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2017-2018 Scripps Catalog THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG. LINKS MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE AND CONTENT MAY BE OUT OF DATE!
Courses
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Descriptions are provided for courses offered at Scripps College and offered as part of joint or cooperative programs in which Scripps participates. For those courses that may appear under more than one discipline or department, the full course description appears under the discipline or department sponsoring the course and cross-reference is made under the associated discipline or department. Numbers followed by, for example, “AA,” “AF,” or “CH,” indicate courses sponsored by The Claremont Colleges as part of joint programs, i.e., Asian American Studies, Africana Studies, and Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies.
Please refer to the Schedule of Courses on the Scripps Portal published each semester by the Office of the Registrar for up-to-date information on course offerings.
All courses are 1.0 credit unless otherwise stated.
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BIOL 154L KS - Animal Behavior Lab Lectures, discussion, and videos will cover the biological approach to behavior. Topics covered include the physiological, neurological, genetic, evolutionary, and ecological aspects of behavior, with an emphasis on behavioral ecology. In this optional, no credit lab component students will design and conduct research related to lecture topics. This lab course carries no course credit.
Prerequisite(s): BIOL043L KS (or BIOL040L KS ), BIOL044L KS , or both semesters of the AISS course (AISS001ALKS , AISS001BLKS , AISS002ALKS , AISS002BLKS ) or instructor permission. Fee: Laboratory fee $50 Course Credit: no course credit Offered: Annually
Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
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BIOL 165 KS - Advanced Topics in Environmental Biology Readings and discussion of current technical journal articles in active areas of environmental biology. Topics are chosen for their current relevance and technical interest. Students present papers for class discussion, and conduct a formal literature review on the topic of their choice. Enrollment limited to 18.
Prerequisite(s): BIOL043L KS and BIOL044L KS , or BIOL040L KS and BIOL044L KS , or both semesters of the AISS course (AISS001ALKS , AISS001BLKS , AISS002ALKS , AISS002BLKS ). Course Credit: 1.0 Offered: Every fall
Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
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BIOL 199 KS - Independent Study in Biology, Chemistry, Physics Students who have the necessary qualifications, and who wish to investigate in depth an area of study not covered in regularly scheduled courses, may arrange with a faculty member for independent study under his or her direction. A limited opportunity open to all students with permission of instructor. Full or half course. Offered annually.
The faculty and the areas in which they are particularly willing to direct independent study are as follows:
- J. Armstrong: Genetics, cell and molecular biology; chromatin dynamics and gene regulation in the fruit fly.
- K. Black: Organic chemistry; reaction mechanisms studied by computational techniques.
- M. Coleman: Neurobiology, neurophysiology, neural basis of behavior, neural control of auditoryvocal learning in songbirds.
- G. Edwalds-Gilbert: Cell and molecular biology; pre-mRNA splicing in yeast.
- P. Ferree: Genetics, molecular biology, and early development of Drosophila (fruit flies) and Nasonia (jewel wasps); chromosome structure and evolution; host-pathogen interactions.
- F. Finseth: Genomics; evolutionary biology; genetics; selfish evolution, sexual selection, adaptation and speciation in Mimulus (monkeyflowers).
- A. Fucaloro: Physical chemistry, especially emission and absorption; molecular spectroscopy; electron impact.
- S. Gilman: Marine ecology; invertebrate biology; climate change ecology; biophysical ecology; population biology.
- S. Gould: Scanning probe microscopy; physics of sports.
- M. Hatcher-Skeers: Applications of nuclear resonance spectroscopy in determining the structure of DNA and other biological macromolecules.
- J. Higdon: Astrophysics; fluid dynamics; biophysics.
- A. Landsberg: Non-linear systems: pattern formation, bifurcation theory, chaos, Josephson Junctions.
- A. Leconte: Biochemical investigation of evolutionary intermediates.
- D. McFarlane: Evolutionary ecology; biogeography; late Quaternary paleoecology and extinctions.
- J. Monroy: Neural control and mechanics of animal movement; muscle physiology; comparative animal physiology.
- S. Naftilan: Binary stars; stellar atmospheres; cool stars.
- M. Preest: Physiology and ecology of animal energetics; thermal biology of terrestrial ectotherms; osmoregulatory physiology; herpetology; muscle physiology.
- K. Purvis-Roberts: Chemistry of urban air pollution, primarily aerosol; public policy aspects of air pollution.
- C. Robins: Applications of soil science research to challenges in geomorphology, plant ecology, and environmental science.
- B. Sanii: Experimental physical chemistry; self-assembly and bio-inspired folding of soft materials.
- L. Schmitz: Functional and evolutionary vertebrate morphology; paleobiology; evolution of vertebrate vision.
- R. Spence: Mechanisms of neurodegeneration and neural repair in animal models of disease.
- Z. Tang: Cell and molecular biology, biochemistry; cell cycle control in yeast.
- D. Thomson: Conservation biology, population modeling, ecology of biological invasions, plant ecology and plant/pollinator interactions.
- E. Van Arnam: Natural products chemistry and chemical ecology; structure, function, and evolution of microbial metabolites.
- A. Wenzel: Catalysis, asymmetric synthetic methodology.
- E. Wiley: Molecular biology; genetics; chromatin structure in the ciliate Tetrahymena.
- B. Williams: Paleoceanographic reconstructions on recent timescales from marine climate archives.
- N. Williams: Fundamental late-metal organometallic chemistry, mechanisms of basic organometallic reactions.
Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
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