• Animal Behavior (BIO 325): A study of the principles and mechanisms of animal behavior. Behavior will be viewed in genetic, ecological, and evolutionary contexts.

• Ecology (BIO 321): Ecological concepts are considered from various prospectives including theoretical predictions, laboratory experiments, observations, field measurements and resource management applications. The course utilizes lectures, discussions, laboratory studies and field investigations.

• Economic Geography (GEO 201): A study of the locations of economic activities, and the costs of raw materials, markets, labor supply, and transportation. Also investigated are relationships among different economic activities, and specific major commercial products from their origins to their consumption.

• Environmental Education (ES 340): Discusses the history, settings, methods and prospects for environmental education. Students examine environmental education curriculum materials and try out various teaching methods. Teaching sessions in various formal and nonformal educational settings will be arranged.

• Environmental Policy andPrograms (ES 319): An examination of environmental policies, policy formation and policy implementation at the community, state, national, and international levels. Programs, both public and private, to protect environmental quality and implement environmental laws and policies are also addressed.

• Ethics and Society (PHIL 150): This course offers a general philosophical introduction to ethics with readings from Aristotle, Kant and Mill. These classical approaches are utilized in the analysis of issues and cases of general relevance and those specifically related to the fields of study represented at Shenandoah University.

• Geology (GEOL 201): An overview of earth materials and processes including plate tectonics, the rock cycle, minerals, weathering, erosion and physiography. Lab and field activities involve map studies, rock and mineral classification, examination of local geologic features, and a van traverse of the southern Appalachians.

• Instrumental Analysis (CHEM 311): Presents modern analytical methods of chemical separation and characterization. The theory and technique of spectrophotometric, radiochemical, electroanalytical and chromatographic methods of analysis are examined.

• Nature Writing in America (ENGL 315): Nature writing in America enjoys a long and rich tradition; it ranges from essays that are purely descriptive to those that become autobiographical and even metaphysical.  Most of the readings in this course are contemporary, although classical 19th-century examples will be examined initially.

• Plant Morphology (BIO 344): A survey of the evolution of plant forms, life cycles, and functions from algae to angiosperms. The relationships between adaptive strategies, such as those for reproduction and dissemination, and the structures that pertain to those strategies will also be examined. In the laboratory and field, students examine plant features useful in identification and classification.
  
  

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