Summer
Term I Description and Course Listings
(May 11 - June 12, 2009)
The Marine Laboratory, set within the natural beauty of the Outer Banks of coastal North Carolina, offers a picturesque residential campus, where learning in small, intimate groups takes place and students have direct access to the area's natural resources while using the latest scientific innovations. Many of the courses include a field studies component.
Eligibility
The summer courses below are open to qualified college undergraduates, graduate
students, and postbaccalaureates. These courses are not open to high school
students.
Enrollment Information
To apply for one of the summer courses listed below, please send a completed
enrollment form. *non-Duke students are required to submit current
transcripts. Duke students are required to submit transcripts only
if they are applying for a summer tuition scholarship. After receipt of
acceptance information, a nonrefundable (but applied to tuition) $150 deposit
is required to hold space in the course.
Course Load
During Summer Term I students are allowed to take only one course. It is
a 5-week session and the majority of courses carry 1.5 course credits
(6 units or semester hours).
Curriculum
To review individual course descriptions, please click on the course registration
number below (e.g., BIOLOGY 150L). For additional information on the faculty,
click on the instructor's name (many faculty have separate pages).
Introductory Marine Biology for non-majors (lecture and
lab course) Reinsel and Welch
Biology 10L EI, NS, STS 1.0 course (4 semester hours)
taught in 2007, 2009, 2011
Physiology of Marine Animals (lecture
& lab course) Forward
BIOLOGY
150L NS, R, W (undergraduate registration);
1.5 course (6 semester hours)
BIOLOGY 253L or ENVIRON
228L (graduate registration); 6 units (6 semester hours)
Biochemistry of Marine Animals (lecture
& lab course). Rittschof
BIOLOGY 155L NS, R, W (undergraduate
registration); 1.5 course (6 semester hours)
BIOLOGY 255L or ENVIRON
229L (graduate registration); 6 units (6 semester hours)
Marine Invertebrate Zoology (lecture
& lab course) Kirby-Smith
BIOLOGY 176AL NS, R (undergraduate
registration); 1.5 course (6 semester hours)
ENVIRON
176AL (undergraduate registration); 1.5 course (6 semester hours)
BIOLOGY 274L or ENVIRON
295L (graduate registration); 6 units (6 semester hours)
Marine CSI - Conservation Forensics in the Marine
Environment (lecture & lab
course) Carlsson
ENVIRON 151L NS, SS, STS, R (undergraduate and graduate registration); 1.0 course (4 semester
hours)
General Physics (lecture & lab course) Evans
PHY 53L.08 NS (undergraduate
registration); 1.0 course (4 semester hours)
Independent Study Faculty
BIOLOGY 191, 297 ; ENVIRON
191, 192 (undergraduate
registration); variable credit
CBI 210 (undergraduate
or graduate registration); variable credit
Graduate Research; Graduate Tutorial. Faculty
Various departments (graduate registration only); variable credit
Last revised: February 15, 2008
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Summer Financial Assistance: (Marine
Lab Summer Tuition Scholarships >, Bookhout
Research Scholarships >, Global
Fellowships in Marine Conservation >)