Sustainability Course Repository

This course will provide a basic understanding of how medications treat human diseases. First, you will be Introductionduced to the basic tenets of pharmacology and how the complex interplay between physiology and biochemistry impacts the body’s processing of the drug and, consequently, the drug’s activity. Here, we will discuss what a drug is, and the pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic principles that affect drug activity. Next, we will discuss several areas of pharmacotherapy including autono...

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Humoral and cellular immune systems; clonal selection theory; antigen and antibody properties and interactions, immunological diversity; autoimmune diseases; AIDS; cancer immunology; monoclonal antibodies and immunotherapy. Three lecture hours and one discussion per week.

Read more about BIOL-4150 : Fundamentals of Immunology

Advanced, intense field course building on previous ecology, biology, and marine courses focusing on research methods, experimental design, and data analysis in marine ecology. Extensive field work and experimentation in multiple marine habitats, and examination of primary research literature.

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Advanced, intense field course building on previous ecology and biology courses focusing on research methods, experimental design, and data analysis in forest ecology. Extensive field work and experimentation in multiple freshwater habitats, and examination of primary research literature

Read more about BIOL-4630 : Forest Ecology

Study of critical issues in conservation biology with stresses on urban ecology and human/ecosystem impacts. Independent study lab-based projects will include field work in critical ecosystems.

Read more about BIOL-4650 : Conservation Biology

Wildlife ecology is a field course that focuses on the interactions of animal species with each other and their environments. Exercises will emphasize techniques used to monitor the composition and population dynamics of the wildlife fauna of Blakely Island.

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This course examines the policy reasons for various U.S. import and export requirements, tariffs, and international business restrictions. Lectures include discussion of legal issues in international commercial transactions and host country regulations involving the European Community, the Pacific Rim, Canada, and third world countries. In addition, specific sections focus on international corporate, labor, and environmental issues.

Read more about BLAW-5310 : International Law & Business

This course requires application of economic analysis to business issues. Topics includes demand theory , production and cost analysis, markets and pricing, and government policy.

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Students will apply the concepts and tools of project management through a service project. Through the project, students will engage with both the science and art of project management. Topics include project selection, requirements definition, client relations, project scoping, work breakdown structures, estimation, budgeting, scheduling and software, supply management, project team management, resource allocation, time/cost tradeoffs, risk assessment, task coordination, team-building, progres...

Read more about BRMB-5210 : Project Management

This course is the study of formal and informal organizations, the individual, group dynamics, communication, leadership, motivation, and organizational design.

Read more about BRMB-5215 : Organizational Behavior