Goal: To
develop an appreciation for interdisciplinary understanding of chemically
mediated interactions among organisms at different scales of organization
from molecules to ecosystems, through lectures, reading, multi-media, discussion
and hands-on research.
Objectives: To develop skills in the following:
• Analytical
thinking.
• Discipline-specific
information acquisition and analysis.
• Communication
and discussion.
• Interaction
among ideas, deductive hypotheses and methods.
• Value of
interdisciplinary synergism (how methods from one discipline can allow another
discipline to ask and develop new questions).
• Hierarchical
and scaling interactions among different levels of organization from molecules
to ecosystems.