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Biology
"Study nature, not books" was the axiom spoken over a hundred years ago by Alexander Agassiz, a major figure in biological studies in America. The accumulated knowledge deposited in books is, of course, now very important, but the excitement of personal discovery is still indispensable to the learning process. Eckerd College has built its biology program on this premise. Our unique curriculum aims at developing the skills needed for creative investigation of living organisms, their life processes and their interactions with the environment.
The Eckerd College biology faculty includes 10 members with diverse interests and expertise. Our small size has allowed us to maintain close ties between the different subdisciplines of biology. Unlike larger schools that may have separate departments of cell and molecular biology and organismic biology, at Eckerd these are all areas of a single, integrated biology curriculum that produces broadly trained biologists.
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