Courses Taught
I teach several Natural Resource courses, including Senior Projects (required of all NR majors) and three courses previously taught through the Entomology Department before its dissolution on July 1, 1995. The links below take you to a description and syllabus for each course.
NR410 | NR675| NR775| NR713/813| NR506| BIOL541| NR747/847|
Insects and Society provides a broad overview of the insects, their evolution, biology, behavior, and importance to humans through their impact on our culture, history, agriculture, and health. It satisfies a Group III(Biological Science) General Education requirement. It is taught each spring semester.
CEOP Projects is designed to provide academic credit to students involved in the Community Environmental Outreach Program. Students may enroll for variable credit in the fall and/or spring semesters (maximum of 4 credit hours), but all grades are assigned in the spring semester upon completion of the CEOP project.
Senior Projects is taught in the fall and spring semester each year. It is restricted to, and required for, Natural Resources seniors. Students are formed into consulting teams to work with client communities to work on environmental projects such as wetlands analyses, natrual resource inventories, interpretative trails development, etc. This is a Writing Intensive course.
NR713/813 - Quantitative Ecology
Quantitative Ecology is taught in alternate years beginning with the fall semester, 1998. This course focuses on quantitative techniques associated with a variety of ecological topics, primarily at the population, community and landscape level, and includes both elementary concepts and advanced topics. A prior course in ecology is required, as well as a general knowledge of math through calculus.
Forest Entomology is designed to provide an overview of insects and their role in the forest landscape for forestry majors, but is open to other majors as well. No prior knowledge of entomology is assumed. The course is scheduled to be taught in alternate years beginning with the the fall semester, 1997. This is a Writing Intensive course.
Since the spring semester 2002, I have been team-teaching the lecture portion of BIOL541, General Ecology, with Dr. Jeb Byer (Zoology), as well as a summer session of the course solo. This coure is a general introduction to ecology and has BIOL411-412 or equivlent courses as a prerequisite.
NR747/847 - Biology through Bugs!
Beginning in the summer of 2004 I will be teaching a new course designed for current and future middle school/secondary school biology teachers that will focus on the use of insects to teach basic biological principals.
For information
Paul C. Johnson
Department of Natural Resources
258 Spaulding Life Sciences Building
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
Phone: (603) 862-1717
FAX: (603) 862-1717
e-Mail: pcj@christa.unh.edu
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