Course Schedule
BOTN 328 - Plants and People - Spring Semester, 2005
Date
Lecture Topic 
Text 
Laboratory
January



18
Intro - Plants and the Biosphere
1-4, 451-458
 Vegetables
20
Vegetative Structure
5-12
 
25
Floral Structure
12-21 
 Flowers
27
Domestication
21-32 
 
February


1
Organizing Diversity - Taxonomy
32-39
 Fruits
3
Origins of the Ethnoflora
40-52 
 
8
 Temperate Gynoecia
53-74
Cushing Library
10
Tropical Gynoecia
75-104
 
15
 Beverages I - Ethanol
332-354
Winery Tour 
17
Beverages II
313-331

22
Lecture Exam I (sample)
 
Major Families I
24
The Grasses I
107-121

March


1
 The Grasses II
 122-135
Lab Practical I
3
The Beans I
136-142
 
8
The Beans II
143-154
Major Families II
10
Fibers I
355-368
 

Spring Break

22
Fibers II/Dyes
368-377
No Lab (Friday = 'Reading Day')
24
Herbals
262-267
 
29
Vegetative Food I
155-178
Wood & Paper
31
 Vegetative Food II
179-191
 
April


5
Lecture Exam II (sample)
 
Field Trip - Flora
7
Spices, Herbs, and Perfumes
192-217 
 
12
Oils and Waxes
218-242
Field Trip-Ethnoflora
14
Wood, Cork, and Bamboo 378-398
19
Hydrogels, Latexes, and Resins
243-261 
Lab Practical II
21
Modern Medicinals
262-285

26
Intoxicating Plants
286-312
Aggie Cusine
28
Ornamentals
399-430

May


3
A changing interface - the Future
457-478
 
11
Final Exam - 8:00 a.m. (in lecture room)
sample
 

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last updated: 15 February 2005