2025 Fall ESPM C105 001 LEC 001

2025 Fall

ESPM C105 001 - LEC 001

Natural History Museums and Biodiversity Science

Rosemary G Gillespie

Aug 27, 2025 - Dec 12, 2025
Tu, Th
03:30 pm - 04:59 pm
Class #:28273
Units: 3

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 2
Enrolled: 15
Waitlisted: 16
Capacity: 17
Waitlist Max: 20
Open Reserved Seats:
2 reserved for Conservation & Resource Studies Majors
Also offered as: INTEGBI C105

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.

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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

Reserved Seating For This Term

Current Enrollment

Open Reserved Seats:
2 reserved for Conservation & Resource Studies Majors

Textbooks & Materials

See class syllabus or https://calstudentstore.berkeley.edu/textbooks for the most current information.

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