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Spring 2017 | GEOG 1403 Section 001: Biogeography of the Global Garden (49350)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Meets With:
- GEOG 1403H Section 003
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, West BankWilley Hall 175
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- The geography of biodiversity and productivity, from conspicuous species to those that cause human disease and economic hardship. The roles played by evolution and extinction, fluxes of energy, water, biochemicals, and dispersal. Experiments demonstrating interactions of managed and unmanaged biotic with the hydrologic cycle, energy budgets, nutrient cycles, the carbon budget, and soil processes.
- Class Notes:
- Geog 1403 lab sections do not meet the first week of classes.
- Class Description:
- Have you ever wondered why northern Minnesota has an abundance of forests while the southwestern portion is composed of mostly grasslands? Why is it that deserts have such a unique array of organisms? Why is there so much biological diversity in tropical rainforests? A wide variety of plants and animals exist on Earth and many different factors control why different places have different communities of species. The geographies of plants and animals constantly change, contributing to the evolving biological diversity of places at both global and local scales. This course examines the spatial and temporal arrangement of plants and animals and the factors that shape these distributions. The course emphasizes the investigation of the linkages between abiotic and biotic systems including the influence of climate, soil, biotic interactions, and landscape configurations on biological diversity. In laboratory sections, students will make observations, and use mapping and computer-based technology to test hypotheses about the distributions and spatial behavior of plants and animals. The exercises will help students to understand (1) how the interactions of organisms with their environment vary geographically, and (2) how factors, such as climates and soils, control biotic distributions.
- Grading:
- 60% Quizzes
30% Laboratory Evaluation
10% Other Evaluation - Exam Format:
- mostly objective and short essay
- Class Format:
- 80% Lecture
20% Discussion - Workload:
- 40 Pages Reading Per Week
3 Exam(s)
10 Homework Assignment(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49350/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 31 October 2013
Spring 2017 | GEOG 1403 Section 002: Biogeography of the Global Garden (49972)
- Instructor(s)
- Julie Santella (TA)
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Tue 08:00AM - 09:55AMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 455
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Course Catalog Description:
- The geography of biodiversity and productivity, from conspicuous species to those that cause human disease and economic hardship. The roles played by evolution and extinction, fluxes of energy, water, biochemicals, and dispersal. Experiments demonstrating interactions of managed and unmanaged biotic with the hydrologic cycle, energy budgets, nutrient cycles, the carbon budget, and soil processes.
- Class Notes:
- Geog 1403 lab sections do not meet the first week of classes.
- Class Description:
- INSTRUCTOR: Associate Professor Kurt Kipfmueller The trees, birds, grasses, fishes, mammals, and smaller organisms of the Earth are distributed in striking geographical patterns. These spatial and temporal differences in the types and diversity of organisms are the result of geographic processes of dispersal as well as the processes of evolution, adaptation, and extinction. Students will explore: (1) how the biological components of global environments create geographically and temporally varied resource patterns; (2) how the connections between the biotic and abiotic components of environmental systems interrelate; (3) how humans and natural processes bring about changes to the physical environment; (4) how to use simple experiments and models to examine biogeographical patterns, and to evaluate the results; and (5) how to describe and explain the role and place of science and scientific methods in modern society. In the laboratory, students will make observations, and use maps and simple simulation models to evaluate the sensitivity of organisms to environmental variables. Students will learn: (1) how the outcomes from the interactions of organisms with their environment vary geographically, and (2) why the outcomes frequently fail to support commonly held assumptions about the climatic controls on biotic distributions.
- Grading:
- 60% Quizzes
40% Other Evaluation - Exam Format:
- mostly objective and short essay
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture
40% Laboratory - Workload:
- 30 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
Other Workload: 7 quizzes - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49972/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 31 October 2013
Spring 2017 | GEOG 1403 Section 003: Biogeography of the Global Garden (49351)
- Instructor(s)
- Emma Bialecki (TA)
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Thu 08:00AM - 09:55AMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 455
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Course Catalog Description:
- The geography of biodiversity and productivity, from conspicuous species to those that cause human disease and economic hardship. The roles played by evolution and extinction, fluxes of energy, water, biochemicals, and dispersal. Experiments demonstrating interactions of managed and unmanaged biotic with the hydrologic cycle, energy budgets, nutrient cycles, the carbon budget, and soil processes.
