2024-2025 Catalog

EVSC 350 Extinction

This course explores how extinction has shaped, and is shaping, life on Earth. We will investigate the causes and impacts of mass extinction events and background extinction, and the lessons we can learn from these past events that are applicable to modern extinction concerns. Through a series of paper discussions we will interpret research that has been done on these topics, and develop ideas on how future research on extinction past and present might proceed.

Credits

1

Prerequisite

Students must have successfully passed BIOL 111 AND/OR a 100-level Geology course to enroll in EVSC 350.

Offered

Spring 2023

Instructor

Christine Hall

Notes

This is an upper-level seminar with a field trip that should be capped at 18 (will fit in 2 vans)