INQ-250BI | Insects: Living in their World

Full Title: Insects: Living in their World

Topic Description:

The influence of insects on human affairs is arguably unrivaled by any other animal group. From the foods we eat to the diseases we contract, insects have long had a role in the affairs of human history. In this course students will explore the complex, and often uncomfortable, relationships between insects and humans. The class will broaden students’ understanding of how the biological diversity of insects has threatened human civilization, but also increased our knowledge of genetics, development, ecology, and evolution. By understanding how insects have, and continue to, shaped our society we can enter a perspective of how insects are less a part of our world as we are a part of theirs.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: November 2014