BIOL 345 - Conservation Biology

Credit Hours: 4
Frequency of Offering: Alternate Fall Terms

Conservation biology is a special topics course that introduces key ecological, genetical and socio-economic concepts needed to propose strong management and restoration efforts of natural ecosystems. Students will apply geographic information system (GIS) techniques along with current ecological and genomic approaches used to assess the state of endangerment of species and ecosystems and will learn how to implement this knowledge to craft practical solutions that can promote the conservation and/or restoration of a given biological system. Students will interact with members of state parks and other conservation agencies in the US and Latin America that can provide case-study examples.

Prerequisite(s): BIOL 270 , BIOL 270L , BIOL 271 , and BIOL 271L