BIOEE 4700 - [Herpetology, Lectures]

Spring. Not offered 2017-2018 (offered alternate years). 2 credits. Letter grades only (S/U grades with permission of instructor).

Prerequisite: BIOEE 2740 recommended. Enrollment limited to: 50 students.

K. Zamudio.

Lectures cover various aspects of the biology of amphibians and reptiles, including evolution, zoogeography, ecology, behavior, and physiology.

Outcome 1: Students will acquire knowledge of the major groups of amphibians and reptiles, with respect to their main diagnostic characteristics.

Outcome 2: Students will be able to move freely back and forth between classifications and evolutionary trees of amphibians and reptiles on a global basis.

Outcome 3: Students will be able to synthesize, integrate, and discuss details of morphology, ecology, behavior, and physiology for major lineages of amphibians and reptiles.

Outcome 4: Students will have a working familiarity with the characteristics that distinguish ~50 species of amphibians and reptiles, including primarily those found in NY, as well as construct a key to an initially unknown fauna.

Outcome 5: Students will be able to think integratively and synthetically about the biology and future of amphibians and reptiles on a global and local basis.