Subject: BIOL 210 Field Biology
Credits: 3 (Class 2, Lab 2)
Offered: Summer

Description: This course is offered for non-biology majors.  It consists of a weeklong workshop at an off-campus field site. Activities will include field identification of animals and plants, a series of lectures by the course instructor or local experts, trips to local natural areas, and class discussions at the workshop site.  Topics may include, but are not limited to, basic ecological and evolutionary principles, environmental ethics, local geology and ecology, natural resource management, habitat restoration and conservation, land use and human impacts on the most fundamental ecological principles and an appreciation of human connectedness to other living species and the non-living environment.  This course cannot be counted toward the BS degree in biology.