13 courses with the subject PLE, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
0 TO 3 Examines the interaction of organisms and their biotic and abiotic environment, population dynamics and interactions, community structure and function, and ecosystem energetics and biogeochemistry. Two lecture and three laboratory hours weekly. Offered Fall and Spring, annually.
Case history approach to the analysis and possible resolution of both terrestrial and aquatic environmental problems. Students analyze problems from a number of perspectives, including the biological, in an assessment of the problem. Incorporates sample design, cost considerations, data collection, and analysis into the assessment. Overall assessment of problems and possible resolutions will be conveyed both orally and in a written format. Intended as a capstone for students in the Applied Ecology Program, but appropriate for other students who meet prerequisites. Satisfies the writing intensive and second values flags of the university general education requirements.
0 OR 3 A field-based course designed to give students hands-on experience in the various methods needed in environmental studies. The course will focus on the environmental assessment of terrestrial and aquatic habitats and the impacts of perturbations on flora, fauna, and natural landscapes. Summer, on demand.
This course concerns the study of the ecology, management, and conservation of forest ecosystems focusing on the eastern deciduous forest biome. Overnight field trips will be taken to study the major regional forest types
A brief review of wildlife conservation will be followed by a review of ecological principles including population ecology. Application of these principles in management of wetlands, farmlands, range lands and forest lands for wildlife precedes more specialized aspects such as exotic, urban, nongame, and endangered wildlife programs.
A field course focusing on the population and community ecology of freshwater fishes. Topics covered include identification, age and growth, life-history, trophic interactions, biogeography, and applied aspects of fish ecology including management. The course will involve extensive field sampling as well as experimental approaches.
0 OR 3 Field-based course emphasizing the identification and natural history of common vascular plants native to western Pennsylvania and methods used to study them. Course will be taught at a time when the spring flora is conspicuous.
0 OR 3 Field-oriented study of the physics, chemistry, and biology of standing and flowing inland waters.
0 OR 3 Wetlands are an important transitional habitat from terrestrial to aquatic systems. They provide services that are critical to the health and functioning of the ecosystem, but in many ways wetlands defy easy definition. This class will investigate the different types of wetlands, the properties that define wetlands, the benefits they supply to the ecosystem and society, and the history and present status of ecosystem management.
Behavior is studied from an evolutionary and ecological perspective. Current models of foraging, mating and social behavior are evaluated through lecture, readings, observations and experiments. Three hours lecture and three hours laboratory.
This course integrates the field of ecology, epidemiology, parasitology and traditional disease biology to better understand the occurrence, dynamics and consequences of diseases. Students will learn how epidemiological and ecological concepts and theories apply to disease systems.
Deals with the biology of birds. Lectures cover topics such as classification; internal and external adaptations for flight, migration, nesting, feeding habits, behavior, ecology, and physiology. Two lectures and three laboratory or field trip hours per week.
Students will study the ecology and evolution of amphibians and reptiles. Topics to be studied include behavior, morphology, physiology, taxonomic diversity, systematic practice, evolutionary biology, and conservation biology. Course includes a substantial field component. Taught summer session, Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology
Source: Pennsylvania Western University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
