Need a course? Consider IB109, Insects and People, a course that
satisfies
the General Education Natural Science and Technology requirement.
Why take it? In the class, students can learn about locust plagues,
silk and silkworms, honey and wax, praying mantis style kung fu, insect
aphrodisiacs, lice, plague, sacred scarabs, zombie cockroaches, killer
bees, and insects in art, law, music and movies,
among other topics...
For an extra hour of credit, take the lab--activities include
honey-tasting, insect eating, field trips, beeswax candlemaking,
cochineal tie-dyeing and CSI-style maggot hunts...
The instructor for this course has won a few teaching awards--the 2006
Entomological Society of America Distinguished Teaching Award and the
2010 LAS Distinguished Teaching Award, and was also the nominal
inspiration for "Dr. Bambi Berenbaum" of the X-Files episode
"War of the Coprophages" (about alien killer cockroaches).