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Class number:
3268
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Title: Glb Change & Evolution |
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Department: Biology |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
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Current enrollment: 9 |
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Available seats: 3 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 3, 2024 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 18, 2024 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM, LSC - 140 |
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Instructor(s): Patel, Nikisha |
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Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: C- or better in BIOL 182 and 205 or 333 & BIOL 215 or 222 |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Writing Emphasis Part2 Requirements |
Course Description:
This course combines lecture, discussion, and writing assignments with a focus on global biodiversity, its evolution and loss, and the ways in which human activities and global change have impacted the evolution of life on earth. Course topics will include species concepts and speciation, approaches to defining and quantifying biodiversity, genetic diversity as it relates to population size and gene flow, introduced and invasive species, extinction, human impacts on speciation and extinction, global cultural differences in valuing diversity, and the impacts and efficacy of conservation biology efforts. Students will engage with these topics by reading current scientific research in these areas and synthesize their own ideas through writing. |