- Class Notes:
- Geog 1403 lab sections do not meet the first week of classes.
- Class Description:
- INSTRUCTOR: Associate Professor Kurt Kipfmueller The trees, birds, grasses, fishes, mammals, and smaller organisms of the Earth are distributed in striking geographical patterns. These spatial and temporal differences in the types and diversity of organisms are the result of geographic processes of dispersal as well as the processes of evolution, adaptation, and extinction. Students will explore: (1) how the biological components of global environments create geographically and temporally varied resource patterns; (2) how the connections between the biotic and abiotic components of environmental systems interrelate; (3) how humans and natural processes bring about changes to the physical environment; (4) how to use simple experiments and models to examine biogeographical patterns, and to evaluate the results; and (5) how to describe and explain the role and place of science and scientific methods in modern society. In the laboratory, students will make observations, and use maps and simple simulation models to evaluate the sensitivity of organisms to environmental variables. Students will learn: (1) how the outcomes from the interactions of organisms with their environment vary geographically, and (2) why the outcomes frequently fail to support commonly held assumptions about the climatic controls on biotic distributions.
- Grading:
- 60% Quizzes
40% Other Evaluation - Exam Format:
- mostly objective and short essay
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture
40% Laboratory - Workload:
- 30 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
Other Workload: 7 quizzes - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49351/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 31 October 2013
Spring 2017 | GEOG 1403 Section 004: Biogeography of the Global Garden (49352)
- Instructor(s)
- Julie Santella (TA)
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Tue 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 455
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Course Catalog Description:
- The geography of biodiversity and productivity, from conspicuous species to those that cause human disease and economic hardship. The roles played by evolution and extinction, fluxes of energy, water, biochemicals, and dispersal. Experiments demonstrating interactions of managed and unmanaged biotic with the hydrologic cycle, energy budgets, nutrient cycles, the carbon budget, and soil processes.
- Class Notes:
- Geog 1403 lab sections do not meet the first week of classes.
- Class Description:
- INSTRUCTOR: Associate Professor Kurt Kipfmueller The trees, birds, grasses, fishes, mammals, and smaller organisms of the Earth are distributed in striking geographical patterns. These spatial and temporal differences in the types and diversity of organisms are the result of geographic processes of dispersal as well as the processes of evolution, adaptation, and extinction. Students will explore: (1) how the biological components of global environments create geographically and temporally varied resource patterns; (2) how the connections between the biotic and abiotic components of environmental systems interrelate; (3) how humans and natural processes bring about changes to the physical environment; (4) how to use simple experiments and models to examine biogeographical patterns, and to evaluate the results; and (5) how to describe and explain the role and place of science and scientific methods in modern society. In the laboratory, students will make observations, and use maps and simple simulation models to evaluate the sensitivity of organisms to environmental variables. Students will learn: (1) how the outcomes from the interactions of organisms with their environment vary geographically, and (2) why the outcomes frequently fail to support commonly held assumptions about the climatic controls on biotic distributions.
- Grading:
- 60% Quizzes
40% Other Evaluation - Exam Format:
- mostly objective and short essay
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture
40% Laboratory - Workload:
- 30 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
Other Workload: 7 quizzes - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49352/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 31 October 2013
Spring 2017 | GEOG 1403 Section 005: Biogeography of the Global Garden (50318)
- Instructor(s)
- Uday Thapa (TA)
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Thu 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 455
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Course Catalog Description:
- The geography of biodiversity and productivity, from conspicuous species to those that cause human disease and economic hardship. The roles played by evolution and extinction, fluxes of energy, water, biochemicals, and dispersal. Experiments demonstrating interactions of managed and unmanaged biotic with the hydrologic cycle, energy budgets, nutrient cycles, the carbon budget, and soil processes.
- Class Notes:
- Geog 1403 lab sections do not meet the first week of classes.
