During this course, students will visit a variety of research and teaching collections on campus, including (but not limited to) the ichthyology, malacology, botanical, fungal, vertebrate animal, and human skeletal collections. Students will gain hands-on experience with research specimens and the metadata associated with them. We will have presentations from guest instructors (e.g., collections managers, curators, directors, and faculty) who work with natural history collections sharing their approaches to curating collections as well as their integration of specimens into their ongoing research projects.