"Considering both my time in the Nicholas School masters program ('83) and now my return to academia (current PhD sudent), the associations I have developed at the school, including those with students, faculty, and staff, strengthen every aspect of my professional experience—past, current, and future."

--Charlotte Clark, T '79, MEM '83
PhD Candidate

Biology Courses (BIOLOGY)

taught in Beaufort

109. Conservation Biology and Policy
Introduction to the key concepts of ecology and policy relevant to conservation issues at the population to ecosystems level. Focus on the origin and maintenance of biodiversity and conservation applications from both the biology and policy perspectives (for example, endangered species, captive breeding, reserve design, habitat fragmentation, ecosystem restoration/rehabilitation).

Prerequisites: introductory biology; suggested: a policy and/or introductory ecology course.

Instructors: Crowder and Orbach.

One course credit.