BIO 336/BEE572: Conservation Biology

To be taught Fall 2024. Active learning course. Introduces the scientific foundations of conservation biology, along with real-world examples. Seven learning units: demography, population genetics, between-species interactions, island biogeography, biogeochemistry, and environmental economics. Classroom is flipped, course includes pre- and post-assessments of class content, activities in every class period, numerous take-home exercises, online-based textbooks, and open-notes exams.

The course has been part of a NSF-funded project to evaluate the effectiveness of one-semester interventions in building critical thinking skills. Results show that students do gain some critical thinking skills as part of the course.

Credits: 3

Hours: 2 lectures (80-min each) per week.

Grading type: A-F

Instructor: Liliana M. Dávalos