This spring, A&E majors can take care of an upper-level departmental elective with a unique opportunity to spend Maymester continuing to study with the A&E department. Please contact either of the professors listed below as soon as possible if you are interested.
A Maymester class, Bottomland Hardwood Ecology, is being proposed by Prof. Emmet Miller and Dr. Michael Nicodemus. This class will begin May 12 with background, readings and discussion(expectations, etc.) prior to leaving for East Texas on Friday the 15th. We will stay in homes the first weekend in and around Canton, Texas. Monday morning early we will depart for Streetman, Texas, to work with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and their joint venture with Tarrent Water District on a 2000 acre wetland and bottomland along the Trinity River. Water conservation and filtration, wildlife habitat, hardwood ecology, etc. will be discussed. We will be camping out that week in various state parks, visiting the Nachadoches Plant Material Center, the northern portion of the Big Thicket and a couple of other venues. We plan to return to Abilene on the 22nd. Wrap up and presentations will be made in class on the 26-27th.
This class will count as an upper level elective within the department. It WILL NOT count as a Biology elective.
There will be a travel fee of $100 to cover food and travel expenses.
Prerequesites are successful completion of BIOL 112/114 and 113/115.
Registration begins Feb. 25th.
Any questions, direct them to Prof. Miller or Dr. Nicodemus
