Wesleyan’s Orange Judd Hall of Natural Sciences which housed a natural history museum from 1871 to 1957 was one of the first and finest buildings in the United States purpose-built for higher education in the natural sciences. Today, this legacy lives on in classrooms across disciplines, as students and faculty experience a sense of wonder and responsibility to the natural world using our historical specimens.
Partial list of classes conducted using with collections at Wesleyan University:
- ARCP203 The Secrets of Ancient Bones: Discovering Ancient DNA and Archaeology
- ARCP257 Environmental Archaeology
- ARCP258 Archaeometry: How to Science the Heck out of Archaeology
- BIOL235 Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
- ARST131 Drawing I
- E&ES101 Dynamic Earth
- E&ES223 Structural Geology
- E&ES115 Introduction to Planetary Geology
- E&ES160 Life in the Oceans in the Anthropocene and Beyond
- E&ES234 Geobiology
- E&ES235 Geobiology Laboratory
- E&ES213 Mineralogy
- E&ES214 Laboratory Study of Minerals
- E&ES230 Sedimentology
- E&ES231 Sedimentology/Stratigraphy Techniques
- E&ES313 Petrogenesis of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks
- E&ES314 Laboratory Study of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks
- E&ES215 Earth Materials
- E&ES216 Earth Materials Laboratory
- E&ES317 Volcanology
- E&ES111F As the World Turns – Earth History, with Life’s Ups and Downs (FYS)
Cover photo: Artwork by Cole Goco, Class of 2023, made for the JWP Museum. Ink and watercolor, 9″ by 13″. See more of his works on his website.
