Animal Behavior

with Dr. Dianne Jedlicka
SCIENCE 3523 001 | 3 credits
Online: January 3 - 16, 2025, Monday – Saturday, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. EST/1:00 - 3:30 p.m. CST

This course will incorporate field observations in the natural environment surrounding Saugatuck, Michigan into the study of animal behavior. Students will formulate and test hypotheses through the acquisition of data in the field.  Topics covered include: classical learning and instinct, reproductive behaviors, and interactions between and within species. Note: LIBSCI 3521:  Animal Behavior is a separate course and may be taken for credit in addition to this one.  NOTE: SAIC Students must have already taken English 1001 & 1005 in order to enroll in this course.

Dr. Dianne Jedlicka teaches numerous Biology courses at SAIC including Animal Behavior, Evolutionary Mammalogy, Ecology (Natural History), and Human Anatomy and Physiology.  Her primary research has been at the community level of organization focusing on the feeding strategies and predation of tree and ground squirrels based on their functional morphology. Observational data collected on nocturnal foraging of the eastern cottontail rabbit was published recently. All of these animals are found throughout the Ox-Bow region and offer Dr. Jedlicka’s students’ ample opportunity for scientific observations. Dr. Jedlicka has also presented and published articles on new teaching methods and labs in the college classroom.