Timeroom: Fall 2024

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Natural Resources

NR 903 (01) - Approach to Research

Approach to Research

Credits: 2.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Graduate Credit/Fail grading

Class Size: 25
CRN: 10274

Provides incoming graduate students with an overview of the scientific method, peer review, and various research approaches and methods. Ethics, institutional and individual responsibilities, and effective communication are also addressed in a seminar and discussion format.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Instructors: Rem Moll

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024	W	8:10am - 10:00am	MURK G04

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Natural Resources

NR 977 (01) - Just Maps: Cartographies of Environmental Justice

Just Maps

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 10
CRN: 14696

Maps are ubiquitous. We carry them in our pockets, hang them on walls. We use maps to orient ourselves and rely on them to make meaning of social-environmental information. But whose space and time to maps employ? How do maps construct knowledge and to what social and political ends? What power dynamics do maps reflect and how do they become powerful themselves? This course explores such questions with focus on environmental in/justice. Completion of a GIS/Mapping course required prior to taking this course.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Instructors: Teresa Cohn

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024	MF	9:10am - 11:00am	SLS 118

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Natural Resources

NR 993 (01) - Natural and Environmental Resources Seminar

Sem/NorthrnForest:PthtoSustain

Credits: 2.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Graduate Credit/Fail grading

Class Size: 15
CRN: 13719

Presentation and discussion of recent research, literature, and policy problems in the natural and social sciences influencing resource use.

Section Comments: The Northern Forest: A Path to Sustainability

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Instructors: Mark Ducey

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024	W	11:10am - 1:00pm	SLS 120

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Natural Resources

NR 995 (01) - Investigations

Investigations

Credits: 1.0 to 4.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 10612

Investigations in Natural Resources may include topics in environmental conservation, forestry, soil science, water resources, and wildlife management.

Department Approval Required. Contact Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Instructors: STAFF

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024		Hours Arranged	TBA

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Natural Resources

NR 996 (01) - Natural Resource Education

Natural Resource Education

Credits: 2.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Graduate Credit/Fail grading

Class Size: 25
CRN: 10284

Responsibilities include set-up, teaching, and grading of one lab section per week or equivalent lecture experience. Meets the teaching requirement for M.S. degree students.

Section Comments: May not be repeated.

Department Approval Required. Contact Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Instructors: Jessica Ernakovich

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024		Hours Arranged	TBA

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Natural Resources

NR 998 (01) - Directed Research

Directed Research

Credits: 1.0 to 4.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Graduate Credit/Fail grading

Class Size: 5
CRN: 10250

Student designs and conducts original research that culminates in a paper of publishable quality. Alternative to NR 899 for those choosing non-thesis degree option. IA (continuous grading).

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits.

Instructors: Jessica Ernakovich

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024		Hours Arranged	TBA

Durham Graduate School :: Natural Resrcs&EarthSystemsSci

NRES 997 (01) - Interdisciplinary Research in Natural Resources and Earth and Environmental Sciences

Interdisciplinary Research

Credits: 1.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Graduate Credit/Fail grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 11497

This course provides NRESS students opportunities to build a peer network, discuss the nature of interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary research, and read papers from Natural Resources and Earth Systems primary literature. Weekly discussion of topics relevant to interdisciplinary research and careers, along with several guest speakers, are included. The course is facilitated by the NRESS faculty chair, and is required for incoming NRESS students.

Department Approval Required. Contact Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 2 credits.

Only listed majors in section: NRESS:ENSCIENCE, NRESS:ENSTUDIES

Instructors: Richard Smith

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024		Hours Arranged	TBA

Durham Graduate School :: Natural Resrcs&EarthSystemsSci

NRES 999 (01) - Doctoral Research

Doctoral Research

Credits: 0.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term - Grad Thesis (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Graduate Credit/Fail grading

Class Size: 80
CRN: 13948

Doctoral Research.

Instructors: Richard Smith, Wendy Rose

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024		Hours Arranged	TBA

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Neuroscience and Behavior

NSB 400 (01) - Topics Neuroscience & Behavior

Topics Neuroscience & Behavior

Credits: 1.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Credit/Fail Grading

Class Size: 50
CRN: 12454

This seminar type course is designed as an introductory experience for incoming first-year students, although it may be taken by students transferring into the major. Topics covered will include sensory biology, learning and memory, homing and navigation, neuromodulators and stress, reproductive behaviors. The format will rely heavily on discussion, prompted either by assigned readings or presentations by program faculty on their areas of expertise.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Only listed classes in section: Freshman

Only listed majors in section: NEUROSCI LA, NEUROSCI LSA

Instructors: Jill McGaughy

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024	T	3:40pm - 5:00pm	MCC 220

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Neuroscience and Behavior

NSB 500 (01) - Fundamentals of Neuroscience and Behavior I

Neuroscience and Behavior I

Credits: 3.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 48
CRN: 11912

The course will introduce students to the fundamental neural processes underlying behavior. It will begin with a detailed examination of the properties of individual neurons and then move on to demonstrate how neurons can communicate together to produce complex behaviors. Some of the basic concepts that will be covered will include: the molecular basis of electrical and chemical communication, sensory transduction and processing, neuropharmacology, the neural basis of reflexes and simple behavior, development of the nervous system and the influence of external stimuli on neural processing.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Prerequisite(s): BIOL 411 with minimum grade of C- and BIOL 412 and CHEM 403 and CHEM 404

Co-Requisite: NSB 501

Only listed majors in section: NEUROSCI LA, NEUROSCI LSA

Instructors: Adam Brockett

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024	TR	9:40am - 11:00am	KING N121

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