A largely anatomical exploration of the evolutionary origins, adaptations, and trends in the biology of vertebrates. Enrollment limited to 20 students. BIO 272 is normally taken with or prior to BIO 273.

A review of the evolutionary origins, adaptations, and trends in the biology of vertebrates. Laboratory (BIO 273) is recommended but not required.

The laboratory explores concepts discussed in lecture by using current approaches in plant physiology. Students gain hands-on experience with instrumentation and techniques used to measure micro-climate, plant-water relations, gas exchange (photosynthetic rate), nutrient allocation and stable isotope variation. Students will be able to critically evaluate the current literature and concepts in plant physiology and carry out independent projects.

This course explores the astronomical roots of clocks and calendars, and relies on both real and simulated observations of the Sun, Moon and stars. In addition to completing weekly projects based on collecting and interpreting data, students independently research a clock and a calendar from another culture, either ancient or modern. There are no prerequisites, and students from all disciplines and backgrounds are welcome. Enrollment limited to 25 per section.

Discover how the forces of nature shape our understanding of the cosmos. Explore the origin, structure and evolution of the Earth, moons and planets, comets and asteroids, the Sun and other stars, star clusters, the Milky Way and other galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and the universe as a whole. Designed for nonscience majors.

This course concerns the cultural evolution of human society, looking at changes in social organization and technological complexity from our origin as nomadic foragers to current configurations of centralized industrialized states. This course examines issues of economy (production, exchange, consumption) and ecology (human-resource interaction, adaptation and competition for resources), and looks in particular at the development and spread of capitalist relations and effect on marginal and disempowered peoples.

Topics course. Same as AMS 351. In this class, students develop their skills in narrative, long-form nonfiction writing as they explore the ways that science and technology are transforming American culture. This course focuses on writing about the country's weather and climate-past, present and future. As the United States confronts the consequences of global climate change, some sectors of the population continue to deny that any human-induced crisis looms. What is the scientific evidence to support the prediction of impending climate catastrophe?

Same as ENG 384. Topic: The Climate of the Country

Topics course. Throughout the African diaspora in the Atlantic World, children were active participants in maintaining slave economies. They began working on plantations from as early as the age of 6. In the aftermath of Emancipation (both in the U.S.A. and Caribbean contexts) children's labor continued to play an important role in the economic stability of family life as well as in the hope for social and economic mobility.

Offered both semesters each year.