2025 Fall
INTEGBI C105 101 - LAB 101
Natural History Museums and Biodiversity Science
Aug 27, 2025 - Dec 12, 2025
12:00 am
Class #:22977
Units: 3
Instruction Mode:
In-Person Instruction
Offered through
Integrative Biology
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
3
Enrolled: 19
Waitlisted: 5
Capacity: 22
Waitlist Max: 10
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
Textbooks & Materials
See class syllabus or https://calstudentstore.berkeley.edu/textbooks for the most current information.
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