Advanced Courses

A wide variety of advanced graduate courses is offered by NYCEP, drawing upon those given in the three university graduate programs in Anthropology, as well as those in such departments as Anatomy, Biology, Geology and Psychology, in some cases by faculty from WCS and AMNH. Among the NYCEP courses offered over the past several years are: Biological Variation of Human Populations, Biomathematics, Biostatistics, Cenozoic Stratigraphy and Geochronology, Comparative Morphology of Primates, Conservation Biology, Conservation Genetics, Culture and Biological Determinism, Ecological Studies in Anthropology, Evolutionary Genetics, Evolutionary Theory and Systematics, Extinction Biology, Genetic Approaches in Ecology and Evolution, Geometric Morphometrics and Multivariate Analysis, Human Biology and Adaptation, Human Evolution, Human Fossil Record, Human Skeletal Biology, Integrated Paleoanthropology (Human Paleontology, Geochronology and Paleolithic Archaeology), Issues in Conservation, Laboratory Methods in Mineralized Tissue Research, Laboratory Techniques in Molecular Genetics, Mammalogy, Molecular Phylogenetic Methods, Natural History of the Primates, Paleontology and Evolution, Population Ecology, Population Genetics, Primate Cognition, Primate Phylogeny, Primate Social Behavior, Primatology Field Methods, Quantitative Methods in Physical Anthropology, Research Methods in Primate Behavior, Skeletal Biology, Systematic Methodologies, and Tropical Forest Ecology and Conservation. Recent discussion-based seminar courses have focused on Cognitive Ecology, Communication and Cognition, Neanderthals, Primate Cognition, Sexual Selection, Species Concepts, New World Monkeys, Old World Monkeys and Natural History of Apes.

A Human Gross Anatomy course is offered by the medical schools at all three universities and is required for all students with morphological interests. Courses in other Ph.D. Programs in the three universities include Animal Behavior, Biogeography, Developmental Biology, Development and Evolution, Ecological Botany, Macroevolution, Mathematical Biology, Paleobiology of Vertebrates, Principles of Evolution, Scanning Electron Microscopic Techniques, and Stratigraphy.