Introduction

My name is Rabsa Naseer and I am a junior at Roosevelt High School as well as Central Academy. For my GT Extended Learning Seminar class, I will be completing an online course through edX. The course I will be completing is called Introduction to Animal Behaviour and is offered by Wageningen University & Research.
Through this course, I will learn about the fundamentals of animal behavior, specifically:

• Learning, Cognition, and Development
• Finding Food and Avoiding Predators 
• Mating Systems and Parental Care 
• Living In Groups 

My interest for this course came from my passion for animals. I plan to pursue a career in scientific research, specifically biology/zoology. So, this course could help me gain a basic understanding of animal behavior, a topic I may work with in the future.

This course will help me in the future by giving me some amount of background knowledge on a topic I may pursue in college, which could help me acquire the major of my choice when I apply. The process of completing this course in the duration of this class also requires doing prior research and further research in comparison to the completed course. That will help me learn how to synthesize and compare information on the same topic from different sources. And, as with most online courses, this course will have a weekly schedule which I will have to follow in order to pass, which will help my time management skills.