SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany Syllabus Spring 2002

SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany Calendar Spring 2002

Date	Tuesday	Thursday	Thursday Quizzes	Date
15 Jan	Introduction	People and plants		17
22	Algae field day	Healing plants	Quiz 01	24
29	Prep	Presentations	Quiz 02	31
05 Feb	Present	Katherine Ewel		07
12	Seedless Vascular Plant Hike	HTML production	Quiz 04	14
19	SVP preparation: Expert groups meet	Food plants	Quiz 05	21
26	Seedless Vascular Plant Presentations	Midterm		28
05 Mar	Gymnosperm field trip to Botanic Garden	Review midterm/Food plant presentations		07
12	Gymnosperm preparation: Expert groups meet	Material culture		14
19	Gymnosperm presentations	Material plant presentations		21
26	Material plant presentation writeups	Holiday		28
02 Apr	Vegetative morphology field work: Leaf Quest	Psychoactive plants lecture		04
09	Vegetative morphology presentation preparation	Psychoactive plant presentations	Quiz 06	11
16	Inflorescences: TBD	Biodiversity, conservation, management		18
23	Fruits: TBD	The ethnobotanical garden	Quiz 10	25
30			Quiz 11	02
07	Liliopsida presentations			09
13	Final: Monday 2:15

Required Textbooks:

Plants, people, and culture: The Science of Ethnobotany. Balick, Michael J.
WH Freeman ($19.95) Barnes&Noble ($19.95) Amazon ($13.96)

A Photographic Atlas for the Botany Laboratory.
Morton ($24.95) Barnes&Noble ($20.95) Amazon ($24.95)

Quizzes are given every Friday that there is not a test. Quizzes may be moved to Wednesday when Friday is a holiday. Items in grey are optional and are covered on a time available basis.

Office hours: Room F105 2:00 P.M. to 4 P.M. MWF or walk-in any time.

Instructor: Dana Lee Ling. Extension 4300. Home: 320-2962.

Seven absences results in withdrawal from the course. A late is one third of an absence. Thus any combination of absences and lates that adds to seven will result in withdrawal. For example, twenty-one lates would result in withdrawal.

No betelnut in class nor on campus except in the cultural huts.
No spitting over the balcony!
No food, drink, gum, or shoes in the laboratory!

Grading policy:
Homework is worth 1 to 3 points.
Quizzes are worth on the order of 5 to 10 points each.
Tests are worth on the order of 20 points.
The midterm is worth roughly 40 points.
The final is worth up to roughly 60 points.
The term as a whole will generate some 200 plus points.
Grading is based on the standard College policy: Obtain 90% of the points or more to obtain an A, 80% to 89% for a B, and so forth.

Instructor email address: dleeling@comfsm.fm
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