A major in biology and permission of instructor. May not be taken Pass-Fail. Not open to students enrolled in HONR 390 . Deals with the principles and problems of teaching biology. Not applicable to the major or the minor.
Students read, present and discuss research papers from a variety of areas in biology.
May not be taken Pass-Fail. May be repeated once for credit. Small research teams consisting of both students with computer science majors and students with biology majors will each work on a single project. Each project will follow the natural progression of scientific research from literature review through presentation of the results. This course focuses in a rather broad view on the topics discussed by Richard Dawkins in a number of his books written for both biologist and a more general audience.