Here’s a list of graduate seminars being offered by the Biology Department this semester:
Animal Decision Making (BIOL 845 Dr. Sabrina Burmeister)
The goal of the course is to use an integrative approach to better understand animal decisions – from foraging and mate choice to learned discriminations – and, when possible, to address these kinds of decisions from both behavioral and neurobiological perspectives.
College Science Teaching (BIOL 810 – Dr. Jennifer Coble)
This seminar will help you develop the knowledge and skills needed to implement student-centered science instruction at the university level. Over the semester, we will explore methods of course design, student-centered instruction, and assessment that have been shown by research to improve student learning.
Seminar in Plant Molecular and Cell Biology (BIOL 639 – Dr. Jason Reed)
Linking Biological Invasions to Community Ecology (BIOL 669 – Dr. Charles Mitchell)
Seminar in Cell Biology and Biochemistry: How Microbes Affect Behavior (BIOL 649/842 – Dr. Elizabeth Shank)
Great Experiments (BIOL 801 – Dr. Bob Goldstein)
The goal of this course is to learn about some of the most important and beautifully designed experiments from across the biological and biomedical sciences. Students will gain experience inreading classic papers that span the breadth of biological research, and in explaining key experiments from their own fields of interest to colleagues in other fields of biological and biomedical sciences.