CBS 01530 - Organismal Foundations of Biological Systems

Credits: 3

This is a core course in the Complex Biological Systems graduate program. This course will emphasize the relationship between organismal form and function with an emphasis on natural selection and the effects of evolutionary history. Problem-based approaches will address organismal questions from various research angles to develop students’ inquisitive research skills. Students will learn about investigative and experimental methodologies to address relevant questions in modern organismal biology. Topics will include a unifying biological problem shared with other foundational courses (e.g., biological impacts of pollutants) to provide students with analyses at the organismal scale of that problem as part of a cohesive body of scientific knowledge across scales.

Course Attributes: GCAT, GRAD