Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Provide the intellectual framework for integration of plant oriented concepts into the domestic and professional lives of students. This course is designed to promote learning about the science of botany through an active learning process. Lectures and laboratory will emphasize Criteria 1 and 3. Student projects and experiments will promote student engagement in and responsibility for learning.
Botany encompasses the principles of biology related to plants.
Principles are those facts and concepts that are common to the understanding of plants. Students will understand the scientific method used to discover knowledge. The course emphasizes Criteria 4 and 7. Botany can only be taught in an interdisciplinary way to emphasize all the international environmental effects on plants and the equally important aspect of society on plants and their effect on society. Global issues like the greenhouse effect, deforestation, and other environmental problems emphasize the importance of botany to every citizen of the earth.