Overview
Description
Extended field trip to acquaint students with the biota of selected desert or mountain areas.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
StandardRepeatable up to 6 credits
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate ability to identify desert plants and animals in two practical exams.
- develop their scientific writing skills in a series of take-home essays while demonstrating their understanding of specific topics in desert ecology.
- develop critical thinking skills by understanding the relationships between meteorology, geology, hydrology and desert ecology.
- collect and prepare specimens of desert plants and invertebrates.
- synthesize orally or in writing as assessed by a presentation and/or written report significance of current topic as presented in this course.