This schedule is organized by week (Note that not all "weeks" are the same units because of holidays so be careful and check dates!). Students should attend the registered section after having read the materials assigned for the week. Click on the schedule topics in the green boxes below to get to the video, audio and other materials that should be reviewed for each class and laboratory section and for the examinations. Each student is registered to attend either a Tuesday OR a Wednesday recitation section. "Lecture" content is delivered as videos noted below and may be watched on-line, on DVDs, or at the University of Hawai`i Sinclair Library, Wong Media Center. Please be patient when dowloading the videos online, it may take a while depending on your connection speed.
**Each week please turn in 1 paragraph for each video you watch, answering the following questions: What did you learn from the lecture about the relationship between people and plants? How does what you learned apply to your own life? This should demonstrate that you thought critically about what you watched, as well as serve as a study aid for your exams.**
BOT 105 Schedule
Spring 2010
Field-Trips
and Extra Credit
Field-Trips
Field-Trips
Foster Garden Fieldtrip! Meet Jill Jan 28 at 12 pm sharp in front of Yogurtland on University to take bus (or go on your own...)
Field-Trips
if you have not gone yet to Foster Garden you should go on your own!
Field-Trips
Feb 14 is Chinese New Year! I bet you can find a cultural festival to attend this weekend to satisfy your Cultural Resource Fieldtrip requirement...
Exam review session Monday Feb 15 (email Sean if you plan to attend!)
Field-Trips & Extra Credit
Optional for extra credit: Feb 27, 9 am-12 pm volunteer with the Ethnobiology Society working in Kanewai Lo'i (taro patch at Hawaiian Studies)
Optional for extra credit: Feb 27 at Lyon Arboretum Chocolate Making and History class 1-3 pm
Field-Trips and Extra Credit
Optional Extra Credit: Wed 6:30 pm Dr. McClatchey talk about cider in Imin Center Auditorium
Field-Trips
Community Resource!
Field-Trips
Field-Trips
March 28 Biship Museum special $5 admission Family Sunday
Field-Trips
Bishop Museum!
Field-Trips
Field-Trips
Field-Trips
none
Field-Trips
none
Week
1
Jan 11-15
Discussion Topics & Videos
Introduction
Readings & "Segues" (assignments to turn in)
Laboratory
(note: lab is a separate course with its own website!)
Introduction
Week
2
Discussion Topics & Videos
Ways of Knowing and of Learning
1. Opening Oli
2. Introduction
Turn in typed notes about these first two videos and a short paragraph for each video summarizing what you learned. Include at least one example from your own life which follows the THEME/focus topic of the video.
Also bring at least 1 plant or plant product to class which is culturally, economically, or personally important. Bonus points if it is food to share!
Readings & Segues
1) Read over the syllabus handed out in class and familiarize yourself with the course website
2) The Kauai Declaration and Salick et al. articles from the homepage
PLEASE BRING LAPTOP COMPUTERS TO CLASS!!! (If you have one. If not, we can share.)
We do these activities in class, with the follow-up as homework:
1) Casual and formal interviewing, discussion of final project/paper
2) Library & Information Science
Laboratory
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and The Plants All Around Us. Please bring clothes you can get dirty.
Jan 18-22
(Note: watch these videos and do readings BEFORE you come to class. Segues we do IN class and/or as homework after class as appropriate)
Week
3
Jan 25-29
Today bring in an example of your favorite (locally available) plant. Bonus points if you have cooked it into a food dish to share or made something else useful with it!
Discussion Topics & Videos
Who Leads? People or Plants?
Laboratory
Tuesday/Wednesday
Garden diversity and organic gardening
Week
4
Feb 1-5
Turn in your research question for your final paper
Discussion Topics & Videos
An Ocean in Mind
1. Evolution of Pacific Cultures
Laboratory
Tuesday/Wednesday
Week
5
Feb 8-12
Discussion Topics & Videos
What's Really for Dinner:
Major Crops
Foster Garden Worksheet Due by Feb 9 or 10
6: Feb 15-19 EXAM 1
Week
7
Feb 22-26
Please bring food to lecture this week, ideally containing limu (seaweed)!
