Primate Behavior : Courses

Primate Behavior Graduate Program Requirements

• Students must hold an undergraduate degree in anthropology, psychology, or biology. Before admission, program faculty will evaluate the academic course work and experience of all applicants for admission and will recommend remedial course work if, in their judgment, there are deficiencies in pre-baccalaureate work which need to be overcome before entrance into the program.
  
  
• Students must submit GRE scores for the general test.
  
  
• International students for whom English is a second language must provide TOEFL scores to demonstrate English proficiency.
  
  
• Students must arrange for a graduate faculty advisor in the program to serve as their major advisor.
  
  
• Admission to the program and continuation in it may be conditional on the applicant's satisfactory completion of remedial courses. Such courses will not count toward the program credit requirement, but in some cases they may be taken after admission to the program.
  
  
  

• Credit toward the graduate degree will not be accepted for courses in which a grade lower than C is earned.
  
  
• Grades for all courses included on the Course of Study must average at least a 3.0, where the cumulative grade point average is calculated on all courses taken after admittance into a graduate program, whether part of the approved Course of Study or not. A graduate student whose cumulative grade point average falls below 3.0 at the end of any quarter will be placed on academic probation for the next academic quarter. While on probation, a student may not hold a graduate assistantship. If the cumulative grade point average remains below 3.0 after a second consecutive quarter, the student will no longer eligible to continue in the Master's program.
  
  
• No human or animal research of any kind may be conducted without obtaining prior approval from the relevant department and university review committees. In the case of research with human subjects, the review is conducted by the Institutional Review Board (IRB). Animal research is subject to regulation by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC).
  
  
• Students complete the 21 credit core requirements and choose 18 elective credits in consultation with the chair of her or his thesis committee. At least 30 credits of course work must be graded (rather than Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory). Students will follow the deadlines detailed in the graduate studies website.
  
  
• All graduate students in the PB program are required to complete a thesis.
  
  
  

• The Primate Behavior & Ecology Research Library, located in Dean Hall 204, houses several hundred books, articles and videos related to primatology. The room contains four computer workstations, a TV, and a DVD and VHS player.
  
  
• Students have access to the program's equipment, which includes observational software (The Observer), four computers, a video camera, a digital camera, two DVD players, one TV, and two PDAs.
  
  
• Students with approved access to the Chimpanzee & Human Communication Institute may have access to the facility's resources. CHCI houses an extensive library of articles, books, and vidoes, as well as several VCRs, TVs, DVD players, video cameras and computer terminals.
  
  
• The Anthropological Genetics Laboratory is equipped for DNA extraction from a variety of biomaterials including blood, feces, tissue and bone analysis including PCR amplification and DNA sequencing and gentoyping.