Graduate Programs
Graduate groups combine the talents and skills of faculty from a broad range of research areas to allow learning from a network of diverse scholars to afford students opportunities outside traditional department structures.
- Animal Behavior (ANB)
The Davis campus has a distinguished history of teaching and research in the life sciences including animal behavior. The Animal Behavior Graduate Group is an interdepartmental program in which faculty members from several departments, schools, and colleges participate. Members of the Group employ a wide range of animal species in their research as well as a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches.
Degrees Offered:
M.S. Plan II
under special circumstances only
Ph.D. Plan C- Graduate Group in Ecology
Students gain advanced knowledge in one of the following areas: agricultural ecology; conservation ecology; ecological genomics and genetics; ecosystems and landscape ecology; ecotoxicology; environmental policy & human ecology; integrative ecology; marine ecology; physiological ecology; or restoration ecology. Students graduate with the qualitative and quantitative skills necessary for professional research and teaching in ecological theory and its applications.
Degrees Offered:
M.S. Plan I
M.S. Plan II
Ph.D. Plan B- Integrative Genetics and Genomics (IGG)
Students in Integrative Genetics and Genomics experience an unsurpassed breadth of research and instructional opportunities from the most fundamental to applied aspects of genetics. They gain advanced knowledge of the application of genomic, molecular, and classical genetic approaches to study model organisms, a broad range of native and agricultural species, humans, and companion animals. Our graduates leave our program with the qualitative and quantitative skills necessary for professional research and teaching in genetics.
Degrees Offered:
M.S. Plan I
M.S. Plan II
Ph.D. Plan B- Population Biology (PBG)
Students gain advanced knowledge of population growth; structure and dynamics; population interactions; community ecology; food webs; biogeography; behavioral and physiological ecology; life history strategies; systematics; evolution; population and quantitative genetics; and genomics. Students graduate with the qualitative and quantitative skills necessary for professional research and teaching in ecology, evolution, population genetics and systematics.
Degrees Offered:
M.S. Plan I
under special circumstances only
M.S. Plan II
under special circumstances only
Ph.D. Plan B
Graduate Courses
The courses below are drawn directly from the UC Davis General Catalog. Course descriptions are maintained through the General Catalog to ensure you have access to the most up-to-date information.