The lab emphasizes local field investigations and includes extended field trips to the coast and the mountains. Biology 102 or 122. Methods in Biology for Secondary Teachers. A study of the appropriate methods and materials for teaching high school biology courses. A study of lakes, ponds and streams including their origin, development, morphometry, geochemistry, energy balance, productivity, and the dynamics of plant and animal communities.
Laboratory includes a field trip within Virginia.
Man and the Environment. A consideration of local, national and international environmental problems. A study of the basic processes of organic evolution including the historical development of evolutionary theory, sources of variation, adaptation, natural selection, speciation, the fossil record, biogeography and major steps in evolution. Unifying Biological Principles. Themes are studied from the perspective of both cellular and organismic levels of complexity.