courses in the minor, other courses chosen from the schedule of classes and approved by the Graduate Committee, and research and independent study units.  Eligible transfer courses may also be included in this tally. 

EIS Course requirements

1. At least 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 four (4) times, fall & spring semester in the first and second year of the program. 

3. At least two research rotations EIS 792 (3 units).  One rotation needs to be completed in a laboratory other than the advisor of record.
4. EIS 920 Dissertation (18 units).
5. PhD minor consisting of at least 9 units.
Other courses that may be taken by EIS students include:

  • 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)