- Class Description:
- INSTRUCTOR: Associate Professor Kurt Kipfmueller The trees, birds, grasses, fishes, mammals, and smaller organisms of the Earth are distributed in striking geographical patterns. These spatial and temporal differences in the types and diversity of organisms are the result of geographic processes of dispersal as well as the processes of evolution, adaptation, and extinction. Students will explore: (1) how the biological components of global environments create geographically and temporally varied resource patterns; (2) how the connections between the biotic and abiotic components of environmental systems interrelate; (3) how humans and natural processes bring about changes to the physical environment; (4) how to use simple experiments and models to examine biogeographical patterns, and to evaluate the results; and (5) how to describe and explain the role and place of science and scientific methods in modern society. In the laboratory, students will make observations, and use maps and simple simulation models to evaluate the sensitivity of organisms to environmental variables. Students will learn: (1) how the outcomes from the interactions of organisms with their environment vary geographically, and (2) why the outcomes frequently fail to support commonly held assumptions about the climatic controls on biotic distributions.
- Grading:
- 60% Quizzes
40% Other Evaluation - Exam Format:
- mostly objective and short essay
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture
40% Laboratory - Workload:
- 30 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
Other Workload: 7 quizzes - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50318/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 31 October 2013
Spring 2017 | GEOG 1403 Section 006: Biogeography of the Global Garden (49353)
- Instructor(s)
- Shannon Werbeach (TA)
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Fri 08:00AM - 09:55AMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 628
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Course Catalog Description:
- The geography of biodiversity and productivity, from conspicuous species to those that cause human disease and economic hardship. The roles played by evolution and extinction, fluxes of energy, water, biochemicals, and dispersal. Experiments demonstrating interactions of managed and unmanaged biotic with the hydrologic cycle, energy budgets, nutrient cycles, the carbon budget, and soil processes.
- Class Notes:
- Geog 1403 lab sections do not meet the first week of classes.
- Class Description:
- INSTRUCTOR: Associate Professor Kurt Kipfmueller The trees, birds, grasses, fishes, mammals, and smaller organisms of the Earth are distributed in striking geographical patterns. These spatial and temporal differences in the types and diversity of organisms are the result of geographic processes of dispersal as well as the processes of evolution, adaptation, and extinction. Students will explore: (1) how the biological components of global environments create geographically and temporally varied resource patterns; (2) how the connections between the biotic and abiotic components of environmental systems interrelate; (3) how humans and natural processes bring about changes to the physical environment; (4) how to use simple experiments and models to examine biogeographical patterns, and to evaluate the results; and (5) how to describe and explain the role and place of science and scientific methods in modern society. In the laboratory, students will make observations, and use maps and simple simulation models to evaluate the sensitivity of organisms to environmental variables. Students will learn: (1) how the outcomes from the interactions of organisms with their environment vary geographically, and (2) why the outcomes frequently fail to support commonly held assumptions about the climatic controls on biotic distributions.
- Grading:
- 60% Quizzes
40% Other Evaluation - Exam Format:
- mostly objective and short essay
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture
40% Laboratory - Workload:
- 30 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
Other Workload: 7 quizzes - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49353/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 31 October 2013
Spring 2017 | GEOG 1403 Section 007: Biogeography of the Global Garden (52064)
- Instructor(s)
- Liam Martin (TA)
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Wed 04:00PM - 05:55PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 628
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Course Catalog Description:
- The geography of biodiversity and productivity, from conspicuous species to those that cause human disease and economic hardship. The roles played by evolution and extinction, fluxes of energy, water, biochemicals, and dispersal. Experiments demonstrating interactions of managed and unmanaged biotic with the hydrologic cycle, energy budgets, nutrient cycles, the carbon budget, and soil processes.
- Class Notes:
- Geog 1403 lab sections do not meet the first week of classes.
- Class Description:
- INSTRUCTOR: Associate Professor Kurt Kipfmueller The trees, birds, grasses, fishes, mammals, and smaller organisms of the Earth are distributed in striking geographical patterns. These spatial and temporal differences in the types and diversity of organisms are the result of geographic processes of dispersal as well as the processes of evolution, adaptation, and extinction. Students will explore: (1) how the biological components of global environments create geographically and temporally varied resource patterns; (2) how the connections between the biotic and abiotic components of environmental systems interrelate; (3) how humans and natural processes bring about changes to the physical environment; (4) how to use simple experiments and models to examine biogeographical patterns, and to evaluate the results; and (5) how to describe and explain the role and place of science and scientific methods in modern society. In the laboratory, students will make observations, and use maps and simple simulation models to evaluate the sensitivity of organisms to environmental variables. Students will learn: (1) how the outcomes from the interactions of organisms with their environment vary geographically, and (2) why the outcomes frequently fail to support commonly held assumptions about the climatic controls on biotic distributions.
