The roles of insects in ecosystems are incredibly diverse, with species serving as herbivores, predators, pollinators, and they are essential for organic material cycling, and often used as indicators of habitat quality. Despite their species richness, recent reports have highlighted potentially catastrophic declines in the abundance and diversity of insects across multiple biogeographic regions.

This course will provide students with a broad understanding of the ecology, evolution, and natural history of vertebrate life including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes. The labs will be focused on gaining hands-on experience in typical methods and techniques for sampling vertebrates in the wild.

This course will provide students with a broad understanding of the ecology, evolution, and natural history of vertebrate life including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes. The labs will be focused on gaining hands-on experience in typical methods and techniques for sampling vertebrates in the wild.

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Access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation continue to be a challenge both in the developed and the developing world. Public health interventions to diminish the burden of disease by improving access to clean drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene have been successful in many parts of the world. However challenges with respect to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) still remain and continue to lead to morbidity and mortality globally.

This course provides an overview of current issues in the epidemiology of women's health throughout the life cycle. Students will explore how epidemiologic methods are used to evaluate factors influencing reproductive health, cancer, cardiovascular disease and other common disorders in women. Students will learn basic quantitative methods, study design concepts, and critical thinking skills.

Massive problems, on a global scale, threaten the health of the planet and its inhabitants. In this class, we will explore several of these problems, identify stakeholders and populations affected by global problems and educate broad audiences (including policy makers, public health workers, and the general public) about major environmental issues. After discussing case studies of ?success stories? in tackling global environmental health problems, students will work independently and in teams to develop innovative solutions to emerging problems.

This course is designed to help students gain an understanding of disability through an intersectional lens. Disability justice, black disability politics, feminist, queer and crip theories will serve as some of the theoretical and epistemological underpinnings for the term. Disability with race, gender, and sexuality will be explored not only in theory, but in the lived experience on personal, cultural, and institutional levels.

An overview of developmental psychology beginning with prenatal development and continuing through infancy, childhood, and some adolescence. Topics include: prenatal and infant development, language and cognitive development, social and emotional development, and the biological foundations of development.

This course explores both the historical and contemporary role(s) of race, ethnicity, and immigration in the construction and operation of American political life, and asks if DuBois' "color line" remains a pressing problem in the twenty-first century.