为期三周半的课程 街区平面图 enables our OBE faculty to design field/lab classes and research opportunities that are not possible in traditional school settings. 在这种情况下, we create active learning environments that value all voices and promote diversity and inclusion in the biological sciences.

实验课程: Our diversity of approaches to studying the structure and function of organisms manifests in a set of lab-intensive courses that provide substantive research opportunities for our students. OBE values the importance of lab skills in an integrative context and courses such as molecular ecology, 群体遗传学, 比较动物生理学, 生物地理学让学生接触到一系列的实验技能. 分子和生理技术, 以及计算方法, 是作为师生合作的体验来教学的吗, 为未来的专业生物学提供技能.

领域的课程: Our exceptional location is adjacent to rich and diverse ecosystems situated at the range limits of many species of plants and animals. 在东西方向, 海拔从大约6,000到14以上,在派克峰1000英尺的高处, 从而形成了横跨平原的马赛克生态系统, forests, and tundra; in this wondrous mosaic, 我们非常重视嵌入在景观中的土著历史. Many classes take day-long, overnight or multi-day trips to explore sites near and far. 其中很多都是当地的一日游, but some of these are camping trips; we also utilize the CC Cabin in the montane pine forests of the Pikes Peak foothills an hour from campus as well as the CC Baca Campus in the San Luis Valley three hours to the southwest. 我们还定期提供到伯利兹的长时间实地课程! In all these field excursions we strive to accommodate students with a range of field experience levels.

小班授课: 科罗拉多大学 limits class sizes to a maximum of 25 students; most field and lab courses have even smaller sizes. This allows each student to receive individual attention and to do investigative projects even in their first biology class.

比较动物生理学:12名学生

研究机会: Our faculty have active and diverse ongoing research and can also help students develop their own project, e.g. students can receive credit for as many as two mentored research blocks with a professor. We encourage and financially support collaborative student-faculty research projects. These opportunities provide an excellent experience for students interested in graduate school or those planning on becoming part of a research team upon graduation. Our paid research experiences often culminate in publications for students as well as presentations at both regional and national scientific meetings.

Diversity & Inclusion

在我们部门, 我们相信每个人都是受欢迎的, and we aim to create learning environments that support and honor students of all ethnicities, genders, identities, abilities, creeds, 社会经济背景. 在理想的世界里, science would be objective; however, much of science is subjective and is historically built on a small subset of privileged voices. 在我们的课堂上, our faculty believe integrating a diverse set of experiences is central to the learning process as well as a more comprehensive understanding of science. Thus, we strive to amplify a mix of voices — certainly from every student as well as researchers from diverse backgrounds. 歧视是不能容忍的, 问责制对包容性学习环境至关重要. We are deeply committed to actively maintaining learning environments free from discrimination that support a diversity of thoughts, 视角, 和经验.

土地确认

我们认识到这点, in Colorado, we learn, teach, 居住在阿帕奇人祖居地或附近, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, Pueblo, Shoshone, 和乌特部落国家. We at 科罗拉多大学 are specifically situated in the traditional territories of the Southern Ute Nation, 犹特山犹特部落, 和北方犹特人. We have a responsibility to acknowledge our indigenous connections — as well as the histories of dispossession and forced removal upon which this institution was founded. 没有这些土著人民的牺牲, we would not have the opportunity to pursue knowledge and experiential learning at 科罗拉多大学.

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未来的学生

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