NUS Digital library, web2.0 and
shareware contributions to
Preparing Animal
Behaviour lectures

Student Profile
Cross-faculty (enrichment)
195 students
No ‘A’ level biology
70% from Faculty of Arts
16% SDE

Course issues
Appreciate animal behaviour
Avoid anthropomorphisms
Appreciate scientific approach
Not “I feel” but “evidence suggests”
Not biology undergraduates

Lecture profile
LT 26, 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm
2.10pm - Late start
3.00pm, 10 mins - Mid-session break
3.45pm - Prompt end
Not 120 mins but 80 mins

No textbook
Market - mainly geared to biology
students.
Library - a number of books they can
reference.

No textbook
Rapidly evolving field (e.g. lions
and hyaenas)
Journal-based approach has advantages
I provide notes