Introduction to Freshwater Biology.
Water is essential to all life and crucial for all societies.
In this class, we'll examine topics ranging from the global distribution of freshwater to the microbes that colonize that water, including aquatic chemistry, eutrophication, water movement in lakes and rivers, species interactions, wastewater treatment, hydrogeomorphology, resource management, mineral cycles, wetlands, and estuaries. Grades will be based on a term paper, a class presentation, two open-book exams. Renaissance is a French word describing a phenomenon that is essentially Italian. For our purposes, in this course, attention will be directed toward the efforts of those persons whose influence upon the course of Renaissance Rhetoric can be seen as major. These will include some not generally considered in the more popular veins of research and instruction.