BIOEE 1610

BIOEE 1610

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

This course provides an introduction to ecology, covering interactions between organisms and the environment at scales of populations, communities, and ecosystems. Ecological principles are used to explore the theory and applications of major issues facing humanity in the 21st century, including population dynamics, disease ecology, biodiversity and invasive species, global change, and other topics of environmental sustainability.

When Offered Fall, spring, summer.

Distribution Category (PBS)

Comments Four-credit option involves writing component and a discussion section that meets twice per week. Biological sciences majors must take course for a letter grade.

Outcomes
  • Students will understand the ecological principles that affect organismal, population, community, ecosystems, and biospheric processes
  • Students will be able to apply these principles to contemporary environmental problems
  • Students will be able to analyze ecological relationships for proximate and ultimate causation, and be able to work with multi-level systems interactions.
  • Students will be able to use basic conceptual and analytical tools to describe complex ecological relationships.
  • Students will be familiar with a number of experimental and synthetic approaches to analyzing and discovering ecological processes at the major scales of ecological organization.
  • Students will write and discuss knowledgeably about the ecological dimensions of environmental issues

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  3999 BIOEE 1610   LEC 001

  • 3 or 4 credits; 4-credit option involves writing component and two disc sect per week. Biological sciences majors must take course for a letter grade.

  •  4001 BIOEE 1610   DIS 201

  •  4002 BIOEE 1610   DIS 202

  •  4003 BIOEE 1610   DIS 203

  •  4004 BIOEE 1610   DIS 204

  •  4005 BIOEE 1610   DIS 205

  •  4006 BIOEE 1610   DIS 206

  •  4007 BIOEE 1610   DIS 207

  •  4008 BIOEE 1610   DIS 208

  •  4009 BIOEE 1610   DIS 209

  •  4010 BIOEE 1610   DIS 210

  •  4011 BIOEE 1610   DIS 211

  • 18348 BIOEE 1610   DIS 212

  •  4012 BIOEE 1610   DIS 213

  •  4803 BIOEE 1610   DIS 215

  •  4473 BIOEE 1610   DIS 216

  • 18475 BIOEE 1610   DIS 222

  • 18476 BIOEE 1610   DIS 223