Electives

2025 Fall
#28273

Natural History Museums and Biodiversity Science

Rosemary G Gillespie, George K Roderick
Aug 27, 2025 - Dec 12, 2025
Tu, Th
03:30 pm - 04:59 pm

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Open Seats

ESPM C105 - LEC 001 Natural History Museums and Biodiversity Science more detail
(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.
2025 Fall
#28228

Principles of Conservation Biology

Aug 27, 2025 - Dec 12, 2025
Th
03:30 pm - 04:59 pm

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Open Seats

20 Unreserved Seats

ESPM C103 - DIS 103 Principles of Conservation Biology more detail
A survey of the principles and practices of conservation biology. Factors that affect the creation, destruction, and distribution of biological diversity at the level of the gene, species, and ecosystem are examined. Tools and management options derived from ecology and evolutionary biology that can recover or prevent the loss of biological diversity are explored.
2025 Fall
#28227

Principles of Conservation Biology

Aug 27, 2025 - Dec 12, 2025
Th
02:00 pm - 03:29 pm

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

No Open Seats
ESPM C103 - DIS 102 Principles of Conservation Biology more detail
A survey of the principles and practices of conservation biology. Factors that affect the creation, destruction, and distribution of biological diversity at the level of the gene, species, and ecosystem are examined. Tools and management options derived from ecology and evolutionary biology that can recover or prevent the loss of biological diversity are explored.
2025 Fall
#28226

Principles of Conservation Biology

Aug 27, 2025 - Dec 12, 2025
Fr
09:30 am - 10:59 am

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Open Seats

4 Unreserved Seats

ESPM C103 - DIS 101 Principles of Conservation Biology more detail
A survey of the principles and practices of conservation biology. Factors that affect the creation, destruction, and distribution of biological diversity at the level of the gene, species, and ecosystem are examined. Tools and management options derived from ecology and evolutionary biology that can recover or prevent the loss of biological diversity are explored.
2025 Fall
#28225

Principles of Conservation Biology

Alejandra Echeverri Ochoa
Aug 27, 2025 - Dec 12, 2025
Tu, Th
12:30 pm - 01:59 pm

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Open Seats

ESPM C103 - LEC 001 Principles of Conservation Biology more detail
A survey of the principles and practices of conservation biology. Factors that affect the creation, destruction, and distribution of biological diversity at the level of the gene, species, and ecosystem are examined. Tools and management options derived from ecology and evolutionary biology that can recover or prevent the loss of biological diversity are explored.
2025 Fall
#24680
DATA C131A 102 - LAB 102 offered through Data Science Undergraduate Studies

Statistical Methods for Data Science

Aug 27, 2025 - Dec 12, 2025
Tu, Th
02:00 pm - 03:00 pm

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

No Open Seats
DATA C131A - LAB 102 Statistical Methods for Data Science more detail
This course teaches a broad range of statistical methods that are used to solve data problems. Topics include group comparisons and ANOVA, standard parametric statistical models, multivariate data visualization, multiple linear regression, logistic regression and classification, regression trees and random forests. An important focus of the course is on statistical computing and reproducible statistical analysis. The course and lab include hands-on experience in analyzing real world data from the social, life, and physical sciences. The R statistical language is used.
2025 Fall
#24679
DATA C131A 101 - LAB 101 offered through Data Science Undergraduate Studies

Statistical Methods for Data Science

Aug 27, 2025 - Dec 12, 2025
Tu, Th
10:00 am - 11:00 am

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

No Open Seats
DATA C131A - LAB 101 Statistical Methods for Data Science more detail
This course teaches a broad range of statistical methods that are used to solve data problems. Topics include group comparisons and ANOVA, standard parametric statistical models, multivariate data visualization, multiple linear regression, logistic regression and classification, regression trees and random forests. An important focus of the course is on statistical computing and reproducible statistical analysis. The course and lab include hands-on experience in analyzing real world data from the social, life, and physical sciences. The R statistical language is used.
2025 Fall
#24678
DATA C131A 001 - LEC 001 offered through Data Science Undergraduate Studies

Statistical Methods for Data Science

Shobhana Murali Stoyanov
Aug 27, 2025 - Dec 12, 2025
Tu, Th
08:00 am - 09:29 am

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

No Open Seats
DATA C131A - LEC 001 Statistical Methods for Data Science more detail
This course teaches a broad range of statistical methods that are used to solve data problems. Topics include group comparisons and ANOVA, standard parametric statistical models, multivariate data visualization, multiple linear regression, logistic regression and classification, regression trees and random forests. An important focus of the course is on statistical computing and reproducible statistical analysis. The course and lab include hands-on experience in analyzing real world data from the social, life, and physical sciences. The R statistical language is used.
2025 Fall
#20422

Chemical Biology

Anne M Baranger
Aug 27, 2025 - Dec 12, 2025
Mo, We, Fr
10:00 am - 10:59 am

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Open Seats

90 Unreserved Seats

CHEM 135 - LEC 001 Chemical Biology more detail
One-semester introduction to biochemistry, aimed toward chemistry and chemical biology majors.
2025 Fall
#20428

Biophysical Chemistry: Physical Principles and the Molecules of Life

Aug 27, 2025 - Dec 12, 2025
Fr
10:00 am - 10:59 am
Social Sciences Building 54

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Open Seats

11 Unreserved Seats

CHEM C130 - DIS 102 Biophysical Chemistry: Physical Principles and the Molecules of Life more detail
Thermodynamic and kinetic concepts applied to understanding the chemistry and structure of biomolecules (proteins, DNA, and RNA). Molecular distributions, reaction kinetics, enzyme kinetics. Bioenergetics, energy transduction, and motor proteins. Electrochemical potential, membranes, and ion channels.