My objective in selecting courses was to provide myself with a broad background in the biological sciences, while concentrating on my main interests - these being Ecology, Environmental Management and Marine/Aquatic Biology.

The courses I took are listed below. Compulsory courses for the Zoology Major are shown in red; Zoology electives are shown in blue.

Year I

Introductory Botany I & II.

Introductory Chemistry I & II.

Vertebrate & Invertebrate Zoology.

Research, Reporting and Writing.

Language for Analysis.

Year II

Biomolecules and Energy Metabolism
   (Introductory Biochemistry I).

Further Metabolism and Gene Expression
   (Introductory Biochemistry II).

General Ecology.

Entomology.

Parasitism.

Environmental and Metabolic Animal Physiology.

Caribbean Island Ecology.

History of the Caribbean.

Year III

Oceanography and Marine Biology.

Research Project.

Fish Biology.

Tropical Aquaculture.

Coastal Ecosystem Management.

Freshwater Ecology.

Conservation Biology.

On the whole, therefore, I gained knowledge in a number of important fields, notably Ecology and Conservation, as well as the highly applied fields of Island Ecology (which is very relevant to conservation), Tropical Aquaculture and Coastal Ecosystem Management. It was in the latter course that I was first introduced to the use of EIA in environmental management.