ACADEMICS
COURSES OFFERED
You may choose one course. Upon successful completion of the requirements of the course, three semester hours credit will be earned. A letter grade will be given and no "Incompletes" will be issued.
BIO 125 Exploring Biodiversity (C1 general education course for non-majors; 3 credit hours)
This course provides students with a theoretical and experiential overview of biological diversity. Topical themes of this course include the human connections to biodiversity, benefits of biodiversity, spatial patterns and biological scales of biodiversity, historic and contemporary threats to biodiversity, local to global trends of extinction and endangerment, data collection and analysis techniques, and site-specific management practices to conserve or restore biodiversity. In addition, students are asked to consider and devise solutions to conservation issues within a sociopolitical context. This lecture course has an extensive field-based (outdoor) component where students will experience and interact with biodiversity in Belize. (Taught by Dr. Chris Habeck)
BIO 356 Conservation Biology (Biology majors only; 3 credit hours)
Same content as described above for BIO 125, but taught at a level appropriate for a Biology majors.
BIO 270 - Research Methods in Biology (Biology majors only; 3 credit hours)
This course will provide students the opportunity to conduct research in a tropical forests setting. Students will gain the skills necessary to develop scientific questions and hypotheses, design and carry out experiments to test their hypotheses, and present their results to the class. (Taught by Dr. Matt Stone)
CLASS, STUDY SITES, AND EXCURSIONS
Classes will be held each day, using both formal and informal classroom settings. Informal settings include destinations such as the Belize Zoo, Bladen Nature Reserve, the coral reefs near South Water Caye, and Cockscomb Basin Jaguar Reserve. Students will also have one free day in the beach town of Placencia.
You may choose one course. Upon successful completion of the requirements of the course, three semester hours credit will be earned. A letter grade will be given and no "Incompletes" will be issued.
BIO 125 Exploring Biodiversity (C1 general education course for non-majors; 3 credit hours)
This course provides students with a theoretical and experiential overview of biological diversity. Topical themes of this course include the human connections to biodiversity, benefits of biodiversity, spatial patterns and biological scales of biodiversity, historic and contemporary threats to biodiversity, local to global trends of extinction and endangerment, data collection and analysis techniques, and site-specific management practices to conserve or restore biodiversity. In addition, students are asked to consider and devise solutions to conservation issues within a sociopolitical context. This lecture course has an extensive field-based (outdoor) component where students will experience and interact with biodiversity in Belize. (Taught by Dr. Chris Habeck)
BIO 356 Conservation Biology (Biology majors only; 3 credit hours)
Same content as described above for BIO 125, but taught at a level appropriate for a Biology majors.
BIO 270 - Research Methods in Biology (Biology majors only; 3 credit hours)
This course will provide students the opportunity to conduct research in a tropical forests setting. Students will gain the skills necessary to develop scientific questions and hypotheses, design and carry out experiments to test their hypotheses, and present their results to the class. (Taught by Dr. Matt Stone)
CLASS, STUDY SITES, AND EXCURSIONS
Classes will be held each day, using both formal and informal classroom settings. Informal settings include destinations such as the Belize Zoo, Bladen Nature Reserve, the coral reefs near South Water Caye, and Cockscomb Basin Jaguar Reserve. Students will also have one free day in the beach town of Placencia.
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