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 Courses offered currently or in upcoming semesters

  • BIOL 115 Reasoning about Data: Navigating a Quantitative World
    • Students learn to apply mathematical concepts in authentic contexts, developing tools for reasoning with data, logic, and quantitative methods. The course has three target audiences: (1) students from nonscience majors who wish to satisfy the Quantitative Reasoning focus of the General Education curriculum; (2) students who wish to have additional preparation before taking the quantitative courses required of science majors; and (3) students interested in learning how to apply quantitative reasoning to their world.
    • Crosslisted with: Math 115, PSYC 115, STOR 115
    • 3 credit hours
    • Prerequisites: none
    • Spring 2020 course materials
  • BIOL 201 Ecology and Evolution 
    • Principles governing the ecology and evolution of populations, communities, and ecosystems, including speciation, population genetics, population regulation, and community and ecosystem structure and dynamics.
    • 4 credit hours (3 lecture, 1 recitation)
    • Prerequisites: BIOL 101 and CHEM 101 or 102. A grade of C or better in BIOL 101 and CHEM 101 or 102 required.
    • Spring 2015 Syllabus
  • BIOL 224H/L The Mathematics of Life
    • This course enriches the foundational material from BIOL 201, 202 and 205 through study of classic applications of math to many of the same topics. By revealing the mathematical underpinnings of much of the material in the majors’ core, this course will introduce students to quantitative approaches and research directions across Biology.
    • Co-taught with Dr. Maria Servedio, to be offered every Spring starting 2017
    • Aimed at Honors Biology and Quantitive Biology majors in their sophomore or junior year.
    • 3 credit hours for lecture plus 1 for the co-requisite lab section
    • Spring 2019 syllabi: lectures, and computer labs
  • BIOL 526H Computational Genetics
    • Introduction to computational principles underlying sequence alignment and phylogenetics, genome assembly and annotation, analysis of gene function, and other bioinformatics applications. Three classroom hours and a one-hour computer lab.
    • Taught in the Fall Semester, alternating years.
    • 4 credit hours (including 1 hr of computer lab).
    • Pre/co-requisites, BIOL 202, COMP 116, and STOR 155, or equivalents. Open to honors undergraduates, or to other undergraduates and graduates by permission of the instructor.
    • Fall 2014 Syllabus
  • BIOL 659 Special Topics in Evolutionary Biology
    • A graduate seminar taught by Dr. Vision every other year on varying topics.
    • Fall 2019 syllabus