ELS 624 is a field-based practicum to explore distributed leadership roles and responsibilities for monitoring assessments and accountability results to guide decisions about curricular or instructional modifications. Students work closely with school principal and leadership team at a P-12 school to examine specific site issue and provide recommendations for action.
This course introduces legal concerns for public school teachers. It emphasizes legal rights and responsibilities of both teachers and pupils. Course coverage includes an introduction to governance, liability, church and state, instructional issues, student rights, student discipline, student abuse, teacher rights, and teacher discipline.
Study of forces on bodies at rest. Vector algebra; study of force systems; equivalent force systems; distributed forces; internal forces; principles of equilibrium; application to trusses, frames and beams; friction.
A study of stress and strain in deformable solids with application primarily to linear elastic materials: stress and strain transformations; simple tension and compression of axial members; torsion of shafts; bending of beams; combined loading of members; buckling of columns.
Study of the motion of bodies. Kinematics: cartesian and polar coordinate systems; normal and tangential components; translating and rotating reference frames. Kinetics of particles and rigid bodies: laws of motion; work and energy; impulse and momentum.
Overview of the biology of insects. Emphasizes how this enormously abundant and important group of animals has resolved the basic challenges of survival and reproduction. Principles of physiology, behavior, ecology, and evolution are introduced using insects as examples. The roles of both beneficial and detrimental insects will be discussed.
Biology and behavior of insects and other pests attacking livestock, poultry, pets and wildlife. Current control methods are discussed. For students interested in livestock production, farm management, equine management, dairy science, poultry science, and preveterinary medicine, as well as general agriculture.
Special problems for individual students who are capable of pursuing independent investigations in the various areas of entomology. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
Field-based or community-based experience in entomology under supervision of a faculty member. Pass/Fail only.
Molecular genetics is the study of the biochemical basis of heredity and focuses on the structure and expression of DNA at the molecular and cellular level. The course will provide a detailed understanding of the biochemical events involved in genome replication, prokaryotic and eukaryotic transcription, and translation of DNA, as well as RNA processing, recombination and the theoretical underpinnings of genetic engineering.
