Room 129 at 79 Amstel Ave. 1999 Pechenik, A Short Guide to Writing about Biology, 4th ed. The biology of cells, including structure and function, heredity, and gene expression. An introduction to evolution.
Laboratory focuses on experimentation and data analysis.
Introductory Biology is intended to be a survey course which introduces students to the breadth of biological sciences and prepares them for higher level courses in biology or other science majors. Therefore a broad-based understanding of content is important. But so are the skills which will be needed to continue learning later in life. Although the lecture format of teaching has the potential to deliver content, there is no assurance that a student will develop the skills mentioned above, since listening to lecture is a very passive activity. For some of these activities you will work as individuals and for some of them you will work as members of a group.