- Grading:
- 60% Quizzes
40% Other Evaluation - Exam Format:
- mostly objective and short essay
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture
40% Laboratory - Workload:
- 30 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
Other Workload: 7 quizzes - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52064/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 31 October 2013
Spring 2017 | GEOG 1403 Section 008: Biogeography of the Global Garden (49354)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Mon 07:00PM - 08:55PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 628
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Course Catalog Description:
- The geography of biodiversity and productivity, from conspicuous species to those that cause human disease and economic hardship. The roles played by evolution and extinction, fluxes of energy, water, biochemicals, and dispersal. Experiments demonstrating interactions of managed and unmanaged biotic with the hydrologic cycle, energy budgets, nutrient cycles, the carbon budget, and soil processes.
- Class Notes:
- Geog 1403 lab sections do not meet the first week of classes.
- Class Description:
- INSTRUCTOR: Associate Professor Kurt Kipfmueller The trees, birds, grasses, fishes, mammals, and smaller organisms of the Earth are distributed in striking geographical patterns. These spatial and temporal differences in the types and diversity of organisms are the result of geographic processes of dispersal as well as the processes of evolution, adaptation, and extinction. Students will explore: (1) how the biological components of global environments create geographically and temporally varied resource patterns; (2) how the connections between the biotic and abiotic components of environmental systems interrelate; (3) how humans and natural processes bring about changes to the physical environment; (4) how to use simple experiments and models to examine biogeographical patterns, and to evaluate the results; and (5) how to describe and explain the role and place of science and scientific methods in modern society. In the laboratory, students will make observations, and use maps and simple simulation models to evaluate the sensitivity of organisms to environmental variables. Students will learn: (1) how the outcomes from the interactions of organisms with their environment vary geographically, and (2) why the outcomes frequently fail to support commonly held assumptions about the climatic controls on biotic distributions.
- Grading:
- 60% Quizzes
40% Other Evaluation - Exam Format:
- mostly objective and short essay
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture
40% Laboratory - Workload:
- 30 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
Other Workload: 7 quizzes - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49354/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 31 October 2013
Spring 2017 | GEOG 1403 Section 010: Biogeography of the Global Garden (49355)
- Instructor(s)
- Liam Martin (TA)
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Tue 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 628
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Course Catalog Description:
- The geography of biodiversity and productivity, from conspicuous species to those that cause human disease and economic hardship. The roles played by evolution and extinction, fluxes of energy, water, biochemicals, and dispersal. Experiments demonstrating interactions of managed and unmanaged biotic with the hydrologic cycle, energy budgets, nutrient cycles, the carbon budget, and soil processes.
- Class Notes:
- Geog 1403 lab sections do not meet the first week of classes.
- Class Description:
- INSTRUCTOR: Associate Professor Kurt Kipfmueller The trees, birds, grasses, fishes, mammals, and smaller organisms of the Earth are distributed in striking geographical patterns. These spatial and temporal differences in the types and diversity of organisms are the result of geographic processes of dispersal as well as the processes of evolution, adaptation, and extinction. Students will explore: (1) how the biological components of global environments create geographically and temporally varied resource patterns; (2) how the connections between the biotic and abiotic components of environmental systems interrelate; (3) how humans and natural processes bring about changes to the physical environment; (4) how to use simple experiments and models to examine biogeographical patterns, and to evaluate the results; and (5) how to describe and explain the role and place of science and scientific methods in modern society. In the laboratory, students will make observations, and use maps and simple simulation models to evaluate the sensitivity of organisms to environmental variables. Students will learn: (1) how the outcomes from the interactions of organisms with their environment vary geographically, and (2) why the outcomes frequently fail to support commonly held assumptions about the climatic controls on biotic distributions.
- Grading:
- 60% Quizzes
40% Other Evaluation - Exam Format:
- mostly objective and short essay
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture
40% Laboratory - Workload:
- 30 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
Other Workload: 7 quizzes - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49355/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 31 October 2013
Spring 2017 | GEOG 1403 Section 011: Biogeography of the Global Garden (49356)
- Instructor(s)
- Emma Bialecki (TA)
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Thu 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 628
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Course Catalog Description:
- The geography of biodiversity and productivity, from conspicuous species to those that cause human disease and economic hardship. The roles played by evolution and extinction, fluxes of energy, water, biochemicals, and dispersal. Experiments demonstrating interactions of managed and unmanaged biotic with the hydrologic cycle, energy budgets, nutrient cycles, the carbon budget, and soil processes.
