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Introduce students to core ecology through key environmental issues such as global warming, pollution, biodiversity, population growth and sustainable agriculture. Taking a distinctive approach, it will start each topic with a real life example and uses this as a springboard to present core theory, while taking care to introduce ecological principles in a logical sequence throughout this course. Students will explore ecological principles and environmental issues in greater depth through mini hand-on field projects, classroom discussion and debates.

This module will introduce students to aspects of current environmental change and its effects on biological systems, including rising carbon-dioxide (CO2) concentrations, climate change abiotic and biotic models, loss of biodiversity, and eutrophication. Topics covered will include the following: climate change, global warming, land-use changes, invasive species, fire, carbon sequestration, carbon mitigation and global ecology. Students will explore prevailing environmental issues in greater depth through mini projects, classroom discussions and debates.

introduce students to field biology, the basic techniques involved, sampling design and basic data gathering and data management. From field practicals, students will experience and encounter tropical environs and habitats, namely coastal, mangrove, primary and secondary forest. A 6 day field course is incorporated and will be conducted in Pulau Tioman, Malaysia. There students, who will be divided into small groups, will conduct 4 mini-projects in 4 separate habitats, under the supervision of experienced field-orientated teaching assistants. This module will involve overseas university students as well as NUS Life Sciences students.

An intensive six-week summer program conducted with the University of Costa Rica. The first two weeks will be spent on campus in San Jose, with lectures and tutorials on comparative paleotropical (Singapore) and neotropical (Costa Rica) terrestrial and marine ecosystems; comparative urban ecology as well as comparative conservation issues and policies. The latter four weeks will be spent at research stations located in the various ecosystems; the cloud forest, neotropical montane forest, tropical Caribbean coastal forest and coastal Pacific ecosystem. Students are exposed to different techniques in field biology and will be trained in forming ecological hypotheses while in the field. Lectures, student projects and student assessments will be carried out at each field site.