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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Any 200-level AST This is a course for students who wish to gain a working knowledge of observational astronomy and discusses its various techniques. Topics include instrumentation; stars and constellations; coordinates and angular measurements. Students will learn their way around the night sky through readings and observations, and through the hands-on use of telescopes and binoculars. Students will learn lunar features and be able to identify stars and constellations. They will also learn to use the Bentley College Observatory telescopes and binoculars to locate and observe the Sun, Moon, planets, double stars, open and globular star clusters, comets, nebulae, and galaxies. Weather-permitting, there will be field trips to a dark sky observing site where students will have the opportunity to view through a mobile 25" telescope.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Any 200-level AST or PHY Taking perspective from astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, physics and philosophy, the course discusses the scientific basis for extra-terrestrial life and the technology required to search for it. Discusses the literature on this topic as well as investigates any possible evidence that we may have already been contacted! Reading material is from the texts and from review articles appearing in Scientific American. Students will be asked to complete required readings and analyze the possibility of detecting and communicating with life outside the earth, through class discussions. A take home project and in-class presentation will be required.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Any 200-level AST or PHY The history of astronomy in the past century is dominated by the unlocking of the mysteries of the macroscopic universe. This course covers a subject at the frontiers of astronomy through lectures and readings from Scientific American and other sources. Topics covered include: Spiral nebulae and island universes; the mapping of our Milky Way and the discovery of galactic clustering; normal and active galaxies; the quasar controversy and their nature; and the theories concerning the history and the future of the Universe.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces students to the essential mechanisms of human biology and their applications. The course develops an innovative approach in which complex human systems are explored as a consequence of the expression of the genes comprising the human genome, the function of metabolic pathways, and the electrochemical properties of cells. Knowledge of these three basic mechanisms are used to understand scientific discoveries in the news, controversies in biomedicine, and the development of new biopharmaceutical products. The emphasis on this course is on the understanding the broad applicability of basic biological mechanisms to issues of personal, temporal, or business interest. Grading will be based on exams, laboratory reports, an oral presentation, and a final paper.
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4.00 Credits
Ecological and botanical examples and models will provide connections to basic concepts of biology. These concepts will be investigated through lectures, field trips, laboratory exercises, demonstrations, computer simulations, and internet resources. For example, cell structure and function and resulting tissues will be related to sources of economically important botanical products and primary productivity in ecosystems. Natural selection and genetic inheritance will be applied to plant breeding, conservation of genetic diversity, and management of natural and human-made ecosystems. Topics related to the study of human populations will include population growth rates, complete nutrition from botanical sources, spread of disease, and environmental impacts. Throughout the course an understanding of the evolutionary implications of past environments, species interactions, and human activities will be emphasized.
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4.00 Credits
Note: This is an honors-only course In this highly interactive honors seminar, students critically analyze in papers and student-led class discussions readings from a wide variety of sources not normally used in traditional science classes. In readings about the Salem witch trials, satanic cults, recovered memories of abuse, UFOs, and the FDA drug approval process, students examine the scientific process as a way of knowing. The concepts, mechanisms, and consequences of Darwin's theory of evolution are examined and applied throughout the course as "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." Students will critically debate the application of evolutionary thinking to modern problems in evolutionary psychology and behavioral genetics: Is there an evolutionary explanation for rape Is there a gay gene Each student will be responsible for collaboratively teaching one seminar focused on one gene or group of genes on one chromosome as a means to understand a basic concept of human genetics. C
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Any 200-level BIO Explores many different types of animal behaviors, such as choosing mates, protecting relatives, guarding territories, escaping predators, forming societies, as well as feeding, communicating, and migrating. Investigates the development and evolution of these behaviors through natural selection to help explain how and why they exist. A variety of invertebrate and vertebrate examples are presented in lectures, labs, and student presentations. Course includes field trips to a local habitat and the New England Aquarium.
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3.00 Credits
Covers the fundamental principles of nutrition science and its applications to personal health and fitness at different stages of the life cycle: the nature and sources of nutrients, their actions, interactions, and balance in relation to health and disease; the anatomy and physiology of ingestion, digestion, absorption, transport, utilization, and excretion of nutrients, their metabolites, as well as other components in food; the effects of nutrient inadequacies and excesses in our diets in relation to physical and mental well-being and the etiology of disease; the social, economic, cultural, and psychological factors that affect the dietary behavior of individuals and population groups; and associated local, national, and global nutritional issues and problems. Emphasis is placed on acquiring both scientific and practical knowledge of the essentials of nutrition with the goal of learning to think critically about nutrition issues as lifelong consumers.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Any 200-level BIO or CHM A field-oriented course investigating various ecosystems of Cape Cod, focusing on the variety and types of organisms found in each area and their interrelationships with their natural surroundings. The ecosystems to be studied in this one-week intensive course on Cape Cod include sandy beaches and dunes, salt marshes, estuaries, rocky intertidal habitats, saltwater and freshwater ponds, and a rare Atlantic Cedar swamp.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar explores the evolutionary origins and structures of mind, brain and consciousness. Students will critically review recent studies from diverse disciplines, including evolutionary biology and psychology, physical anthropology, the brain and cognitive sciences, and neurology as well as examine the questions raised by philosophy of mind. The biology underlying perception, emotions, language, memory, learning and consciousness will be studied though both readings and laboratory exercises.
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