Undergraduate course: Study of non-human primate behavior from the perspective of phylogeny, adaptation, physiology and anatomy, and life history. Focus on the four main problems primates face: finding appropriate food, avoiding being eaten themselves, reproducing in the face of competition, and dealing with social partners. Offered at two levels for non-science students and science majors. The website above is an older (2006) version of course: the new version is more extensively password protected.

Undergraduate course: Critical in-depth evaluation of selected issues in primate socioecology, including adaptationism, sociality, sexual competition, communication, kinship, dominance, cognition, and politics. Emphasizes readings from original literature.

Graduate course: Broad coverage of the fundamentals and recent developments in the field of primate behavior and ecology.  Topics include feeding ecology, population biology, community ecology, conservation biology and social behavior. Required course for students in the Ph.D. program in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP).  

Graduate course: How to carry out a research project on animal behavior, from formulating research hypotheses, choosing an analytical design, collecting and analyzing data, to presenting those data formally in both written and oral form.  The course also covers more philosophical issues, such as the scientific method, the dichotomy between field and lab study, and ethical issues that arise in real life. Students undertake individual observational projects on local animal species.

Graduate course: Advanced seminar in primate socioecology with emphasis on detailed, critical readings of recent literature. Topics change year to year.  

Past Topics:
Social Cognition
Three Primate Radiations
New World Primate Ecology and Behavior