Timeroom: Spring 2025

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Zoology

ZOOL 529 (01) - Developmental Biology

Developmental Biology

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 15
CRN: 55698
Special Fees: $25.00

Developmental biology explores how organisms construct themselves in each generation, and how those processes interact with ecological and evolutionary forces. The course examines development in various phyla, with an overarching focus on the design and interpretation of experiments using both classical and modern techniques. Labs include student-designed experiments and observation of development in several species of vertebrate embryos. Lab.

Prerequisite(s): (BIOL 411 or BIOL 411H) and (BIOL 412 or BIOL 412H)

Equivalent(s): ZOOL 629

Instructors: Jessica Bolker

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	TR	11:10am - 12:30pm	PETT 109
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	T	2:10pm - 4:30pm	SLS 115

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Zoology

ZOOL 542 (01) - Ornithology

Ornithology

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 25
CRN: 50365

Identification and biology of birds, especially those of northeastern United States. Involves field trips, laboratory work, and lectures. (Spring semester only.)

Prerequisite(s): BIOL 412 or BIOL 412H

Classes not allowed in section: Freshman

Instructors: Janet Anderson

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	MWF	9:10am - 10:00am	RUDMAN G89
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	T	9:40am - 11:00am	JAMS 140

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Zoology

ZOOL 542 (02) - Ornithology

Ornithology

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 25
CRN: 50366

Identification and biology of birds, especially those of northeastern United States. Involves field trips, laboratory work, and lectures. (Spring semester only.)

Prerequisite(s): BIOL 412 or BIOL 412H

Classes not allowed in section: Freshman

Instructors: Janet Anderson

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	MWF	9:10am - 10:00am	RUDMAN G89
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	R	9:40am - 11:00am	JAMS 140

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Zoology

ZOOL 566 (01) - Herpetology

Herpetology

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 24
CRN: 55699
Special Fees: $30.00

This course will serve as an introduction to the morphology, behavior, and evolutionary ecology of reptiles (tuataras, turtles, snakes, lizards, and crocodilians) and amphibians (frogs, salamanders, and caecilians), with a special emphasis on New England taxa. The course will include field excursions, short-term research projects, and the comparative examination of specimens.

Prerequisite(s): BIOL 412 or BIOL 412H

Instructors: David Steinberg

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	MWF	1:10pm - 2:00pm	SLS G47
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	F	2:10pm - 4:00pm	SLS 219

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Zoology

ZOOL 600 (01) - Field Experience

Field Experience

Credits: 1.0 to 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Credit/Fail Grading

CRN: 50367

A supervised experience providing the opportunity to apply academic experience in settings associated with future professional employment and/or related graduate opportunities. Must be approved by a faculty advisor selected by the student.

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

Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits.

Instructors: STAFF

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025		Hours Arranged	TBA

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Zoology

ZOOL 625 (01) - Principles of Animal Physiology

Principles Animal Physiology

Credits: 3.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 70
CRN: 52698

Introduces the principles of animal function. The major systems (digestion, metabolism, respiration, circulation, osmotic and ionic regulation, nerve-muscle function, endocrine control) are covered with emphasis on functional mechanisms at the cell and tissue levels.

Prerequisite(s): (BIOL 411 or BIOL 411H) and (BIOL 412 or BIOL 412H)

Equivalent(s): ANSC 627, ANSC 717, ZOOL 519, ZOOL 627

Instructors: Brittany Jellison

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	MWF	9:10am - 10:00am	SLS G25

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Zoology

ZOOL 626W (01) - Animal Physiology Laboratory

Animal Physiology Laboratory

Credits: 2.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 54341
Special Fees: $20.00

Basic training in the measurement of function in animals, data analysis and expression, and the development of scientific communication skills.

Co-Requisite: ZOOL 625

Equivalent(s): ZOOL 626

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Brittany Jellison

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	R	2:10pm - 5:00pm	SLS 181

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Zoology

ZOOL 626W (02) - Animal Physiology Laboratory

Animal Physiology Laboratory

Credits: 2.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 54342
Special Fees: $20.00

Basic training in the measurement of function in animals, data analysis and expression, and the development of scientific communication skills.

Co-Requisite: ZOOL 625

Equivalent(s): ZOOL 626

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Brittany Jellison

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	R	5:10pm - 8:00pm	SLS 181

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Zoology

ZOOL 690 (01) - Evolution

Evolution

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 50
CRN: 55886

Evolutionary biology is about uncovering the past, understanding the present, and predicting the future of animals, plants, and microbes. Is also offers insight into how scientific ideas change through time. This course covers natural selection and adaptation, phylogeny, population genetics and structure, origins and extinction of species, domestication, and evolutionary medicine. Additional topics may include human evolution and evolutionary impacts, biogeography, and social evolution, as well as the intersections between evolution, ecology and development.

Prerequisite(s): (BIOL 411 or BIOL 411H) and (BIOL 412 or BIOL 412H)

Equivalent(s): ZOOL 690W

Instructors: David Steinberg

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	MWF	8:10am - 9:00am	SLS G25

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Zoology

ZOOL 736 (01) - Genes and Behavior

Genes and Behavior

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 25
CRN: 55029

Genes and behavior examines the genetic underpinnings of animal behavior, and how behavior evolves on a genetic level. The course primarily relies on readings from the primary literature, using examples from laboratory model organisms, animals in their natural habitats, and humans. Topics include aggressiveness, social behavior, personality, parental care, communication, mating behavior, novelty seeking behavior, and foraging. This interdisciplinary course examines these behaviors at multiple levels, including genomics, population genetics, molecular genetics, epigenetics, endocrinology, and neurobiology.

Prerequisite(s): (GEN 604 or ANSC 612) and (ZOOL 613 or ZOOL 613W)

Cross listed with : ZOOL 836.01

Instructors: Janet Anderson

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	MWF	10:10am - 11:00am	SLS G47