- Class Notes:
- Geog 1403 lab sections do not meet the first week of classes.
- Class Description:
- INSTRUCTOR: Associate Professor Kurt Kipfmueller The trees, birds, grasses, fishes, mammals, and smaller organisms of the Earth are distributed in striking geographical patterns. These spatial and temporal differences in the types and diversity of organisms are the result of geographic processes of dispersal as well as the processes of evolution, adaptation, and extinction. Students will explore: (1) how the biological components of global environments create geographically and temporally varied resource patterns; (2) how the connections between the biotic and abiotic components of environmental systems interrelate; (3) how humans and natural processes bring about changes to the physical environment; (4) how to use simple experiments and models to examine biogeographical patterns, and to evaluate the results; and (5) how to describe and explain the role and place of science and scientific methods in modern society. In the laboratory, students will make observations, and use maps and simple simulation models to evaluate the sensitivity of organisms to environmental variables. Students will learn: (1) how the outcomes from the interactions of organisms with their environment vary geographically, and (2) why the outcomes frequently fail to support commonly held assumptions about the climatic controls on biotic distributions.
- Grading:
- 60% Quizzes
40% Other Evaluation - Exam Format:
- mostly objective and short essay
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture
40% Laboratory - Workload:
- 30 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
Other Workload: 7 quizzes - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49356/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 31 October 2013
Spring 2017 | GEOG 1403 Section 012: Biogeography of the Global Garden (50319)
- Instructor(s)
- Kwame Adovor Tsikudo (TA)
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Mon 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 628
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Course Catalog Description:
- The geography of biodiversity and productivity, from conspicuous species to those that cause human disease and economic hardship. The roles played by evolution and extinction, fluxes of energy, water, biochemicals, and dispersal. Experiments demonstrating interactions of managed and unmanaged biotic with the hydrologic cycle, energy budgets, nutrient cycles, the carbon budget, and soil processes.
- Class Notes:
- Geog 1403 lab sections do not meet the first week of classes.
- Class Description:
- INSTRUCTOR: Associate Professor Kurt Kipfmueller The trees, birds, grasses, fishes, mammals, and smaller organisms of the Earth are distributed in striking geographical patterns. These spatial and temporal differences in the types and diversity of organisms are the result of geographic processes of dispersal as well as the processes of evolution, adaptation, and extinction. Students will explore: (1) how the biological components of global environments create geographically and temporally varied resource patterns; (2) how the connections between the biotic and abiotic components of environmental systems interrelate; (3) how humans and natural processes bring about changes to the physical environment; (4) how to use simple experiments and models to examine biogeographical patterns, and to evaluate the results; and (5) how to describe and explain the role and place of science and scientific methods in modern society. In the laboratory, students will make observations, and use maps and simple simulation models to evaluate the sensitivity of organisms to environmental variables. Students will learn: (1) how the outcomes from the interactions of organisms with their environment vary geographically, and (2) why the outcomes frequently fail to support commonly held assumptions about the climatic controls on biotic distributions.
- Grading:
- 60% Quizzes
40% Other Evaluation - Exam Format:
- mostly objective and short essay
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture
40% Laboratory - Workload:
- 30 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
Other Workload: 7 quizzes - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50319/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 31 October 2013
Spring 2017 | GEOG 1403 Section 013: Biogeography of the Global Garden (50929)
- Instructor(s)
- Shannon Werbeach (TA)
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Fri 08:00AM - 09:55AMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 455
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Course Catalog Description:
- The geography of biodiversity and productivity, from conspicuous species to those that cause human disease and economic hardship. The roles played by evolution and extinction, fluxes of energy, water, biochemicals, and dispersal. Experiments demonstrating interactions of managed and unmanaged biotic with the hydrologic cycle, energy budgets, nutrient cycles, the carbon budget, and soil processes.
- Class Notes:
- Geog 1403 lab sections do not meet the first week of classes.
