Tropical Biology (Costa Rica)
- Offered every other year during the January interterm
- Open to any major but of special interest to biology and environmental science majors
- Meets the Common Ground requirement in Cross-Cultural Learning
- Prerequisite: one semester of organismal biology (a lower-level class such as Environmental Science, Botany, Zoology or Animal Behavior)
Features of the Tropical Biology travel course
- Learning about culture and history of Costa Rica
- Exposure to multiple ecosystems: montane rain forest; lowland rain forest; dry forest; marine coastal
- Study of a selected current research area in tropical ecology
- Examination of environmental problems in the tropics, and efforts to solve them