Courses

BIOL 1001 (3 credit hrs): General Biology (for non-science majors) (Spring 2010)

BIOL 1002 (3 credit hrs): General Biology: Diversity, interactions, and life histories of microorganisms, fungi, plants, and animals. (for non-science majors)

BIOL 3152 (4 credit hrs): Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates. Prereq. BIOL 2153, 2 hrs. lecture; 6 hrs. lab. An intensive course of (1) laboratory sessions concentrating on dissection techniques and vertebrate anatomy, and (2) lectures focusing on macroevolution, biomechanics, functional anatomy, and theoretical-ethical issues in combination with required readings of selected scientific articles and textbook materials. The course emphasizes interactive collaborative learning and integration of diverse aspects of biology.

BIOL 3999 (1-4 credit hrs): Research for Biology Honors Students: Individual research on problems in the biological sciences.

BIOL 4800 (3 credit hrs): Macroevolution and Biogeography

BIOL 7152 (4 credit hrs): Advanced Comparative Anatomy

BIOL 7800 (2-4 credit hrs): Selected Topics in General Biology

BIOL 7901 (1 credit hr): Graduate Seminar:

  • Spring 2009: The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London (Adrian Desmond)
  • Fall 2009: Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology (Michael Ruse)
  • Fall 2010: Life's Splendid Drama: Evolutionary Biology and the Reconstruction of Life's Ancestry 1860-1940 (Peter J. Bowler)
  • Spring 2011: History and Evolution (Matthew H. Nitecki & Doris V. Nitecki)
  • Spring 2018: Environmental Ethics and Ecopsychology
  • Fall 2018: Environmental Ethics

BIOL 7952 (1 credit hr): Seminar in Morphology.

  • Biomechanics
  • Evolution of Terrestrial Vertebrates
  • The Role of Morphology in Modern Biology
  • Evolution and the Diversity of Life
  • The Growth of Biological Thought
  • Dimensions of Darwinism
  • Morphology of Birds
  • Evolution – The History of an Idea
  • Science as a Process
  • The Evolutionary Synthesis
  • Biology Takes Form
  • This is Biology
  • Life's Splendid Drama
  • Darwin – The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist
  • The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate – French Biology in the Decades before Darwin

HNRS 3035 (3 credit hrs): 3D Image Acquisition and Analysis: A Multidisciplinary Field with Broad Applications in Science and Medicine (Spring 2008, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2017)