Courses
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- Prerequisites: BI 111, BI 112 or consent of instructor
Lectures, laboratories and field trips dealing with evolutions, systematics, morphology, ecology, behavior and identification of mammals, with emphasis on the Great Lakes region.
- Prerequisites: BI 111 and BI 112 or consent of instructor
- Offered: Winter
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: BI 210 or instructor's permission
This course will cover aspects of fish ecology from individual, population, community, and ecosystem levels. We will discuss the role of the environment in determining fish physiology and behavior, the interactions among fishes and their environment, food-web dynamics, and ecosystem interactions.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: BI 210 and either MA 109 or BI 412, or instructor’s permission.
This course will provide students with the theory and methods for drawing inferences about wildlife and fish populations using data from field studies of marked animals.
- Prerequisites: Consent of instructor; course prerequisites and a minimum GPA may be required for some topics.
- Offered: Fall semesters and on demand
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: Graduate standing
This course guides science graduate students as they plan research and write proposals. Discussions are based on readings of varied texts and on analysis of the primary literature. Students will gain a firm understanding of the scientific method, the process of peer review and the criteria used to evaluate research proposals.
- Graded: A/F
This course provides training for students who intend to teach laboratory sections of university science courses. Students will gain experience with varied teaching techniques used to maximize student learning. Students will also gain familiarity with the social, technological, practical, and legal concerns with running a classroom.
- Prerequisites: BI 208 or equivalent or consent of instructor
Detailed exploration of selected topics in human physiology. Basic concepts, as they relate to the normal physiology of the human, will be emphasized, but frequent extrapolation from this foundation to pathophysiology will be made. Discussions will present and interpret disease as a physiologic dysfunction, i.e., the emphasis will be on the physiologic interpretation of the abnormal state.
- Prerequisites: BI 208 or BI 327 and CH 220 or CH 322 or equivalent or consent of instructor
Recent advances in experimental animal physiology. Laboratory and library work enable the student to explore areas of special interest.
- Prerequisites: BI 310, MA 105, and BI 516 or consent of instructor
- Prerequisites: BI 312 and BI 412 or a course in statistics or consent of instructor
- Prerequisites: BI 310, MA 105, and BI 516 or MA 120
- Prerequisites: BI 312, CH 450, credit for or concurrent enrollment in BI 418 or consent of instructor
- Prerequisites: BI 418 or consent of instructor
Introduction to bioinformatics, or the use of computers to analyze the information contained in nucleic acid and protein sequences. The course focuses on how to use resources available on the Internet to retrieve molecular sequences and how comparisons of these sequences can be used to assess the biological role of the sequences. The structure and function of nucleic acid and protein sequences will be investigated using computer analysis.
- Prerequisites: BI 315, graduate standing or permission of the instructor
- Prerequisites: BI 202, PE 315 or consent of instructor
- Prerequisites: ES 521
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and department head
Independent research under the supervision of a member of the department. Supervisor and research project must be selected prior to enrollment in this course.
Note: This course may be repeated for up to 12 credit hours.
Content will vary depending upon the particular area(s) of specialization and/or interest of the graduate faculty member teaching the course in any given semester.
- Prerequisites: Open to Biology Department Graduate Students or permission of Graduate Director or Department Head
This is a course designed to teach research methods at the graduate level. Students will participate in three two-week rotations in scientific research laboratories. Topics will vary with offering. Course will meet for six hours daily for six weeks.
- Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor
- Graded: S/U
- Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor
- Graded: S/U
- Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and department head
Independent study under the supervision of a member of the department. Supervisor and study must be selected prior to enrollment in the course and appropriate directed study forms must be completed.
- Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and department head
Independent study under the supervision of a member of the department. Supervisor and study must be selected prior to enrollment in the course and appropriate directed study forms must be completed.