Ryan,
For what it's worth, here are some SLOs I wrote for my ecology course
a few couple of years ago:
Student Learning Outcomes:
1. Students will understand how organisms interact with each other
and their environment.
2. Students will understand how scientists gather data and design
experiments to test ecological hypotheses.
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:14:05 -0500
From: Ryan McEwan <[email protected]>
Subject: General Principles of Ecology for Undergraduates
Ecolog:
I teach a sophomore/junior level general ecology course for undergraduates
in Biology. My university is requiring faculty to develop "Student Learning
Objectives" for all courses- these are suppose to list the core ideas that
the course will deliver. This list has to be brief enough to fit as a small
part of a syllabus- and it has to be clear enough that an inexperienced
undergraduate can grasp. I have ~6 general ecology texts on my shelf, and
have taught the course before, but this seems like a good opportunity to
think broadly about what I am delivering to the students.
I am wondering if there is some universal standard for Ecology. Does ESA
have a list? Does anyone on this listserve know of any good source
material?
Thanks,
Ryan McEwan
Department of Biology
The University of Dayton
300 College Park
Dayton, OH 45469-2320
Lab: http://academic.udayton.edu/ryanmcewan
--
================================
Richard L. Boyce
Director, Environmental Science Program
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Northern Kentucky University
Nunn Drive
Highland Heights, KY 41099 USA
859-572-1407 (tel.)
859-572-5639 (fax)
[email protected]
http://www.nku.edu/~boycer/
=================================
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly
making exciting discoveries." - A.A. Milne
