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ARCHIVED 2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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BIO 416 - Environmental Biology

3.75 credit hours
Investigation of the effects of human activities on biological resources and ecosystem structure and function, with extensive use of the primary scientific literature. Issues in research ethics and scientific leadership are discusses, including core values of science, ethical standards of conduct and peer review as well as a focus on the ethics and politics of ecological research, sustainability and human impacts on the environment. Laboratory required: independent project exposing students to some of the most important field methods and analytical techniques used to examine human impacts. Research course.

Prerequisite(s): BIO 301  or BIO 350 .
ACR: Leadership, Ethics and Values.


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