Descriptions of graduate courses at Penn State

Current semester schedule listings of courses

Courses taught by Professor Hedges:

Undergraduate (every fall semester):

BIOLOGY 427 ­ Evolution: a comprehensive course in evolutionary biology, covering concepts (history, Darwin, etc.), Earth history, the origin of life, fossil record, macroevolution, adaptation, systematics, genes and populations, molecular evolution, molecular phylogenetics, speciation, biogeography, coevolution, primate evolution, biodiversity, and astrobiology. (3 credits) 

Graduate (usually each fall semester):

BIOLOGY 514 ­ Topics in Evolution: exploration of recent literature in evolutionary biology. (2 credits)