Students will become knowledgeable about the current classification of insects
to the subordinal or superfamilial level for most insect taxa.  Students will
have the ability to sight-identify common families of insects from the
southeastern U.S. at the familial level.  They will have knowledge of the
taxonomic literature and research collections permitting them to make accurate
identifications on their own.  Students will know the basics of taxonomic
theory and practice as is needed to understand the classification of insects
for entomologically oriented research studies.

1.	The Science of Taxonomy
2.	Origin of Arthropoda
3.	Arthropodan diversity
4.	Introduction to Phylogenetics
5.	Hexapoda (Protura, Collembola, Diplura, Insecta)
6.	Post-Darwinian Philosophies of Taxonomy
7.	Basal Insecta (Microcoryphia, Thysanura, Ephemeroptera, 
Odonata)
8.	Taxonomy of Taxonomic Literature
9.	Basal Neoptera I (Plecoptera, Dermaptera, 
Grylloblattodea, Mantophasmatodea)
10.	Basal Neoptera II (Embiidina, Phasmatodea, Orthoptera, 
Zoraptera)
11.	Basal Neoptera III, Dictyoptera (Mantodea, Blattodea, 
Isoptera)
12.	Paraneoptera I (Psocoptera, Phthiraptera, Thysanoptera)
13.	Paraneoptera II (Hemiptera:  Sternorrhyncha & 
Auchenorrhyncha)
14.	Paraneoptera III (Hemiptera:  Coleorrhyncha & 
Heteroptera)
15.	Neuropterida (Neuroptera)
16.	Coleoptera I
17.	Coleoptera II
18.	Strepsiptera and Antliophora I (Mecoptera, Siphonaptera)
19.	Antliophora II (Diptera)
20.	Antliophora III (Diptera cont.)
21.	Amphiesmenoptera I (Trichoptera, Lepidoptera)     
22.	Amphiesmenoptera II (Lepidoptera cont.)
23.	Hymenoptera I	
24.	Hymenoptera II
25.	Holometabola overview
26.	The Code of Zoological Nomenclature
27.	Types of Types 
28. 	Systematics in the future