- Class Description:
- INSTRUCTOR: Associate Professor Kurt Kipfmueller The trees, birds, grasses, fishes, mammals, and smaller organisms of the Earth are distributed in striking geographical patterns. These spatial and temporal differences in the types and diversity of organisms are the result of geographic processes of dispersal as well as the processes of evolution, adaptation, and extinction. Students will explore: (1) how the biological components of global environments create geographically and temporally varied resource patterns; (2) how the connections between the biotic and abiotic components of environmental systems interrelate; (3) how humans and natural processes bring about changes to the physical environment; (4) how to use simple experiments and models to examine biogeographical patterns, and to evaluate the results; and (5) how to describe and explain the role and place of science and scientific methods in modern society. In the laboratory, students will make observations, and use maps and simple simulation models to evaluate the sensitivity of organisms to environmental variables. Students will learn: (1) how the outcomes from the interactions of organisms with their environment vary geographically, and (2) why the outcomes frequently fail to support commonly held assumptions about the climatic controls on biotic distributions.
- Grading:
- 60% Quizzes
40% Other Evaluation - Exam Format:
- mostly objective and short essay
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture
40% Laboratory - Workload:
- 30 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
Other Workload: 7 quizzes - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50929/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 31 October 2013
Spring 2017 | GEOG 1403 Section 014: Biogeography of the Global Garden (50930)
- Instructor(s)
- Shannon Werbeach (TA)
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Fri 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 628
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Course Catalog Description:
- The geography of biodiversity and productivity, from conspicuous species to those that cause human disease and economic hardship. The roles played by evolution and extinction, fluxes of energy, water, biochemicals, and dispersal. Experiments demonstrating interactions of managed and unmanaged biotic with the hydrologic cycle, energy budgets, nutrient cycles, the carbon budget, and soil processes.
- Class Notes:
- Geog 1403 lab sections do not meet the first week of classes.
- Class Description:
- INSTRUCTOR: Associate Professor Kurt Kipfmueller The trees, birds, grasses, fishes, mammals, and smaller organisms of the Earth are distributed in striking geographical patterns. These spatial and temporal differences in the types and diversity of organisms are the result of geographic processes of dispersal as well as the processes of evolution, adaptation, and extinction. Students will explore: (1) how the biological components of global environments create geographically and temporally varied resource patterns; (2) how the connections between the biotic and abiotic components of environmental systems interrelate; (3) how humans and natural processes bring about changes to the physical environment; (4) how to use simple experiments and models to examine biogeographical patterns, and to evaluate the results; and (5) how to describe and explain the role and place of science and scientific methods in modern society. In the laboratory, students will make observations, and use maps and simple simulation models to evaluate the sensitivity of organisms to environmental variables. Students will learn: (1) how the outcomes from the interactions of organisms with their environment vary geographically, and (2) why the outcomes frequently fail to support commonly held assumptions about the climatic controls on biotic distributions.
- Grading:
- 60% Quizzes
40% Other Evaluation - Exam Format:
- mostly objective and short essay
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture
40% Laboratory - Workload:
- 30 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
Other Workload: 7 quizzes - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50930/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 31 October 2013
Spring 2017 | GEOG 1403 Section 015: Biogeography of the Global Garden (50940)
- Instructor(s)
- Elizabeth Schneider (TA)
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Wed 08:00AM - 09:55AMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 628
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Course Catalog Description:
- The geography of biodiversity and productivity, from conspicuous species to those that cause human disease and economic hardship. The roles played by evolution and extinction, fluxes of energy, water, biochemicals, and dispersal. Experiments demonstrating interactions of managed and unmanaged biotic with the hydrologic cycle, energy budgets, nutrient cycles, the carbon budget, and soil processes.
- Class Notes:
- Geog 1403 lab sections do not meet the first week of classes.
- Class Description:
- INSTRUCTOR: Associate Professor Kurt Kipfmueller The trees, birds, grasses, fishes, mammals, and smaller organisms of the Earth are distributed in striking geographical patterns. These spatial and temporal differences in the types and diversity of organisms are the result of geographic processes of dispersal as well as the processes of evolution, adaptation, and extinction. Students will explore: (1) how the biological components of global environments create geographically and temporally varied resource patterns; (2) how the connections between the biotic and abiotic components of environmental systems interrelate; (3) how humans and natural processes bring about changes to the physical environment; (4) how to use simple experiments and models to examine biogeographical patterns, and to evaluate the results; and (5) how to describe and explain the role and place of science and scientific methods in modern society. In the laboratory, students will make observations, and use maps and simple simulation models to evaluate the sensitivity of organisms to environmental variables. Students will learn: (1) how the outcomes from the interactions of organisms with their environment vary geographically, and (2) why the outcomes frequently fail to support commonly held assumptions about the climatic controls on biotic distributions.
