First-Year Opportunity: The Biology of Dog Breeds

This freshman seminar uses the topic of dog behavior and genetics to teach fundamental scientific tools and to engage students in contributing to the building of an online public resource that summarizes the scientific literature on breeds. Our first task is learning to read and dissect primary scientific literature. We parse out the difference between scientific questions, hypotheses, and predictions through a guided case-study exercise. We then apply the experience to outlining primary research articles, identifying the key components of the author's arguments and summarizing the results and implications. The second half of the semester is spent searching the scientific literature, sorting information into the new dog breed resource, and presenting results to peers around the seminar table. Course is for first-year, non-transfer students only.
Course Attributes: FA NSM; AR NSM; AS NSM; FYO

First-Year Opportunity: The Biology of Dog Breeds

BIOLOGY AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES 1770

Section 01