The course includes discussion of human impact on these habitats as well as study of habitats in the field. The interrelationship of environmental damage to the health of humans and other organisms. Topics include an introduction to the principles of toxicology and environmental epidemiology, and sources and medical effects of pollutants, global warming and toxic waste. The use of statistics for decision making in the biological sciences. Application of basic methods of descriptive and inferential statistics, formulation and testing of hypotheses, and experimental design are explored.
Statistics software is used.
Special investigations of specific biological problems. Independent reading and research of special topics in biology.