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| Attempted Murder: Crows in the Humanities & Sciences;� Animal Behavior & Gen Ed Curriculum. |
| Clara Voorhees, Gina Camodeca. D'Youville University, Buffalo, NY, United States |
D’Youville University located in Buffalo, NY, has a General Education curriculum that requires students to take 100 level courses that are designed by faculty from different disciplines in order to create an interdisciplinary experience. In this presentation, we will discuss an interdisciplinary course from the Biology and English department, HUM-189 Attempted Murder: Crows in the Humanities and Sciences. The laboratory portion if this course uses Animal Behavior to engage non-major undergraduates’ students in learning about cognition, behavior, and evolution of corvids. This presentation will focus on three lab experiments used to engage students in meta-cognition, problem-solving, and frustration. Students are given lab activities and tasks based on real experiments carried out with corvids, students are asked to complete these tasks and assessments, then compare their results with the results of the corvids in question. Presented here will be the results from those assessments and student reflections. |