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Fall Semester Course Listings
(August 25 - December 14, 2008)

The Marine Laboratory fall semester program is designed for Duke and non-Duke undergraduates and graduate students who have adequate preparation in the natural and social sciences.

Fall Beaufort Signature Travel Courses

Tropical Marine Ecology >
(short course with field trip to Panama during fall break:
Friday, October 10 - Sunday, October 19). Diaz
BIOLOGY 207AL NS, R (undergraduate and graduate registration),
0.5 course (2 semester hours)
   
   
   

Marine Ecology of the Pacific >
(short course with field trip to coast of California during fall break:
Saturday, October 11 - Sunday, October 19). Crowder
BIOLOGY 207BL NS, STS (undergraduate and graduate registration) 0.5 course (2 semester hours)

Marine Studies in Brittany >
(short course with field trip to Brittany, France during fall break: Friday, October 10 through Sunday, October 19).
Van Dover
BIOLOGY 207EL NS, STS (undergraduate and graduate registration) 0.5 course (2 semester hours)

General Course Listings

Under Ocean's Spell Ferraro
   ENGLISH 173S ALP, CCI, EI, W (undergraduate registration) 1.0 course (3 semester hours)

Genetics and Molecular Biology (lecture). Schultz
    BIOLOGY 118 NS, STS(undergraduate registration) 1.0 course (3 semester hours)

Analysis of Ocean Ecosystems (lecture) Osterberg
     BIOLOGY 123 NS (undergraduate registration), 1.0 course (3 semester hours)
     ENVIRON 123 NS (undergraduate registration), 1.0 course (3 semester hours)
     ENVIRON 293 (graduate registration), 3 units (3 semester hours)

Marine Mammals (lecture course) Read
      BIOLOGY 126 NS, STS (undergraduate registration); 1.0 course (3 semester hours)
      ENVIRON 226 (graduate registration); 3 units (3 semester hours)

Marine Megafauna (lecture course) Crowder and Johnston
***taught on the Durham campus in Fall 2008***
     For information email megafauna@nicholas.duke.edu
     BIOLOGY 127 NS, STS (undergraduate registration), 1.0 course (3 semester hours)
     ENVIRON 127 NS, SS (undergraduate registration), 1.0 course (3 semester hours)

Marine Ecology (lecture &lab course) Kirby-Smith.
      BIOLOGY 129L NS, R, W (undergraduate registration); 1.0 course (4 semester hours)
      ENVIRON 139L NS, R, W (undergraduate registration); 1.0 course (4 semester hours)
      BIOLOGY 203L / ENVIRON 219L (graduate registration); 4 units (4 semester hours)

Physiology of Marine Animals (lecture & lab) Forward
      BIOLOGY 150L NS, R, W (undergraduate registration); 1.0 course (4 semester hours)
      BIOLOGY 253L/ ENVIRON 228L (graduate registration), 4 units (4 semester hours)

Vertebrate and Invertebrate Endocrinology (lecture) Rittschof
      BIOLOGY 254 NS, STS (undergraduate registration); 1.0 course (3 semester hours)

Environmental Biochemistry:Respiratory Proteins and the Environment (lecture).
Celia Bonaventura
     CELLBIO 243 (undergraduate and graduate registration), 1.0 course or 3 units
      (3 semester hours)
     ENVIRON 243 (undergraduate and graduate registration), 1.0 course or 3 units
      (3 semester hours)

Marine Policy (lecture course) Orbach
      ENVIRON 175 EI, SS, STS (undergrad registration); 1.0 course or 3 units (3 semester hours)
      ENVIRON 276 (graduate registration); 1.0 course or 3 units (3 semester hours)
      POLSCI 264 (undergradraduate registration); 1.0 course (3 semester hours)
      PUBPOL 297 (undergradraduate registration); 1.0 course (3 semester hours)

Qualitative Research Design (lecture course) Campbell
      ENVIRON 254 (graduate registration only); 3 units

Professional Writing and Self-editing Twardy
      ENVIRON 298.09 (graduate registration only); 3 units 

Green by Design. Implementing Environmental Sustainability (Seminar and Lab)
Rittschof and Staff
      ENVIRON 298.46 SS, STS (undergraduate and graduate registration);
      1.0 course or 3 units (3 semester hours)

Political Ecology Campbell
      ENVIRON 360S (graduate registration);
      3 units (3 semester hours)

Seminar in Coastal Environmental Management. Orbach
      ENVIRON 398.02; (graduate registration only); 1 unit

General Physics Tyndall
      PHY 53L NS (undergraduate registration only); 1.0 course (4 semester hours)

Independent Study Faculty
     BIOLOGY 191, 297; CELLBIO 210; ENVIRON 191, 192; EOS 191, 192
     variable credit

Tutorial. Faculty
      BIOLOGY 193T (undergraduate registration only); variable credit

Independent Study for Nonmajors. Faculty
      EOS 195 (undergraduate registration only); variable credit

Graduate Research; Graduate Tutorial. Faculty
      Various departments (graduate registration only); variable credit

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