BIOL -- Biological Sciences

BIOL 488 Topics in Environmental Biology for Secondary and Middle School Teachers (4-12) Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 12 credits if content differs.

BIOL 489 Topics in Biology for Secondary and Middle School Teachers (1-8) Prerequisites: Teacher
certification, at least two years of high school and/or middle school science teaching experience and permission of department. Repeatable to 12 credits if content differs. An examination of selected topics in the biological sciences conducted through lecture/discussion, laboratory experimentation, and field research.

BIOL 490 Selected Topics in Human Biology for Secondary School Teachers (1-8) Prerequisites: teacher certification, at least two years of high school and/or middle school teaching experience, and permission of department. Repeatable to 12 credits if content differs. An examination of selected topics in human biological sciences conducted through lecture/discussion, laboratory experimentation, and field research.

BIOL 495 Global Greenhouse Effect (3) Two hours of lecture and two hours of discussion/recitation per week. Prerequisites: BIOL 105; and BIOL 106. For students majoring in the College of Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and College of Education only. 90 semester hours. Senior standing. An interdisciplinary investigation of global greenhouse warming - its causes, probable consequences, and ways to deal with it in the next 100 years.

BIOL 501 Life Science for Middle School Teachers I (4) Three lectures and three hours of laboratory per week. An introductory lecture/laboratory course for teachers emphasizing the process and interdependence of living organisms, their general organization and association with humans in natural ecosystems. Discussion of the genetic and evolutionary process involved in the continuity of life.

BIOL 502 Life Science for Middle School Teachers II (4) Three lectures and three hours of laboratory per week.. Prerequisite: BIOL 501. A second-level lecture/laboratory course that provides a general introduction to the classification, anatomy and physiology of plants and animals, with a special emphasis on humans.

BIOL 503 Life Science for Middle School Teachers III (4) Three lectures and three hours of laboratory per week.  Prerequisite: BIOL 502. A third-level laboratory/field course that investigates the ecology and natural history of the Chesapeake Bay and human's relationship to it.