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Jim Brown is very active in teaching, especially at the graduate level. In addition to the formal courses listed below, he is involved in many less structured activities. He supervises many students, including some undergraduates, doing independent study and Honors, Masters, and Doctoral thesis research.
Formal courses taught on a fairly regular basis include:
Community Ecology (Biol. 511) an elective graduate core course normally taught every fall semester. This course attempts to survey the major themes in the conceptual and empirical development of community ecology, especially over the last 40 years. Topics covered include competition, predation (including herbovory, parasitism, and disease), mutualism, indirect interactions, food webs, community structure and assembly rules... (click here)
Biogeography (Biol. 494) is normally taught during the spring semester. it is intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. A knowledge of basic biology is assumed, and some background in ecology, evolutionary biology, and geography is desireable but not essential. The course uses the textbook Biogeography (Brown and Lomolino, 1998; published by Sinauer). It follows the organization of the text and considers most of the topics. Lectures highlight subjects of particular interest to the instructor, and hopefully to students... (click here)
PIBBS Seminar (Biol. 503) is offered as TIBBS in Fall and SIBBS in Spring on Wednesday afternoons at 3 p.m. Felisa Smith and Jim Brown share faculty responsibilities. The seminar is actually run largely through PIBBS cohorts and . It takes up a wide variety of topics. HHMI supported scholars are expected to attend...
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