| PBIO103 PLANTS & PEOPLE K.J.BROWN - WINTER'05 | |||||
| Week | Lecture | Date | Topic | Readings | Other |
| 1 | 1 | 3-Jan |
Course mechanics, student survey |
n/a | |
| 2 | 4-Jan | What in the Linnaeus!? | ch 3 | ||
| 3 | 5-Jan | Plants and People | ch 2 | Film: Broken Limbs: Apples, Agriculture, and the New American Farmer | |
| 2 | 4 | 10-Jan | (Plant) parts is parts | ch 12, p18-31 | |
| 5 | 11-Jan | Useful stems | ch 13 | ||
| 6 | 12-Jan |
types of ROOTS (an FYI page) |
ch 14 | Global Studies Showcase, Featuring Dr. Harvey Ballard | |
| 3 | 7 | 17-Jan |
MLK day No class today |
Check out the National Civil Rights Museum | |
| 8 | 18-Jan | ch 21 | |||
| 9 | 19-Jan |
Grains - not just for breakfast (or beer) anymore |
p 88; Book section 2.4; p.80-86 in-class notes |
paper
critique due Guest speaker |
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| 4 | 10 | 24-Jan | EXAM#1, covers 1st 9 lectures | Exam1 STUDY GUIDE | |
| 11 | 25-Jan | Guest lecture from Mac Burgess, your TA: "All the Brassica you can eat" | (see notes at right) | ||
| 12 | 26-Jan | 2° plant products - medicines & recreation |
Cannabis conundrum reading |
2° plant products = plants fighting back - herbs, spices, oils, gels | |
| 5 | 13 | 31-Jan | Strange bedfellows: fungi and algae | online notes | |
| 14 | 1-Feb |
From foraging to farming KJB notes |
READ Ch2, sections 2.1, 2.3, 2.3 |
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| 15 | 2-Feb | GATTACA |
p. 107, 108 |
"propaganda film #1": The Future of Food
You have to attend class on 2 Feb and read the BBC article to do the BB discussion... |
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| start Disc#1 on Sunday, it ends Tues @9pm | |||||
| 6 | 16 | 7-Feb | Plant breeding, Genetic engineering |
some items from ch 17 and read Ch18 |
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| 17 | 8-Feb | "propaganda film #2": "History's Harvest - Where Food comes From" | Fill out and be ready to turn in your Film Review Sheet | finish BB discussion #1 by 9pm TUES | |
| 18 | 9-Feb | graded in-class exercise | in-class discussion/debate on GM plants | ||
| 7 | 19 | 14-Feb | plants and modern human culture. Sugar and Spice: The American Sweet Tooth | Notes online | |
| 20 | 15-Feb | plants and modern human culture. Part 2 Plants at the Root of Colonial Power: Then and Now |
Notes online |
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| 21 | 16-Feb |
exam#2, covers lectures 10-18 |
exam will be first 1/2 of class, lecture the last half. |
Happy Birthday Kyoto Protocol!: Birthday cake and short lecture @430 in room 104 Porter Hall... | |
| 8 | 22 | 21-Feb | Plant Fibers - history, hemp and NAFTA | online | |
| 23 | 22-Feb | Plants as Time Travelers = fossils! | online | ||
| 24 | 23-Feb |
Fast Foods - culture and nutrition: Diet and Agricultural choices NEW USDA nutritional guide |
online |
soy demo! Stay after for an optional potluck (meaning you have to bring something to share), and a free screening of "Super Size Me" |
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| 9 | 25 | 28-Feb | Americans' love of fossil fuels and a history of atmospheric CO2 | online |
Take-home quiz#2 DUE! Do you live in a dorm or greek house? Get calculation help HERE |
| 26 | 1-Mar | an ecology primer | ch 23 FROM YOUR TEXTBOOK | ||
| 27 | 2-Mar | Virtual Road Trip: Ecosystems and the funky plants that live in them... | online | NOVA Film: World in the Balance | |
| start Disc#2 on Sunday, it ends Tues @4pm | |||||
| 10 | 28 | 7-Mar | Plants & human sustainability | ch 30 FROM YOUR TEXTBOOK | |
| 29 | 8-Mar | Case studies: human impacts the role of invasive plants and the people who keep moving them around | notes here courtesy of Deah Lieurance | finish BB discussion #2, | |
| 30 | 9-Mar | Course wrap-up and course evaluation | final exam review to be given out in class on this date | do (informal) in-class discussion on BB#2 | |
| FINAL EXAM | Tuesday, March 15, at 12:20 p.m. - 104 Porter | FINAL EXAM (#3) covers lectures 19-29 | |||
last modified by KJB 7 march 1428 hrs