Laboratory provides experience working with living and preserved specimens in an active learning mode. Three hours of lecture and three hours laboratory per week. This course is designed to promote learning about the science of zoology through an active learning process. Lectures and laboratory will emphasize Criteria 1 and 3. Student projects, such as dissections, will promote student engagement in and responsibility for learning.
Zoology encompasses the principles of biology related to animals.
Principles are those facts and concepts that are common to the understanding of animals. Students will understand the scientific method used to discover knowledge. The course emphasize Criteria 4 and 7. Zoology can only be taught in an interdisciplinary way to emphasize all the international environmental effects on animals and the equally important aspect of society on the animals and their effects on society. Much of the world s population of humans in parasitized by animals studied in zoology.