This course will provide a high-level, integrated biological science and area-studies course that is relevant to student researchers working in Southeast Asia. Students will learn about ethnobotanical, biogeographical, biological and conservation concepts. More importantly, students will learn to apply these concepts in the context of Southeast Asian biological and cultural diversity. The course will lead students from the evolutionary history of Southeast Asian biodiversity to major human cultural distributions to evolution of agriculture to modern impacts on Southeast Asian biocultural diversity to current conservation research in the region. The course is divided into six sections:
Course Prerequisite: BOT 440 or GEOG 309 or GEOG 312 or Instructor Approval
The course will be taught in a lecture/discussion format. Students are expected to conduct hands-on work with data sets in class. In addition, students are expected to provide a short overviews of articles that they have read prior to class.