BSC 2250C - Field Biology of Florida with Lab

College of Natural Sciences

Credit(s): 3
Contact Hours: 77
Effective Term Spring 2012 (450)

Requisites

(Prerequisite ENC 0025 and
Prerequisite REA 0017 and
Prerequisite MAT 0028) or
(Prerequisite EAP 1695 and
Prerequisite MAT 0028) or
Prerequisite satisfactory score on the SPC Placement Test.

Course Description

This course emphasizes field-laboratory recognition and environmental relationships of the plants and animals of Florida. Lectures will emphasize basic ecological concepts while the laboratory experience will emphasize identification of representative forms of life of the various biotic communities of the Florida Suncoast. Natural and artificial biological communities will be visited. Two lecture hours and one three-hour laboratory weekly. Extensive time will be spent outdoors. Students may be expected to provide their own transportation to off-campus locations.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will demonstrate an understanding of the climatic, edaphic, and biotic factors controlling the natural ecosystems of the State of Florida by:
    1. describing the biogeographical subdivisions referred to as the Biomes of North America, using appropriate terms to explain Succession, Community Dynamics, and the concepts of the vegetation.
    2. describing the basic geology of Florida with emphasis placed on surface geology and kars topography, particularly as it pertains to major Terrestrial, Aquatic, Estuarine, and Marine features.
    3. analyzing selected Florida ecosystems and explaining how they develop and are maintained.
  2. The student will identify characteristics of common native plants and animals found in Florida by:
    1. recognizing their distinctive morphological structures and relating these to existing selective pressures.
    2. describing features of their preferred habitats.
  3. The student will learn to prepare a field notebook, collection, analysis, or other assessment of an existing Florida ecosystem by:
    1. participating and documenting field trips and activities.
  4. The student will evaluate the impact of human activities on natural Florida systems by:
    1. discussing, orally or in writing, historical or modern examples of the benefit or detriment caused by humans to the environment of Florida.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course the student will, with a minimum of 70% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above stated objectives through classroom measures developed by individual course instructors.

History of Changes

Revised 8/9/83 Revised 8/84 DBT 2/86 Effective Session19861 Revised 8/85 DBT 12/15/88 Effective Session 19891 3 YR C&I Review 1993-94 DBT 4/18/95 Effective Session 19951 C&I 10/12/99, DBT 11/16/99, eff 19992. # chg SCNS eff 20001. State change Sess 20011 C&I 11/13/07, BOT 12/17/07, Effective 20072(0390).(3yr2007) Amended prerequisites effective 20112(0450).
C&I Approval: 11/13/2007, BOT Approval: 12/17/2007, Effective Term: Spring 2012 (450)

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