Would you like to understand how species have evolved, how they can co-exist, change their environment and/or adapt to it? Would you like to study the underlying ecological and evolutionary principles, from the organismal, to the ecosystem level?
Then choose the minor Evolutionary Biology and Ecology at VU Amsterdam.
Evolution is a central theme in biology, which pervades all biological disciplines. This minor programme is designed to illustrate how evolutionary thinking has penetrated such diverse areas as ecology, genetics, animal physiology, and ecosystem modelling. Via studying the unifying principles of biology, the program provides an in-depth treatment of selected topics in modern biological sciences, in such a way that students are stimulated to pursue their further studies in a specialized graduate programme focused on one of these topics. At the same time, this minor provides a broad basis for pursuing a general biology graduate programme combined with a professional career in education or science communication.