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Course Descriptions and Enrollments:
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LEAP - PNB 3895
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LEAP stands for Learning through Experiencing and Applying Principles
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A four semester progressive commitment course aimed at giving first year freshman from underrepresented backgrounds in the biological sciences a LEAP into research. From learning gene theory in a one-unit course their first semester to completing bench work looking at the function and expression of novel genes across animal taxa in the four-unit fourth semester course. Course design, lecturing and implementation.
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ENTOM 103: Discover Insects: A Laboratory Course for Non-Science Majors
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25 students as TA; ~275 students as instructor of record 2016, 2017, 2018, Summer 2020 (virtual), Summer 2021 (virtual) – includes course design and transition to virtual teaching in COVID-19 pandemic
ENTOM 343: General Entomology
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40 students as lecture TA - 2021
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ENTOM 351: Ecological and Integrated Pest Management
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108 students as lecture TA - 2019
ENTOM 539: Taxonomic Entomology
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20 graduate students as lecture and lab TA, 4 lectures delivered - 2020
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IPM 452/552: Pesticides and the Environment
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29 students as lecture TA – 2019