Course Descriptions
Description of courses offered in the summer of 2019 can be viewed at 2018-2019 Undergraduate Bulletin
and 2018-2019 Graduate Bulletin.
The following courses are offered this summer but not published in 2018-19
Bulletin.
BIOL 460 – MARINE ECOLOGY (5 CR)
Study of interspecific, intraspecific, and community relationships demonstrated by marine organisms.
BIOL 400A – BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS IN HUMANS (5 CR)
A study of human bacterial pathogens and the mechanisms involved in disease development. Attention is given to how bacterial pathogens influence humanity with topics ranging from host cell molecular interactions to epidemiological perspectives on disease.
BIOL 400B – BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY (5 CR)
Biological oceanography is the study of marine organisms, their quantitative distribution in time and space and their interactions with each other and their ocean environment. This course examines how oceanic environments control the form and function of marine life. Topics include: distributions of planktonic production and abundance, marine habitats, coastal zones, upwelling centers, gyres, the deep sea, nutrient cycling and human impacts on ocean biology.