Evaluation of the impact of plants on the aesthetic, cultural, social, medical, and religious lives of peoples of the world. Plant Biology and Biological Science majors will not receive credit for PBIO 1060 as part of program distribution requirements.
Collect, identify and study major fungal groups, especially basidiomycetes (mushrooms, rusts and smuts), ascomycetes (cup fungi, yeasts and mildews), and affiliated taxa. Extensive field and lab work, with thematic lectures. Prerequisite: PBIO 1040 or BIOL 1450 or BCOR 1450 or BCOR 1425 or Instructor permission.
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Survey of global climate change including its causes, mechanisms, and ecological and societal impacts. Credit not awarded for both PBIO 3750 and PBIO 5750. Prerequisite: BCOR 2100 or Instructor permission.
On-site supervised work experience combined with a structured academic learning plan directed by a faculty member or a faculty-staff team in which a faculty member is the instructor of record, for which academic credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion.
Research for the Master's Thesis. Credit as arranged.
Final project under the direction of a graduate faculty mentor. Credit as arranged.
Research for the Doctoral Dissertation. Credit as arranged.