{"id":17,"date":"2014-02-28T22:17:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T22:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/whitfield\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2021-01-12T22:23:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T22:23:40","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/whitfield\/teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Currently, Dr. Whitfield teaches 2 regular courses:\u00a0 IB 468 &#8211; Classification and Evolutionary History of Insects (Fall of odd years), and IB 467 &#8211; Principles of Systematics\u00a0 (Fall of even years, co-taught with Dr. Milton Tan of the Illinois Natural History Survey).\u00a0 The first course covers the orders and common families of insects, and involves field collecting and preparation of a synoptic collection. The second course consists of lectures about the basics of biological systematics, combined with a lab and project using current phylogenetics and phylogenomics software. Some semesters, he is also in charge of IB 496 &#8211; Advanced Systematics, or IB 526 &#8211; Current Topics in Systematics.\u00a0 For details on these courses, please consult the Integrative Biology course pages.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently, Dr. Whitfield teaches 2 regular courses:\u00a0 IB 468 &#8211; Classification and Evolutionary History of Insects (Fall of odd years), and IB 467 &#8211; Principles of Systematics\u00a0 (Fall of even years, co-taught with Dr. Milton Tan of the Illinois Natural History Survey).\u00a0 The first course covers the orders and common families of insects, and involves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/whitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/whitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/whitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/whitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/whitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/whitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/whitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/whitfield\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}