| Day | Date | Topic | Reading | Lab | ||
| M | 17-Jan | Martin Luther King Day | ||||
| W | 19-Jan | 1 | Intro to Evolution | no labs | ||
| F | 21-Jan | 2 | Phylogenetic methods | |||
| M | 24-Jan | 3 | Stratton 1 | |||
| W | 26-Jan | 4 | Adaptation | Molecular clocks | ||
| F | 28-Jan | 5 | Mutation and variation | |||
| M | 31-Jan | 6 | Allele Frequencies | Stratton 2 | ||
| W | 2-Feb | 7 | Population Structure | Stratton 3 | Phylogenetics | |
| F | 4-Feb | 8 | Inbreeding | |||
| M | 7-Feb | 9 | Drift | Stratton 4 | ||
| W | 9-Feb | 10 | Drift 2 | Genetic Drift/ start competition expt. | ||
| F | 11-Feb | 11 | Natural Selection | Stratton 6 | ||
| M | 14-Feb | 12 | ||||
| W | 16-Feb | 13 | Molecular Evoiution | |||
| F | 18-Feb | 14 | Evolution of Resistance | Stratton 7 | ||
| M | 21-Feb | President's Day No Class | ||||
| W | 23-Feb | 15 | Mutation-selection balance | Antibiotic Resistance | ||
| F | 25-Feb | 16 | Quantitative genetics | Stratton 8 | ||
| M | 28-Feb | 17 | Exam 1 | |||
| W | 2-Mar | 18 | Antibiotic Resistance | |||
| F | 4-Mar | 19 | Correlated Characters | Stratton 9 | ||
| M | 7-Mar | |||||
| W | 9-Mar | Spring Break | ||||
| F | 11-Mar | |||||
| M | 14-Mar | 20 | Sexual Selection | tba | ||
| W | 16-Mar | 21 | Winter Ecology | |||
| F | 18-Mar | 22 | Introduction to ecology | Cain Ch 1 | Lecture notes | |
| M | 20-Mar | 23 | Exponential population growth | Cain Ch 9 | Lecture notes | |
| W | 22-Mar | 24 | Population Growth | |||
| F | 24-Mar | 25 | Logistic population growth | Cain Ch 9 | Lecture notes | |
| M | 28-Mar | 26 | Life tables | Cain Ch 9 | Lecture notes | |
| W | 30-Mar | 27 | Competition | |||
| F | 1-Apr | 28 | Matrix models | Cain Ch 9 | ||
| M | 4-Apr | 29 | ||||
| W | 6-Apr | 30 | Time delays | Cain Ch 10 | Lecture notes | Demography |
| F | 8-Apr | 31 | Metapopulations | Cain Ch 10 | ||
| M | 11-Apr | 32 | ||||
| W | 13-Apr | 33 | Lecture notes | Species Distributions | ||
| F | 15-Apr | 34 | Sample exam questions | |||
| M | 18-Apr | 35 | Exam review | |||
| W | 20-Apr | 36 | Exam 2 | Exam II solutions | Forest Succession | |
| F | 22-Apr | 37 | Guest lecture on invasive species | |||
| M | 25-Apr | 38 | Disturbance and competiton | Lecture notes | ||
| W | 27-Apr | 39 | Competition | Cain Ch 11 | Trees and Carbon | |
| F | 29-Apr | 40 | Competition | |||
| M | 2-May | 41 | Competition | Lecture notes | ||
| W | 4-May | 42 | Exam review | Lecture notes | no lab | |
| F | 13-May | Final Exam 7:30-10:15 AM | Sample questions with solutions | |||