Tentative Syllabus

Week	Day	Topics	Assignments Due	Reading
1	Wed Apr 2	What is Science? Variation in the real world Topics for exploration (discussion)	.	.
.	Sat Apr 5	Data Collection, sampling theory and practice (field exercise) Seminar on readings Intro to Excel: data entry; graphs; measures of central tendency Intro to hypothesis testing — Statistical overview Form project groups Potluck	Pre-Assessment	Ehrlich, Ch 1& 2 Handouts: Power line
2	Wed Apr 9	How things work: Size and scale Probability Seminar on readings	Project group list	Ehrlich, Ch 3 & 4 Handout: Haldane
3	Wed Apr 16	How things work: Size and scale Why aren't trees taller? (biomechanics, hydraulic architecture, carbon balance) Normal distribution, standard deviation, z-scores Seminar on readings	.	Ehrlich, Ch 5 - 7
.	Sat Apr19	• Why aren't trees taller? (biomechanics, hydraulic architecture, carbon balance) Normal distribution, standard deviation, z-scores Seminar on reading	.	Ehrlich, Ch 8
4	Wed Apr 23	How do things work: bouyancy Probability distributions Seminar on readings	First draft of project Stats p. 38 #3-5	Ehrlich, Ch 9 - 11 Stats ch.1:20-39
5	Wed Apr 30	Fifth week check in confidence intervals Seminar on readings	.	Sagan, Part A Handout: Conceptual Change Stats ch.2:40-56
.	Sat May 3	Midterm Assessment confidence intervals Seminar on reading	Stats p. 76 #4	Sagan, Part B Stats ch.2:63-76
6	Wed May7	Liberal Arts Forum	Stats p. 101 #1-3	Sagan, Part C Stats ch.3
7	Wed May14	Hypothesis testing; differences between means Human morphometrics and assortative mating - intro Seminar on readings	Stats p. 125 #1&5	Sagan, Part D Stats ch.4:116-126
.	Sat May 17	Correlation Human morphometrics and assortative mating - data analysis Seminar on reading	Second draft of project Stats p.150 #1-3	Mayr, Ch. 1 and 2 Stats ch.5
8	Wed May 21	Seeing is believing, right? Regression Seminar on readings		Mayr, Ch. 4 Stats. ch.7:181-195
9	Wed May 28	randomness Contingency tables Flag decals and SUVs - intro Seminar on readings	Stats p.206 #1-5	Mayr, Ch. 6, 7, and 8 Stats ch.7:196-207
.	Sat May 31	Presentations Chi squared Flag decals and SUVs - data analysis Seminar on reading	Stats p.225 #1-4	Mayr, Ch 11 and 12 Stats ch.8
10	Wed Jun 4	Presentations (if any) Potluck Self evaluation draft — sign up for eval conference	Final version of Project report	.
11	Evaluation Week: June 7 — June 12