Course Descriptions
Description of courses offered in the summer of 2018 can be viewed at 2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin and 2017-2018 Graduate Bulletin.
The following courses are offered this summer but not published in 2017-18
Bulletin.
BIOL
400 – MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY: Extreme Life of the Sea (5 CR)
The course will tour the marine ecosystem from an environmental
physiology perspective and examine the biology of organisms found in a variety
of marine habitats. Diversity of species and adaptations to habitats from the
sea surface to the depths of the ocean are explored in detail.
BIOL
400 – SEA TO SUMMIT (5 CR)
Students will identify flora and fauna between the intertidal zone and
the alpine tundra in the Pacific Northwest. Emphasis will be placed on
adaptions/design of organisms in order to live in these locations. Ecological
principles governing interactions between populations within communities will
be explored. Students will learn how disruptions to the terrestrial ecosystem
affects life within the intertidal zone.