BIONB 4720

Visual Ecology

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

This course will explore the wide diversity in visual systems across organisms and how evolution shapes these visual systems to solve a wide range of daily challenges. Vision often plays a key role in navigation, finding food, avoiding predators, and even choosing potential mates, but there isn't one best visual system for all these tasks in all environments. We will be examining how differences in eye structure and photoreceptors lead to differences in spatial acuity, color vision, polarized light detection, and even the speed of vision.

When Offered Fall.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: BIONB 2210. 

Distribution Category (OPHLS-AG)

• Classify the diversity in visual systems across organisms.
• Explain methods and interpret data from a primary publication in this field.
• Formulate hypotheses about an organism's behavior by studying their visual system.
• Construct an engaging scientific outreach program.

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