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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course takes a literary approach to the Bible: only one, of course, of the many possible approaches to this rich and fascinating text. Nevertheless this approach to the Bible is justified both because the Bible is a literary masterpiece and because such an approach provides a clear focus for students. Students will read and discuss selections from the three major divisions of the Bible: the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Apocrypha. Students will also read famous stories such as Joseph and his brothers, Moses and Exodus, Samson and Delilah, Jonah and the Whale, Susanne and the Elders, the raising of Lazarus, and the trial and execution of Jesus.
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0.00 Credits
0 credits, 3 hours per week Required for students placed into this course as a result of the basis skills English testing program. This intensive course reviews effective reading, writing, and study processes and leads students to the level of mastery required to begin LL-131 English Composition the following semester.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits An intensive essay writing course that provides students with the analytical, rhetorical, and research skills needed to write well in many disciplines. Source-based writing is emphasized, culminating in a significant research project. In-class and outside-class writing methods are explored, leading students to master their individual writing processes. Prerequisite: LL-037 or satisfactory score on basic skills English test.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Investigates the interrelationships among the geological, chemical, physical, and biological aspects of oceanography. Topics include origin and evolution of ocean basins; physical characteristics of modern oceans; seawater chemistry; ocean and atmosphere interactions; ocean currents; waves and tides; coastal processes; biological productivity; and diversity, distribution and adaptations of marine organisms. Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on the processes that connect the seemingly separate topics to each other and to human life. Weekend field trips may be required. Three hours of lecture per week.
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1.00 Credits
1 credit Introduction to the fundamental aspects of geological, chemical, physical, and biological oceanography. Students learn through inquiry-based, hands-on exercises and activities using actual data collected in the lab and in the field. Independent projects and local field trips during lab and on the weekend may be required. One three-hour lab per week. Concurrent enrollment in or previous completion of MAR-120 is required.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Survey of the important developments in marine life over the last three billion years from the Pre-Cambrian evolution of onecelled organisms, through the Cambrian explosion of complex marine invertebrate life and subsequent diversification of backboned organisms in the Ordovician time, to the colonization of marginal marine and freshwater habitats in the Silurian-Devonian geological periods, and ultimately to extinctions during global crises of the late Devonian, Permian, Triassic, Cretaceous, and Pleistocene time intervals. The emphasis is on evolutionary adaptive breakthroughs within each phylum, particularly the significant morphological and anatomical innovations, and the subsequent radiation of these higher taxa into new habitats and niches through geologic time. Three hours of lecture and one threehour lab per week. Prerequisites: GEO-100 or GEO-113, GEO-102 or BIO-115 or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Quantitative comparison of (1) properties of sediments and hard bottoms; (2) associated diversity, abundance, size, and zonation of algae/plants and animals; and (3) physicalchemical properties of sea water. Habitats studied include rocky intertidal and subtidal pools, turtle grass beds, foraminiferal sandy beaches, hypersaline mangrove lagoons, quiet water fouling communities, soft coral shoals, red algal boiler reefs, and coral reefs. Emphasis on exercises involving field and laboratory instrumental analyses, group mapping project, and individual experimental research projects. Taught at the Bermuda Biological Station, Bermuda. Summer Session I.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Quantitative comparison of (1) properties of sediments and hard bottoms; (2) associated diversity, abundance, size, and zonation of algae and animals; and (3) physical-chemical properties of sea water. Habitats studied include wave-exposed and wave-protected rocky intertidal pools and algal communities, shingled cobble beaches, subtidal surge channels and urchin barrens, kelp beds, and shelfal and bottom habitats. Emphasis on exercises involving field and laboratory instrumental analyses, group mapping project, and individual experimental research projects. Taught at the Shoals Marine Laboratory, Gulf of Maine. Summer Session I.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Quantitative comparison of bottom environments, including (1) composition and texture of sediments and hard bottoms; (2) associated diversity, abundance, size, and zonation of marine algae, grasses, mangroves, and animals (interstitial meiofauna to macroinvertebrates) and (3) physio-chemical properties of sea water. Habitats studied include turtle grass beds, mangrove swamps, sandy beaches, rocky intertidal pools, and reefs (backreef to reef crest to forereef to reef channel). Emphasis on exercises which develop skills involving field and laboratory instrumental analyses, group mapping project, and individual experimental research projects. Taught at the Institute of Marine Sciences, Roatan, Honduras. Summer Session I.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits A survey of the biology of marine vertebrate animals, including fish (jawless fish, sharks, rays, and bony fish), reptiles (sea turtles and sea snakes), sea birds, and mammals (manatees, seals, and whales). The evolution, physiology, natural history, ecological relationships, and human interactions of these groups are emphasized. Three hours of lecture and one three-hour lab per week. Three all-day field trips (field trips will substitute for laboratories). Prerequisite: BIO-272.
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