{"id":21,"date":"2014-11-07T15:33:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T15:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.belden.biol.vt.edu\/?p=21"},"modified":"2019-12-09T18:50:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T18:50:30","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>I teach several courses at Virginia Tech:<\/p>\n<p>(1) <strong>Plants and Civilization\u2013 BIOL 1064 (Pathways)<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belden.biol.vt.edu\/?attachment_id=195\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-195\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-195 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/belden.wp.prod.es.cloud.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Pawpaw-300x214.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Pawpaw-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Pawpaw-768x549.png 768w, https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Pawpaw-1024x732.png 1024w, https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Pawpaw-1280x914.png 1280w, https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Pawpaw.png 1341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pawpaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Plants have been an integral part of human history.\u00a0 Beginning with basic plant biology, this course explores the links between plants and humans, and the critical roles that plants play in our lives.\u00a0 We explore the major groups of plants that provide food, drugs, textiles and other products, and touch on issues of biodiversity loss, climate change, nutrition and addiction.<\/p>\n<p>Textbook: None<br \/>\nNext taught: Fall 2020<\/p>\n<p><strong>(2)<\/strong> <strong>EEB Senior Seminar\u2013 BIOL 4594<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a senior-level course centered around the Ecology, Evolution and Behavior seminar series that brings approximately 12 biologists from around the nation to Virginia Tech to give research seminars.\u00a0 The seminars serve as a stimulus for reviewing and synthesizing the broad range of information that has been accumulated over the course of completing the undergraduate biology curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>Textbook: None<br \/>\nNext taught: Fall 2020<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/belden.wp.prod.es.cloud.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2014_4984_AEEB_syllabus.pdf\">Sample syllabus<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>(3) Work\/Life Balance in Academia\u2013 BIOL 5174<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a discussion-based graduate seminar addressing the challenges we face as academics trying to maintain balance between our professional and personal lives. The focus is on developing a tool box of strategies that can help provide concrete solutions and options for addressing some of these challenges<\/p>\n<p>Textbook: None<br \/>\nNext taught: Maybe Spring 2021<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/belden.wp.prod.es.cloud.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2012-SYLLABUS-work-life-balance.pdf\">Sample syllabus<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/belden.wp.prod.es.cloud.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Teachingphoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75\" src=\"https:\/\/belden.wp.prod.es.cloud.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Teachingphoto.jpg\" alt=\"Teachingphoto\" width=\"785\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Teachingphoto.jpg 785w, https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Teachingphoto-300x70.jpg 300w, https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Teachingphoto-768x180.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I teach several courses at Virginia Tech: (1) Plants and Civilization\u2013 BIOL 1064 (Pathways) Plants have been an integral part of human history.\u00a0 Beginning with basic plant biology, this course explores the links between plants and humans, and the critical roles that plants play in our lives.\u00a0 We explore the major groups of plants that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belden.biol.vt.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}