Course Offerings

Academic Program

 

Students will enroll in one of two 3-unit courses.  The courses are taught by John P. Waggoner Ph.D., Professor of Biology at Loyola Marymount University.  Through 12 trips since 1984, John Waggoner has spent over 2 ½  years in eastern and southern Africa.  He teaches a Biology of Mammals course at LMU.  The emphases in the Africa Biology Program are on students achieving an understanding of the fascinating and different patterns of social structure in a number of species of commonly seen African mammals, and, in the field, being able to identify not only the animal species but also specific behaviors which illustrate social systems.  The more common and spectacular bird species will be emphasized, as well as the associations between habitat type and fauna in Southern Africa.

 

 

Course Offerings:

 

 

BIOL 265: The Biology of African Wildlife

John Waggoner, Ph.D. 

Prerequisites: MATH 100 or 101, or placement into MATH 111 or higher.  Study of ecological, behavioral and life history characteristics of selected African animals.  Includes a two-week study trip to eastern or southern African countries.  This course fulfills one Mathematics, Science and Technology course requirement. Biology majors take BIOL 332.

 

 

 

BIOL 332: The Biology of African Wildlife

John Waggoner, Ph.D.

Prerequisites: One year of college biology.  For details see BIOL 265.  Intended for Biology majors: non-science majors should take BIOL 265.  This course fulfills one upper division course requirement in Biology at LMU.