Research Courses

EEB research courses allow EEB majors to receive academic credit for participating in research at UCSC.  Completion of 5 units of undergraduate research may be used to satisfy one EEB General Elective. However, you do not need to enroll in undergraduate research courses to do work in an EEB research lab and can choose to volunteer instead.

All research courses require support of a faculty sponsor to enroll; click on the Faculty Advising page in the menu to learn more.

Enrollment requires submission of an Undergraduate Research Contract.

Courses require 3 hours of field or lab work per week per unit.

Research Courses offered:

• BIOE 182F Exploring Research in EEB, 2 units

A chance to try out research.  Does not provide credit toward major requirements.

• BIOE 183W Undergraduate Research in EEB - Writing, 2 units

Core undergraduate research course.  Required as prerequisite for enrollment in further 

undergraduate research courses. Only offered Fall and Winter.

• BIOE 183L Undergraduate Research in EEB, 3 units

May be taken concurrently with BIOE 183W.

• BIOE 193 Independent Research in EEB, 5 units

• BIOE 193F Independent Research in EEB, 2 units

Opportunity to earn units for continued research work.

• BIOE 195 Senior Thesis

Only taken in the quarter the thesis will be completed.  Successful completion of the course 

requires submission of completed senior thesis.