Students are required to collect, preserve, and identify specimens to add to the Foxcroft herbarium. This course enables students to gain a comprehensive understanding of structures and their function in the human body. Representative specimens are dissected in the laboratory, and the macroscopic anatomy is correlated with that of humans. This course focuses on the relationship between humans and the environment. It includes use of the world's resources, major environmental issues, problems, and potential solutions.
Specific attention is paid to local environmental issues.
The Science Department offers a number of elective classes on a rotating basis. The following courses are not offered during the 2001-2002 academic year, but remain as curricular offerings in the department. Physical Geology focuses on the processes that have shaped the planet. Topics include earth materials, plate tectonics, deformational processes, stream processes, topographic map skills, fossilization, geologic time, and the sequence of geological events. This course introduces students to the basic principles and techniques of microbiology, to impress upon them the unity of vital processes, and to emphasize the complex interaction among sub-microscopic organisms from a physiological, anatomical, genetic, and medical standpoint.