{"id":199,"date":"2020-11-20T21:55:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T21:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/?page_id=199"},"modified":"2026-02-12T15:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:24:19","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Current courses are listed below. Follow the links to University catalogue pages with details. For all University of Alberta palaeontology courses, click <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.ualberta.ca\/catalogue\/course\/paleo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><strong><a id=\"PALEO-400\"><\/a>PALEO 400: Paleontology Field School<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-869\" src=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2022\/03\/Field-School-400-ring.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"398\" \/>Designed by M. Rhodes (2022).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The vertebrate palaeontology field school (PALEO 400) teaches a limited number of undergraduate students the techniques of fossil collection, curation, and analysis. Please note that the course comprises two parts: a field component that occurs in the spring followed by a research project that extends into the fall term.<\/p>\n<p>Example poster from 2022 below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2022\/01\/PALEO-400-poster-2022-220124.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-755 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2022\/01\/PALEO-400-poster-2022-220124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1651\" height=\"1275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>UNDERGRADUATE COURSES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.ualberta.ca\/catalogue\/course\/paleo\/200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PALEO 200: Introduction to Dinosaurs in the Fossil Record<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.ualberta.ca\/catalogue\/course\/paleo\/201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>PALEO 201: Dinosaurs in the Fossil Record<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.ualberta.ca\/catalogue\/course\/paleo\/204\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>PALEO 204: Theropod Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.ualberta.ca\/catalogue\/course\/paleo\/400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>PALEO 400: Paleontology Field School<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.ualberta.ca\/catalogue\/course\/paleo\/419\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>PALEO 419: Paleobiology of the Vertebrates II<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>RESEARCH PROJECTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/biological-sciences\/undergraduate-studies\/research-project-courses\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Research Project Courses (page includes a link to each course)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/biological-sciences\/undergraduate-studies\/research-certificate-in-science.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Research Certificate in Science<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>OTHER COURSES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/admissions-programs\/online-courses\/dino101\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology (Now Open for Registration)\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zNNKx-xf7Yc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/admissions-programs\/online-courses\/dino101\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dino 101: Dinosaur Paleobiology<\/strong><\/a>, a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) also available for University of Alberta course credit. Posted by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC7TheT4tlz2KDgUppvYPrJQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Alberta<\/a><\/strong> on August 6, 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current courses are listed below. Follow the links to University catalogue pages with details. For all University of Alberta palaeontology courses, click here. &nbsp; PALEO 400: Paleontology Field School &nbsp; Designed by M. Rhodes (2022). The vertebrate palaeontology field school (PALEO 400) teaches a limited number of undergraduate students the techniques of fossil collection, curation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-199","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/currie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}