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. An introduction to the taxonomy, habitats, adaptations and unique biological processes of marine flora and fauna.
Laboratory normally includes an extended field trip to the coast.
Biology 102 or 103 or 122. Collection, identification and life histories of local fauna. 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.