Also, lots of extra credit opps this week!
Discussion Topics & Videos
The Spice of Life
1. Limu (Algae)
Readings & Segues
Abbott 1992 pages 45-48 and 93-96
Balick & Cox 1996 pages 132-141
Nguyen 2005 pages 185-196
We will be eating rice in class today--please bring bowls and chopsticks or forks as well as other food to go with the extra rice.
Laboratory
Tuesday/Wednesday
Week
8
March 1-5
Please bring a cup to class today!!
Week
9
March 8-12
Turn in an outline of your final interview paper including:
-Methodology? -Research question(s)? -Interviewee(s)?
Discussion Topics & Videos
Kava and ceremonial beverages
3. 'awa and Cultural Conservation
Discussion Topics & Videos
I'll Drink to That! Plant Chemistry and Spices
Readings & Segues
Abbott 1992 pages 42-43 and 113-116
Balick & Cox 1996 pages 160-164
A. Psychology
B. Chemistry
We will be drinking 'awa in class today, so please read up about it before coming to class to make an informed decision about whether or not you will drink any!
Readings & Segues
Balick & Cox 1996 pages 145-177
B. Mycology
Laboratory
Guest speaker: Ethnobotanist and author Art Whistler (bring questions for him about his fieldwork and research experiences!!)
Laboratory
Tuesday/Wednesday
Week
10
Discussion Topics & Videos
So Bitter, So Strong!
Visiting a Community Resource Worksheet Due by March 16 or 17
1. Illness and Medicine in Cultural Settings
2. Making Sense of Plant Medicines
Readings & Segues
Balick & Cox 1996 pages 25-52
Abbott 1992 pages 97-104
Balick & Cox 1996 pages 53-61
Pharmacology (take home)
Laboratory
March 15-19
Week
March 22-26
No class this week!!
I recommend watching these videos before Spring Break if you can so you can have the week free to refresh...
Readings & Segues
No class this week!
Laboratory
Week
12
March 29 -April 2
Week
13
April 5-9
Discussion Topics & Videos
Maintaining the Beat: Tapa, paper, cloth and cordage
1. A Plant Walk with Hula Plants
4. Recollection of a Family Tradition
Discussion Topics & Videos
Folk Taxonomy
Bishop Museum Worksheet Due by April 6 or 7
1. Why are Plants Useful to Us?
2. What Makes Plants Waterproof?
3. Taxonomy
Readings & Segues
Abbott 1992 pages 49-63 and 117-122
Balick & Cox 1996 pages 93-95 and 125-128
Readings & Segues
Abbott 1992 pages 64-70
Laboratory
Laboratory (Tues/Wed)
14: April 12-16 EXAM 2
Week
15
Discussion Topics & Videos
Home Is Where the Heart Is
Written Interview Assignment Due
by April 20 or 21
2. Shelter and Cultural Identification with Nature
3. Architecture & Historic Buildings
4. Home Gardens
Readings & Segues
Abbott 1992 pages 64-70
Balick & Cox 1996 pages 99-143
Laboratory
April 19-23
Week
16
April 26-30
Discussion Topics & Videos
Saving Culture and the Environment
All Extra Credit Due
by April 27 or 28
1. Ethnoecology and Conservation
2. Ethnobotany and Conservation in Africa
Laboratory
Week
17
May 3-7
Discussion Topics & Videos
Faith and Science
Due by email May 3: 1 page summary of what you learned in the class, what you liked, what you would suggest to change, and grade you think you deserve so far.
1. Ethics
Readings & Segues
Abbott 1992 pages 113-118
Segue Evaluation (conclusion)
Laboratory
Week
18
May 10-14
Discussion Topics & Videos
Final Exam (cumulative)
Readings & Segues
All readings, discussions and videos since the mid-term exam
The FINAL EXAM is offered:
Tuesday May 11 at 9:45-11:45 am
and
Friday May 14 9:45-11:45 am
You may take the exam EITHER day
(yes they will be different from each other)
Laboratory
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(Revised Aug 16, 2009)