Prof Romi
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"NOTE: ProfRomi goes on sabbatical July 1, 2023 - August 1, 2024 to focus on WRITING!"
Summer Study Abroad - Cultures and Ecologies of Belize - Tentative Summer 2026
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One of the sites we visited - Cotton Tree Chocolate in Toledo, Belize - a company previously owned by Indi chocolate maker Erin Andrews.


courses taught at southwestern university

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Click here for information on THE classes I TEACH about chocolate

COURSES: TOP (SYLLABI), LEVEL, FREQUENCY, LAST TAUGHT, AVERAGE #

Living Systems
Methods  Ecology & Evolution
Conservation Biology
​(no lab)
Ecology
​(with lab)
Inverte Ecology
​(with lab)
Animal Behavior 
(w lab)
Research in Biology
1st Year Biology
2nd level
​(Soph/Jr)
2nd-4th Level
+Env. Studies
2nd-4th Level
+Env. Studies
3rd-4th Level
2nd-4th Level + Animal Studies
All Levels
Fall

Fall or Spring
​
Variable, Usually Fall
3-yr Rotation Usually Spring
3-yr Rotation Usually Spring
3-yr Rotation Usually Spring
Fall & Spring
Fall 2017
Fall 2024
​Spring 2025

Fall 2021 
Spring 2020
Spring 2022
 Spring 2023
Contract
25 - 35 students
12 - 16 students
up to 20 students
16 students
16 students
Variable
3-6 students

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London 2022: Chocolate Covered London/UK


​Special courses taught as part of Southwestern's London Program
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London 2022: Darwin Then & Now Syllabus

In addition to the content-based courses that I offer, I have taught our Capstone Seminar course three times since its inception. In this course, students develop a literature review from a question of their design that they work to fit within our thematic conceptual framework. Students collectively develop this framework in class before diving into the literature focused on a specific question.  The Buttons link to the Syllabi for the Capstone Courses and the images below each button highlight the conceptual frameworks developed by the three cohorts.

Fall 18 Biology Capstone Seminar: Invasion Biology Theme
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Spr 20 Biology Capstone Seminar: Biodiversity Theme
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Spr 21 Biology Capstone Seminar: Stress Theme
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  • Home
  • About
    • CV
    • Publications
    • Travel
  • Chocolate Education
    • Chocolate Credentials
    • Learn What Chocolate Means
    • Commonly Asked ?s
    • Developing Pedagogy
    • SU Chocolate Classes >
      • Chocolate Art Gallery
    • Chocolate Adventures
  • College Teaching
    • Courses
    • Pedagogy
  • Apple Snail Research
    • Undergraduate Lab >
      • Lab News
    • Current Projects >
      • Hybridization
      • Phylogeography (UR)
      • eDNA
      • Invasive Species
    • Collaborators