Teaching

Biology (Sci): The characteristics of the major groups of animals, their ancestry, history and relationship to one another. The processes of speciation, adaptive radiation and extinction responsible for diversity. Methods for constructing of phylogenies, for comparing phenotypes, and for estimating and analyzing diversity.

Offered by: Biology

• Winter
• 2 hours lecture and 1 three-hour laboratory
• Prerequisite: BIOL 215 or both ENVR 200 and ENVR 202

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Biology (Sci): Application of methods and techniques used by organismal biologists, paired with the design of sampling programs to test hypotheses using observational or experimental data, and the analysis of data. Topics include DNA barcoding/metabarcoding and experimental evolution.

Offered by: Biology

• Prerequisites: BIOL 200 or BIOL 219; BIOL 206, COMP 204, and BIOL 202 or BIOL 302.
• Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken BIOL 206 prior to Fall 2020

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Biology (Sci): Overview of concepts and current research in quantitative biology; theoretical ecology and evolution, computational biology, and physical biology.

Offered by: Biology

• Fall
• Prerequisites: BIOL 219; or BIOL 200 plus BIOL 201 or ANAT 212 or BIOC 212; CHEM 212; COMP 202 or COMP 204 or COMP 250; MATH 222; or permission of instructor.
• Restriction: Only open to U2 students in the following programs: B.Sc.; Major and Honours in Biology; Quantitative Biology, B.Sc.; Major and Honours Computer Science and Biology, B.Sc.; Major Biology and Mathematics, B.Sc.; Major Physiology and Mathematics, B.Sc.; Major Physiology and Physics, B.Sc.; Major and Honours Chemistry; Biophysical Chemistry, and B.Sc.; Major and Honours Physics; Biological Physics.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Biology (Sci): Introduction to modern methods used in organismal biology, including ecological sampling, experimental methods and statistics. Particular emphasis is on ways of thinking about the design of sampling programs and the analyses of data to test hypotheses using observational or experimental data.

Offered by: Biology

• Fall
• 1. 2 hours lecture, 2. 3 hours laboratory
• Prerequisite: BIOL 111 or equivalent

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Biology (Sci): The characteristics of the major groups of animals, their ancestry, history and relationship to one another. The processes of speciation, adaptive radiation and extinction responsible for diversity. Methods for constructing of phylogenies, for comparing phenotypes, and for estimating and analyzing diversity.

Offered by: Biology

• Winter
• 2 hours lecture and 1 three-hour laboratory
• Prerequisite: BIOL 215 or both ENVR 200 and ENVR 202

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Biology (Sci): Principles of population, community, and ecosystem dynamics: population growth and regulation, species interactions, dynamics of competitive interactions and of predator/prey systems; evolutionary dynamics.

Offered by: Biology

• Fall
• 3 hours lecture, 1 hour computer lab/tutorial
• Prerequisite: BIOL 215 or both ENVR 200 and ENVR 202

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Biology (Sci): Methods of sampling natural populations. Testing hypotheses in nature.

Offered by: Biology

• Prerequisites: BIOL 206 and BIOL 215, or equivalents, or permission of the instructor.
• Note: This course has an additional fee. The Department of Biology subsidizes a portion of the cost for this activity.
• The field portion of this course is given at the University’s Gault Nature Reserve in Mont St. Hilare over a two-week period in the summer term. In the summer, students prepare a report based on projects carried out during this field portion. There is an additional fee of $688.37 that covers room and board and handouts. This fee could be refundable if the department approves it.
• **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is the sixth lecture day.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Biology (Sci): Overview of concepts and current research in quantitative biology; theoretical ecology and evolution, computational biology, and physical biology.

Offered by: Biology

• Fall
• Prerequisites: BIOL 219; or BIOL 200 plus BIOL 201 or ANAT 212 or BIOC 212; CHEM 212; COMP 202 or COMP 204 or COMP 250; MATH 222; or permission of instructor.
• Restriction: Only open to U2 students in the following programs: B.Sc.; Major and Honours in Biology; Quantitative Biology, B.Sc.; Major and Honours Computer Science and Biology, B.Sc.; Major Biology and Mathematics, B.Sc.; Major Physiology and Mathematics, B.Sc.; Major Physiology and Physics, B.Sc.; Major and Honours Chemistry; Biophysical Chemistry, and B.Sc.; Major and Honours Physics; Biological Physics.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Biology (Sci): A study of the physical, chemical and biological properties of lakes and other inland waters, with emphasis on their functioning as systems.

Offered by: Biology

• Fall
• 3 hours lecture
• Prerequisites: BIOL 206 and BIOL 215 or permission of instructor.
• Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ENVB 315.
• This course, involving two field weekends, has an additional fee of $353.32, which includes room and board and transportation. The fee is refundable during the period where a student can drop the course with full refund. The Department of Biology subsidizes a portion of the cost for this activity.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year