| Week | Date | Day | Topic |
| 1 | 9-Jan | Tuesday | Course Overview & Explanation of Pattern Journals |
| 11-Jan | Thursday | Philosophy of Science | |
| 14-Jan | Sunday | Elkhorn Slough Fieldtrip | |
| 2 | 16-Jan | Tuesday | Statistics Review First Journal Patterns Due – Two patterns (NO hypotheses) |
| 18-Jan | Thursday | Population Ecology Review | |
| 3 | 23-Jan | Tuesday | Community Ecology Review First journal patterns returned |
| 25-Jan | Thursday | Post-settlement Processes – Intertidal Zonation-1 | |
| 4 | 30-Jan | Tuesday | Post-settlement Processes – Intertidal Zonation-2 Second Journal Patterns Due – Three Patterns (NO hypotheses) |
| 1-Feb | Thursday | Exam 1 (potential exam questions) | |
| 5 | 6-Feb | Tuesday | Maintenance of Diversity-1: Post-settlement Processes Second journal patterns returned |
| 8-Feb | Thursday | Settlement and Pre-settlement Processes-1 | |
| 10-Feb | Saturday | Davenport rocky intertidal fieldtrip | |
| 6 | 13-Feb | Tuesday | Settlement and Pre-settlement Processes-2 Third Journal Patterns Due – Two patterns (With Hypotheses) |
| 15-Feb | Thursday | Settlement and Pre-settlement Processes-3 | |
| 7 | 20-Feb | Tuesday | Settlement and Pre-settlement Processes-4 Third Journal Patterns returned |
| 22-Feb | Thursday | Exam 2 (potential exam questions) | |
| 8 | 27-Feb | Tuesday | Maintenance of diversity – 2: Settlement and Pre-settlement Processes |
| 29-Feb | Thursday | Life History Responses | |
| 9 | 5-Mar | Tuesday |
Ecological Stability and Alternative States |
| 7-Mar | Thursday | Biodiversity and ecosystem function | |
| 10 | 12-Mar | Tuesday | Global Change Ecology |
| 14-Mar | Thursday | Exam 3 (potential exam questions) | |
| Finals Week | Final journal patterns returned |