Lectures:

Week 1:  Introduction to Ecology

Week 2:  Scientific Method

               Community Ecology

Week 3:  Disturbance/Succession

               Restoration Ecology

Week 4:  Dendrochronology

Weeks 5:  Cell Division: Mitosis

Week 6 & 7:  Cell Division: Meiosis

Week 8:  History of Evolutionary Thought/Natural Selection/Speciation  Salmon Natural Selection Example

Week 9:  SPRING BREAK--NO CLASS

Week 10: Natural Selection/Speciation

Week 11 & 12:  Mendelian & Population Genetics

Week 13: Human Population Ecology

Weeks 14 & 15: Conservation Biology

                        Ecosystem Ecology