This course is a theme-based class, including general morphology, feeding, reproduction, and hearing/communication of Cetacea (whales/dolphins) and paper discussion on recent discoveries. Besides providing basic information, students will be assigned to read some books or scientific papers for discussion in seminar classes. The final goal of this class is to help students understand how Cetacea successfully evolved into the aquatic environment from the terrestrial setting, and how research tasks have been approached.

本課程是採用主題式教學，包含了鯨豚形態、攝食、生殖、聽覺、溝通的基本理論介紹，以及最新研究成果的討論。這課程將會帶領學生閱讀一些相關的書籍和討論最新發表的研究論文，讓學生們能夠更清楚地瞭解鯨豚如何能夠成功的從陸地一路成功的演化進入水域環境 以及相關研究工作如何執行。