PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN BIOLOGY

Catalog description

This course focuses on developing the skills needed for becoming a successful professional biologist. Students actively participate in developing key research and teaching skills including: developing and writing grant proposals and papers, communicating science to the general public and to professional audiences through oral and poster presentations, constructive reviews of the work of others in the context of teaching and as a working professional, and development of teaching materials and assessments. Professional and ethical norms in research and teaching are discussed throughout the course. By the end of the course, students will be able to evaluate alternative career paths within biology and devise development plans appropriate for those careers.