| Date |
Topic |
Tasks |
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Aug 25 Monday |
Course Introduction
Making a Professional Web Site
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Read Salick et al. 2003
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Aug 27 Wednesday |
Building an Ethnobotany Portfolio and CV
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TED Talk: Jimmy Wales
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Aug 29 Friday |
Plants I Know Exercise |
Submit Web Site
Leopold: Ethical Dilemmas (The Land Ethic 201-203)
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Sep 01 Monday |
Labor Day Holiday
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Sep 03 Wednesday |
Transported Landscapes |
Read Sauer 1952 ch 1,
(Crosby 1986)
TED Talk: Yochai Benkler
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Sep 05 Friday |
Make a Landscape Exercise |
Submit CV
Leopold: Ethical Dilemmas (Good Oak 6-18)
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Sep 08
Monday |
Asking Scientific Questions
Forming Hypotheses
|
Read McClatchey 2006, (Ford 1994) |
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Sep 10
Wednesday |
Localization of Global Plants |
Read Sauer 1952 ch 2, Sauer 1952 ch 3,
(Diamond 1997)
TED Talk: Michael Pollan
|
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Sep 12 Friday |
Stereotype Plants Exercise |
Submit Research Hypotheses
Leopold: Ethical Dilemmas (Axe-in-Hand 67-73)
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Sep 15 Monday |
Ethnographic Methods |
Read Alexiades 1996, (Bernard 2002)
|
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Sep 17
Wednesday |
Participant Observation
Discuss Digital Posters
|
Read Spradley 1980 ch 9
TED Talk: Clay Shirky
|
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Sep 19 Friday |
Questionnaire Exercise |
Leopold: Ethical Dilemmas |
|
Sep 22
Monday |
Human Subjects
|
Read Davis & Wagner 2004
|
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Sep 24 Wednesday |
Ethics and Dilemmas
|
Read Posey 1990
TED Talk: Hans Rosling 1
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Sep 26 Friday
Kary Geronilla |
Human Subjects Exercise |
Submit Questionnaire
Leopold: Ethical Dilemmas (A Mighty Fortress 73-77)
|
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Sep 29
Monday |
Voucher Specimens |
Read Cunningham 1996, (Wormersley 1976)
|
| Oct 01Wednesday |
Working with Plants |
Ted Talk: Hans Rosling 2
|
Oct 03 Friday
Orion Rivers |
Herbarium Exercise |
Submit Informed Consent Form
Leopold: Ethical Dilemmas (Thinking Like a Mountain 129-133)
|
Oct 06 Monday
Angelica Piñera |
Folk Taxonomy |
Read Berlin 1992 ch 1
|
Oct 08
Wednesday
Mikioi Wichman |
Traditional Botanical Knowledge |
Read Dupre 1999,
(Zent 2001)
TED Talk: Malcolm Gladwell
|
|
Oct 10 Friday |
Taxonomy Exercise |
Submit Digital
Poster
Leopold: Ethical Dilemmas (Home Range 78-81) |
|
Oct 13
Monday |
Home Gardens, Home Garden Surveys |
Read Wester & Yongvanit 1995, (Peters et al. 1989,
Nazarea 1998) |
Oct 15 Wednesday
That Nam Tran Ton |
Markets
|
Read Nguyen 2005
TED Talk:
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Oct 17 Friday
Chris Chow |
Market or Garden Exercise |
Leopold: Ethical Dilemmas (Prairie Birthday 44-50) |
Oct 20 Monday
Safia Slater |
Diet Inventory |
Read Wester & Chuensanguansat 1994,
(Martin 2003)
|
|
Oct 22 Wednesday |
Human Activity Studies |
Read McClatchey et al. 2004
TED Talk: Mark Bittman
|
|
Oct 24 Friday |
Diet Inventory Exercise |
Submit Voucher Specimens
Leopold: Ethical Dilemmas (Cheat Takes Over 154-158)
|
Oct 27 Monday
Ben Wadman |
Psychoactive Plants |
Read... |
Oct 29 Wednesday
Lan Truong |
Plants, Religion, and Globalization |
TED Talk: Wade Davis
|
Oct 31 Friday
David Reedy |
Holiday Plants, Religion and Ethics
|
Leopold Holiday |
Nov 03 Monday
Justin Langlas |
Ethnopharmacology, Medical Ethnography |
Read Browner et al. 1988,
Etkin 1993,
Phillips 1996,
O'Fallon & Dearry 2002 |
Nov 05 Wednesday
Alex Boatwright |
Fungi in Society |
TED Talk: Paul Stamets
|
|
Nov 07 Friday |
Ethnopharmacology Exercise |
Leopold: Conservation Esthetic
Research Example by Keoki Baclayon |
Nov 10 Monday
Dominique Sarmiento |
Cross-Cultural Toxidromes |
Read Dr. Peter Toxidromes, Sitholes et al. 2002, Sawyer et al. 1996 |
|
Nov 12 Wednesday |
Spatial Scales & Mapping |
Read Cunningham 2001 ch 6, (
Zent 1996)
TED Talk: Ron Eglash
|
|
Nov 14 Friday |
Mapping Exercise |
Submit
Research Methods
Leopold: Wildlife in American Culture
|
|
Nov 17 Monday |
Ethics Discussion |
Survey of Ethics |
Nov 19 Wednesday
Brett Snyder |
Biological and Cultural Diversity
|
Read Berkes 1999 ch 4, (Peters 1996, Nettle & Romaine 2000)
TED Talk: Phil Borges
|
|
Nov 21 Friday |
Diversity Exercise |
Submit Research
Project
Leopold: Wilderness
|
Nov 24 Monday
Kaipo Perez |
Ecosystem Services
|
Read Veeman & Luckert 2002,
(Daily 1997, Natures Services, Ecosystem Services) |
Nov 26 Wednesday
Jeffrey Tomlinson |
Measuring Ecosystem Services |
TED Talk: Al Gore
|
|
Nov 28 Friday |
Holiday: Invasion Day |
Consider plants in Holidays |
Dec 01 Monday
Maxie Groh |
Ethnobotany and Resilience
|
Read Turner et al. 2003, (Walker et al. 2004)
|
Dec 03 Wednesday
John Jones |
Ethnobotany Databases
Intellectual Property Rights |
Read Christie 2008
Also see www.cdu.edu.au/ik (Colchester 2004,
MacKay & Caruso 2004, Mead 2004)
TED Talk: Majora Carter
|
|
Dec 05 Friday |
Survival, Scientific Ethics & Society |
Read Prance et al. 2007 Watch Did You Know?
Leopold: The Land Ethic
|
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Dec 08
Monday |
Student Projects |
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Dec 10 Wednesday |
Student Projects |
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Dec 19: 9:45AM
|
Final
Exam |