Lectures: General Entomology; evolution of insect pest management; biological control agents; insect behaviour alteration (semiochemicals); botanical insecticides; insect growth regulators; genetic management; plant-pest interactions; plant resistance; environmental impact of biotechnology applied to pest management.

Tutorials and laboratory: insect rearing and bioassays; bioassays with bioinsecticides; microscope techniques for ultrastructural and histopathological studies on insects; biomolecular tools for the identification and characterization of biological control agents and to study their mode of action.