Biology 395 - "Listening to Ecology"

The Organismal Biology and Ecology and Wildlife Biology Programs offer a weekly seminar series bringing well-known ecologists from across the country to speak at The University of Montana. The seminar series provides the opportunity for students to learn about important topics in current ecological research. This course will provide students with tools for listening to these seminar speakers with increased understanding of their scientific content and importance. Classroom activities will include discussion of each seminar speaker’s research in the form of a debate based on assigned readings carefully chosen to help students develop their analytical skills. This will be followed attendance of the seminar itself. Following these classroom activities, students will prepare a critique of both the form and content of the seminar presentation. The format for these critiques will also be carefully designed to build analytical and critical skills as the term progresses. The course will provide undergraduate students the skills needed to more fully appreciate the content of the Ecology Seminar Series, to read and evaluate primary scientific literature, and to track current ecological research.

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