Here is a statement of my teaching philosophy and syllabi for courses I have taught in the past. All documents are provided as PDF files. If you don't already have it, you will need the free Adobe PDF reader available from here.

Teaching philosophy

Here is my most recent statement of my teaching philosophy. [PDF]

Courses taught

University of North Dakota

Bio 571 Advanced Biometry. This graduate course covers more advanced aspects of statistical testing (regression, ANOVA, etc.). Not required but highly encouraged for students with ecological areas of research. Syllabi: Spring 2005, Spring 2007.

Bio 503 Landscape Ecology Seminar. This graduate seminar involved reading current papers in the field of landscape ecology and then student led discussions of the papers. Syllabi: Spring 2005, Spring 2008.

Bio 503 Spatial Scale in Ecology Seminar. This graduate seminar involved reading current papers in the field of spatial scale and ecology and then student led discussions of the papers. Syllabi: Spring 2006.

Bio 503/590 Ecology and Evolution of Wildlife Diseases. I co-taught this graduate level, seminar course with other members of the biology faculty. Syllabi: Fall 2003.

Bio 470 Biometry. This upper-level biostats course is an elective for biology majors but required for fish and wildlife majors at UND. Syllabi: Spring 2004, Spring 2006, Spring 2008.

Bio 332 General Ecology. This introduction to ecology course is required for all biology students at UND. Syllabi: Spring 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Summer 2007, Fall 2007.

Bio 332L General Ecology Laboratory. This optional, 1 credit lab course compliments the General Ecology lecture course. I'm currently overseeing 6 sections of lab. Syllabi: Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007.

Okanagan University College

Biol 357 Introduction to Entomology. This course introduced students to the insects. We covered anatomy, physiology, development and ecology of this diverse group. In the required lab we covered systematics, collecting and preservation techniques, and also conducted behavioral and ecological experiments. Old syllabi: Fall 1998.

Biol 300 Biometrics. This biostats course is required for all biology majors at OUC. This course had a required lab that I also taught. Old syllabi: Fall 1999.

Biol 303 Population Biology . This is an upper level course on population biology. This course had a required seminar where the students would discuss topical papers in population biology. Old syllabi: Spring 1999.

Biol 213 Invertebrate Biology. This is an invertebrate survey course. Old syllabi: Spring 1999.

Biol 121 Biology for Science Majors II. This is the second half of the required introductory course for biology students at OUC. Old syllabi: Spring 1999.

Biol 111 Biology for Science Majors I. This is the first half of the required introductory course for biology students at OUC. Old syllabi: Fall 1998.

Stat 121 Elementary Statistics. This introduction to statistics course was open to all students at OUC. This course had a required lab that I also taught. Old syllabi: Fall 1999.

Carleton University

61.364 Analysis of Ecological Relationships. I co-taught this upper-level, statistics for ecologists course. This course had a required lab which I also taught. Old syllabi: Spring 1998.