BIOL * 3130 – Conservation Biology W (3-0) [0.50]

This course is an introduction to the biological basis for conserving wild, living resources, including freshwater and marine fish, plants and wild life. Topics to be covered include principles of population, community and landscape genetics and ecology relevant to the conservation, restoration and management of endangered species, ecosystems and/or renewable resources, including an introduction to the theory and practice of sustained-yield harvesting. Department of Integrative Biology.


Posted By : Anonymous - WBC student
Posted On : May 24, 2016

Is the textbook recommended by the student? Yes
Did the student enjoy the professor? Yes
Professor : MacDougall

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I have mixed feelings about this course. While I found the prof interesting and easy to listen to in class, the material wasn\'t really organized the best and he would go off on tangents a lot. However, the concepts were almost all ones I had learned about before. Almost half the course is based off of the Nash book which I found interesting but hard to keep up on the readings as they were kind of dry. In the end there weren\'t even any questions from the book on the final exam. Midterm/Exam were okay, but a lot of people found them very difficult because they weren\'t just regurgitating the information from lectures.
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Posted By : Anonymous
Posted On : March 8, 2012

Is the textbook recommended by the student? No
Did the student enjoy the professor? No
Professor : MacDougall

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Course is meh... MacDougall makes it not too hard to pay attention during lecture, but the lecture is more like him discussing things instead of one topic every day its just a machine gun spray of stuff, found it hard to organize notes etc, lecture notes are next to useless Midterm, Essay, Presentation and Final. Midterm was all short answer and not really questions you would expect, found it quite difficult when youre used to mult.choice or specific short answer exams. Seems like its a course that tests your writing ability more than your ability to learn the concepts. Theres easier, more interesting and more appropriately evaluated courses out there as an elective.
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Posted By : Anonymous
Posted On : November 30, -0001

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Very simple course. It covers a lot of information that anyone who is majoring in Ecology or and ENVS should have learned before. It is still interesting, and the prof. is excellent. Some questions on the exams and midterm are tricky, but if you can get a hold of an old copy most of the questions will be the same or very similar.
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