CURRICULUM
NEW COURSES
compiled by Laurie J. Anderson
Plant-Animal
Interactions (ECOL 4520/6520) taught by Rebecca
Irwin (rirwin@uga.edu)
covers the ecology and evolution of plant-animal interactions in terrestrial,
marine, and freshwater environments. Students will examine all major classes
of plant-animal interactions and their consequences at multiple hierarchical
levels. This course offers participants a chance to further explore the
concepts and general principles covered in Population and Community Ecology
(ECOL 4000).
This summer, students wishing to study complex systems can take Ecological
Biocomplexity (ECOL 4100/6100-4100L/6100L) at the Skidaway
Institute of Oceanography with Bernie
Patten (bmpatten@earthlink.net)
and Peter Verity (peter@skio.peachnet.edu).
Students will be residents in dorms at Skidaway and the class will meet
for approximately eight hours per day. Team projects will provide experience
in field and laboratory methods, data acquisition and analysis, and simulation
modeling and systems analysis. The course will be intensive, featuring
field projects conducted on an unscheduled basis, and requiring open access
to laboratory and computer facilities.
Students interested in learning to use ArcView in the context of Landscape
Architecture will soon be able to take Independent
Study in GIS (LAND 4231/6231). For this new course students will
select a distance learning package on a single or multiple topics in Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) provided by the ESRI corporation and complete
an online course. Students will receive two credit hours for each course
completed. Contact Scott
Weinberg (ph. 706-542 4715) for details.
Interdisciplinary
Barrier Island Conservation (aka “the Ossabaw course”
featured in the Fall 2002 issue of The Golden Mean), will have
a new course number starting Maymester 2003: ECOL 4560/6560. Contact Christine
Gardiner at cturtle@uga.edu
for more on this course.
Modeling Population Ecology (ECOL 8320-8320L),
is now offered every spring semester by Pej
Rohani (rohani@uga.edu). It familiarizes
students with some of the useful mathematical approaches in ecology, and
should enable those so inclined to take first steps in developing and
analyzing models relevant to their own systems of interest.
For Portfolio Development (LAND 6240) students
will learn design principles by creating a a personal logo and incorporating
it into letterheads, resumes, cd covers, webpages and professional presentations.
Course is offered every fall, spring and summer. Contact Eleonora
Machado (emachado@uga.edu)
for details.
Ecological Landscape Restoration (LAND 6350),
taught every spring by Darrel
Morrison (darrelmo@uga.edu),
will serve as an introduction to restoration of natural function, diversity
and aesthetic character to degraded landscapes. Students will become familiar
with selected case studies. Readings include classic papers on plant community
development, and curent journals covering restoration and repair of grasslands,
savannahs, woodlands, and wetlands.
This page last updated June 13, 2003.
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