- Grading:
- 60% Quizzes
40% Other Evaluation - Exam Format:
- mostly objective and short essay
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture
40% Laboratory - Workload:
- 30 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
Other Workload: 7 quizzes - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50940/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 31 October 2013
Spring 2017 | GEOG 1403 Section 016: Biogeography of the Global Garden (50941)
- Instructor(s)
- Kwame Adovor Tsikudo (TA)
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Tue 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 628
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Course Catalog Description:
- The geography of biodiversity and productivity, from conspicuous species to those that cause human disease and economic hardship. The roles played by evolution and extinction, fluxes of energy, water, biochemicals, and dispersal. Experiments demonstrating interactions of managed and unmanaged biotic with the hydrologic cycle, energy budgets, nutrient cycles, the carbon budget, and soil processes.
- Class Notes:
- Geog 1403 lab sections do not meet the first week of classes.
- Class Description:
- INSTRUCTOR: Associate Professor Kurt Kipfmueller The trees, birds, grasses, fishes, mammals, and smaller organisms of the Earth are distributed in striking geographical patterns. These spatial and temporal differences in the types and diversity of organisms are the result of geographic processes of dispersal as well as the processes of evolution, adaptation, and extinction. Students will explore: (1) how the biological components of global environments create geographically and temporally varied resource patterns; (2) how the connections between the biotic and abiotic components of environmental systems interrelate; (3) how humans and natural processes bring about changes to the physical environment; (4) how to use simple experiments and models to examine biogeographical patterns, and to evaluate the results; and (5) how to describe and explain the role and place of science and scientific methods in modern society. In the laboratory, students will make observations, and use maps and simple simulation models to evaluate the sensitivity of organisms to environmental variables. Students will learn: (1) how the outcomes from the interactions of organisms with their environment vary geographically, and (2) why the outcomes frequently fail to support commonly held assumptions about the climatic controls on biotic distributions.
- Grading:
- 60% Quizzes
40% Other Evaluation - Exam Format:
- mostly objective and short essay
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture
40% Laboratory - Workload:
- 30 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
Other Workload: 7 quizzes - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50941/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 31 October 2013
Spring 2017 | GEOG 1403 Section 018: Biogeography of the Global Garden (50943)
- Instructor(s)
- Uday Thapa (TA)
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Thu 02:30PM - 04:25PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 628
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Course Catalog Description:
- The geography of biodiversity and productivity, from conspicuous species to those that cause human disease and economic hardship. The roles played by evolution and extinction, fluxes of energy, water, biochemicals, and dispersal. Experiments demonstrating interactions of managed and unmanaged biotic with the hydrologic cycle, energy budgets, nutrient cycles, the carbon budget, and soil processes.
- Class Notes:
- Geog 1403 lab sections do not meet the first week of classes.
- Class Description:
- INSTRUCTOR: Associate Professor Kurt Kipfmueller The trees, birds, grasses, fishes, mammals, and smaller organisms of the Earth are distributed in striking geographical patterns. These spatial and temporal differences in the types and diversity of organisms are the result of geographic processes of dispersal as well as the processes of evolution, adaptation, and extinction. Students will explore: (1) how the biological components of global environments create geographically and temporally varied resource patterns; (2) how the connections between the biotic and abiotic components of environmental systems interrelate; (3) how humans and natural processes bring about changes to the physical environment; (4) how to use simple experiments and models to examine biogeographical patterns, and to evaluate the results; and (5) how to describe and explain the role and place of science and scientific methods in modern society. In the laboratory, students will make observations, and use maps and simple simulation models to evaluate the sensitivity of organisms to environmental variables. Students will learn: (1) how the outcomes from the interactions of organisms with their environment vary geographically, and (2) why the outcomes frequently fail to support commonly held assumptions about the climatic controls on biotic distributions.
- Grading:
- 60% Quizzes
40% Other Evaluation - Exam Format:
- mostly objective and short essay
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture
40% Laboratory - Workload:
- 30 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
Other Workload: 7 quizzes - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50943/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 31 October 2013
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