Date	Botany SC 250 Syllabus: Subject/Event
8/20/01	Attendance and introduction to the course: Muddy when wet Botany office hours: MWF 1500 in F105 or by appointment at other times. Textbooks: Botany for Gardeners, Brian Capon ($17.95).  A Photographic Atlas for the Botany Laboratory, Kent Van de Graff ($20.95).
8/21/01	Dr. Michael J. Balick NYBG
8/22/01	Videography
8/24/01	Filming of cultural plant usages
8/27/01	Kingsdoms/Phylla
8/28/01	URL Lab
8/29/01	Cyanophyta
8/31/01	Test One
9/3/01	Unicellular protista
9/4/01	Cyanophyta, Chlorophyta
9/5/01	Multicellular protista
9/7/01	Quiz 2
9/10/01	Algae
9/11/01	HTML I: Producing an alga web page
9/12/01	Fungi
9/14/01	Quiz 3
9/17/01	Bryophyta
9/18/01	Fungi, Bryophyta, Psilophyta, Lycophyta, Pterophyta
9/19/01	Psilophyta
9/21/01	Lycophyta Quiz 4
9/24/01	Pterophyta
9/25/01	Plants of Palikir/Vegetative character
9/26/01	Cycadophyta
9/28/01	Gingkophyta Quiz 5
10/1/01	Coniferophyta
10/2/01	Lab practical examination
10/3/01	Anthophyta
10/5/01	Midterm examination
10/8/01	Review Midterm
10/9/01	Inflorescences
10/10/01	Growth:Cells and Seeds
10/12/01	Quiz 6
10/15/01	Growth:Roots and shoots
10/16/01	Pohnpei Botanical Garden
10/17/01	Organization: Stems
10/19/01	Quiz 7
10/22/01	Organization: Roots and leaves
10/23/01	Option: Mountain Alternative: Botanic Garden Followup Lab
10/24/01	United Nations Day
10/26/01	Quiz 8
10/27/01	Photography Saturday
10/29/01	Adaptation: Protection
10/30/01	Invasive species
10/31/01	Test Two
11/2/01	FSM Independence Day
11/5/01	Review Test Two
11/6/01	Invasive species walk and talk
11/7/01	Adaptation: Needs
11/9/01	Quiz 9
11/10/01	Photography Saturday
11/12/01	Functions: Growth and Development
11/13/01	Soil test laboratory
11/14/01	Functions: Waters, minerals
11/16/01	Quiz 10
11/17/01	Photography Saturday
11/19/01
11/20/01
11/21/01
11/23/01	Quiz 11
11/24/01	Optional photography Saturday
11/26/01
11/27/01
11/28/01
11/30/01	Quiz 12
12/3/01
12/4/01	Laboratory final examination
12/5/01
12/7/01	Quiz 13
12/10/01
12/11/01	Last Day of Instruction
12/12/01	4:20 P.M. Final Examination
12/21/01	Midyear graduation

• 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.
• Statistics office hours: Room F105 10:00 A.M. to 11:30 A.M. MWF or walk-in any time.
  Instructor: Dana Lee Ling. 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 upstairs balcony!
• Grading policy:
  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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