2018 Fall
ESPM C105 101 - LAB 101
Natural History Museums and Biodiversity Science
Aug 22, 2018 - Dec 07, 2018
12:00 am
Off Campus
Class #:26704
Units: 3
Offered through
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
0
Enrolled:
Waitlisted:
Capacity:
Waitlist Max:
No Reserved Seats
Hours & Workload
2 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 4 hours of outside work hours per week, and 3 hours of instructional experiences requiring special laboratory equipment and facilities per week.
Course Catalog Description
(1) survey of museum resources, including strategies for accession, conservation, collecting and acquiring material, administration, and policies; (2) strategies for making collections digitally available (digitization, databasing, georeferencing, mapping); (3) tools and approaches for examining historical specimens (genomics, isotopes, ecology, morphology, etc); and (4) data integration and inference. The final third of the course will involve individual projects within a given museum.
Rules & Requirements
Repeat Rules
Course is not repeatable for credit.
Reserved Seats
Current Enrollment
No Reserved Seats