Offered in alternate years. Credit, three hours. Study of the spatial distribution of organisms and the role of limiting factors in the development of world biomes. Discussion includes genetic, anthropologic, and social implications of the loss of habitats and biotic diversity. Four hours of lecture, discussions, and laboratory per week.
Course includes required weekend field trips.
Credit, three hours. A course to integrate biology and chemistry into a useful approach to poisons and pollutants and their control. Methods are developed to express and measure toxicity, predict risks, and illustrate how laws and regulations are developed to communicate risks and control hazards. The student will learn to express the complex mechanics of statistics and to reduce pharmacodynamics to simple graphic representations. Lectures, demonstrations, laboratories, and weekend field trips.