Intensive first-year seminar focused on specific themes and/or disciplinary perspectives. Emphasis on developing critical reading and writing skills, substantive revision, information literacy, and analytical thinking. First-year seminars are frequently organized to meet one of the disciplinary Catamount Core requirements. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years.
Intensive course in a broad disciplinary area (humanities, social sciences, arts, or natural sciences). Part of an integrated first-year experience in which students take 2-4 classes exploring aesthetic, humanistic, social, linguistic, environmental, or scientific issues. May repeat for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Co-requisite: Enrollment in the appropriate Liberal Arts Scholars Program.
For nonscience majors. Selected biological concepts and topics relevant to humans, such as cancer, human genetics, environmental toxicants. With virtual laboratory. Credit not awarded for both BIOL 1100 and BIOL 1105.
For nonscience majors. Selected biological topics relevant to humans, such as cancer, human genetics, environmental toxicants; biological concepts necessary for understanding these problems. No laboratory. Credit not awarded for both BIOL 1105 and BIOL 1100.
Forensic science is a rapidly changing field that blends expertise in a wide range of natural sciences, social sciences, and the law to better represent the rights of all members of our society. Covers crime scene investigation, methods of evidence collection, and analysis of biological evidence both classical (fingerprints, blood spatter) and modern (DNA profiles and match statistics) contextualized by Constitutional guidelines.
Principles of cellular biochemistry; cell biology; genetics and evolution. Topics: biochemistry; metabolism, cell structure/function; respiration; photosynthesis; molecular, Mendelian and population genetics; genetics of evolution. Credit not awarded for both BIOL 1400 and BCOR 1400 or BCOR 1425.
Explores vertebrate diversity using the tools of evolutionary tree diagrams, structure and function relationships, ecology, and paleontology. Prerequisites: BCOR 1400, BIOL 1400, or BIOL 1000; BCOR 1450, BIOL 1450, BIOL 1005, or BCOR 1425.
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.
Undergraduate student work on individual or small team research projects under the supervision of a faculty member, for which credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion. Pre/co-requisites: Junior/Senior standing; Department permission.
Theoretical and empirical analyses of community structure. Topics include population growth, metapopulation dynamics, competition, predation, species diversity, niches, disturbance succession, island biogeography, and conservation biology. Prerequisite: BCOR 2100; minimum Junior standing.
Basic concepts in evolution will be covered, including the causes of evolutionary change, speciation, phylogenetics, and the history of life. Prerequisite: BCOR 2100.
Exploration of advanced topics in General Biology. May be repeated for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Prerequisite: BCOR 2100, BCOR 2300, or BCOR 2500.
Exploration of the fundamental molecular mechanisms that happens in a cell in different disease states. Diseases covered can include Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's, Diabetes, and Osteoporosis. Emphasizes the cellular and molecular basis of these diseases. Prerequisites: BCOR 2500 or NSCI 2105.
An analysis of the cellular, subcellular, molecular, and genetic mechanisms that operate during oogenesis and embryogenesis in invertebrate and vertebrate organisms. Prerequisites: BCOR 2300, BCOR 2500.
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Undergraduate student work on individual or small team research projects under the supervision of a faculty member, for which credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion. Pre/co-requisites: Minimum Junior standing; Department permission.
Classification, identification, morphology, evolution, and distribution of mammals. Prerequisite: BCOR 2100.
Physiology at the organ, systems, and organismal levels. Capstone course to consolidate biological concepts. Prerequisites: BCOR 2300; BCOR 2100 or BCOR 2500.
A Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (or CURE), is a class where students actively participate in an original research project with unknown outcomes. Unlike traditional laboratory courses with pre-determined results, students work on real-world questions of interest to a Biology faculty member's research program, and their work contributes to the larger body of knowledge in the field. Topics vary by section. Prerequisites: Minimum Junior standing; BCOR 2100, BCOR 2300, or BCOR 2500.
Undergraduate student service as a teaching assistant, usually in an introductory-level course in the discipline, for which credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion.
College honors thesis or other department/program honors, under the supervision of a faculty member. Offered at department discretion.
Exploration of topics in Ecology and Evolution. May repeat for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Prerequisite: Minimum Junior standing.
Exploration of topics in a broad Biological context. May repeat for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Prerequisite: Minimum Junior standing.
Seminar topics include mentor-mentee relationships, finding funding, grant writing, preparing posters and seminars, communicating how to be a successful teacher, Curriculum Vitae preparation, job finding and interviewing. Prerequisite: Life Sciences Graduate student.
Weekly departmental seminar attended by all faculty and graduate students. Graduate students practice giving scientific talks, presenting annual research-in-progress updates and receiving feedback from their peers and faculty. Prerequisite: Life sciences Graduate student.
Expert speakers are invited from within and outside UVM to present their research in the diverse fields of biology including cell, molecular and developmental biology, ecology, evolution, behavior and neuroscience. Prerequisite: Life sciences Graduate student.
Research for the Master's Thesis.
Graduate student work on individual or small team research projects under the supervision of a faculty member, for which credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion.
Research for the Doctoral Dissertation.