You can receive a grade of A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D or F.
Lecture Grade: 35% Exam 1; 35% Exam 2; 30% Presentation (20 minutes, 15 minute lecture, plus 5 minutes questions/discussion).
Lab/Field Grade: 30% Insect Collection; 10% taxonomic lab exit quizzes; 40% cumulative lab quizzes; 5% Dissection; 15% Lab Practical Exam. Missing the requiredweekend fieldtrip will result in a loss of one letter grade from the Lab/Field portion of the course.
Jan 19 Lecture: Introduction (Ch. 1); Insect
Evolutionary Origins (Ch. 15). |
Jan 26 Lecture: External Anatomy (Ch. 2) and
Integument (Ch. 3). Lab: Insect Orders (Ch. 16), exit quiz (1 pt). |
Feb 2 Local Fieldtrip: Leaf litter
survey. |
Feb 9
Lecture: Sensory and neural systems
and their uses (Ch. 6). Lab: Protura, Collembola, Diplura, Archeognatha,
Thysanura, Ephemeroptera, Odonata (Ch's. 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21), exit quiz (1 pt). |
Feb 16 Local Fieldtrip: Aquatic insect survey. |
Feb 23 Local fieldtrip: General Collecting |
Mar 2 Lecture: Entomophagous Insects (Ch. 11).
Lab: Dermaptera, Plecoptera, Embiidina, Orthoptera, Phasmatodea (Ch's.
26, 27, 28, 29, 30), exit quiz (1 pt). |
Mar 9 Lecture: Forensic Entomology (article
readings) Lab: Cumulative Lab Quiz: Exopterygotes |
Mar 16 Local Fieldtrip: IPM rearing facility. |
Mar 23 Lecture: Insects and Vertebrates (Ch. 12). Lab: Lab: Megaloptera, Raphidioptera, Neuroptera,
Strepsiptera (Ch's. 36, 37, 38, 40), exit quiz (1 pt). |
Mar 30 No Class, Weekend Time Credit |
Apr 6 SPRING BREAK NO CLASS |
Apr 13 Lecture: Population Biology (Ch. 8). Lab: Mecoptera, Diptera,
Siphonaptera, Lepidoptera, Trichoptera (Ch's. 41, 42, 43, 44, 45), exit quiz (1 pt). |
Apr 20 Lecture: Ecological Diversity and Adaptation (Ch. 9). Lab: Hymenoptera
(Ch. 46), exit quiz (1 pt). |
Apr 27 Lecture: Social Insects (Ch. 7). Lab: Cumulative Lab Quiz: Endopterygotes |
May 4 Comprehensive Lab Practical Exam |