Fall 2010 Manoa

Fall 2010 Class - Manoa

This schedule is organized by 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. "Lecture" content is delivered as videos noted below, and may be watched on-line 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.

Watch the lecture videos and do the readings, BEFORE you come to class.

Each week please turn in one typed paragraph for each video you watch, answering the following questions:

(1) What did you learn from the lecture about the relationship between people and plants?

(2) How does what you learned apply to your own life? Include at least one example

This should demonstrate that you thought critically about what you watched, as well as serve as a study aid for your exams.

Each week bring at least one plant to class that fits with the theme of the week and is culturally,economically or personally important to you or your family

BOT 105 Schedule

Fall 2010 ( NOT final)

Field-Trips

and Extra Credit

Field-Trips

if you have not gone yet to Foster Garden you should go on your own!

Field-Trips

Field-Trips & Extra Credit

Field-Trips and Extra Credit

Field-Trips

Complete your Community Resource visit.

Field-Trips

July 31 Saturday, 2:30 pm B. P. Bishop Museum, inside Hawaiian Hall (R. vestibule). There is a 45 minutes planetarium show at 1:30 pm.

Field-Trips

none

Field-Trips

none

Week

Discussion Topics & Videos

Introduction

1. Opening Oli

2. Introduction

Readings & "Segues" (assignments to turn in)

1) Read over the syllabus handed out the first day of class and familiarize yourself with the course website.

2) The Kauai Declaration, and Salick et al. articles from the homepage

Laboratory

(note: lab is a separate course with its own website!)

Introduction

Aug 23/24

Week

Discussion Topics & Videos

Readings & Segues

1) Casual and formal interviewing, discussion of final project/paper

2) Library & Information Science

Explore:

A.1)http://www.hawaii.edu/sciref/botany105.html

B.Library reference materials

Laboratory

Week

Aug 31/Sept1

Discussion Topics & Videos

Who Leads? People or Plants?

1. Guns, Germs & Steel

2. Transported Landscapes

3. Origins of Plant Uses

Readings & Segues

Balick & Cox 1996 pages 1-23

A.Botany: plant names, plant anatomy, taxonomy

B. History

Pacific Navigator Game

Laboratory

Plants & Migrations

Week

Discussion Topics & Videos

An Ocean in Mind

Research question for your final paper due on July 14

1. Evolution of Pacific Cultures

2. Lapita Toolkits

3. Canoe Plants: Five Pacific Trees

4. Crops in Pacific Island Cultures

Readings & Segues

Abbott 1992 pages 1-44

Balick & Cox 1996 pages 98-113

Linguistics

Laboratory

Fruits & Vegetables

Sept 7/8

Week

Sept 14/15

Week

Discussion Topics & Videos

What's Really for Dinner:

Major Crops

1. Wild Plant Foods

2. Origins of Agriculture

3. World Food Crops

Discussion Topics & Videos

The Spice of Life

Foster Garden Worksheet due on July 19

1. Limu (Algae)

2. Cultural and Culinary Ethnobotanical Knowledge

3. Spices and Herbs

Readings & Segues

Abbott 1992 pages 43-44

Balick & Cox 1996 pages 63-97

Chock 1968 pages 221-238

Nutrition 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.

Readings & Segues

Abbott 1992 pages 45-48 and 93-96

Balick & Cox 1996 pages 132-141

Nguyen 2005 pages 185-196

Marine Biology

Please bring food to class this week, ideally containing limu (seaweed).

Laboratory

Home Gardens

Laboratory

Limu

Sept 21/22

Week

Sept 28/29

Discussion Topics & Videos

Kava and ceremonial beverages

1. Stimulating Beverages

2. Alcoholic Beverages

3. 'awa and Cultural Conservation

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 about it before coming to class, so you will be able to make an informed decision about whether or not to drink it.

Laboratory

Spices, Flavors & Essential Oils

Week

Oct 5/6

Discussion Topics & Videos

I'll Drink to That! Plant Chemistry and Spices

1. Entering Another World

2. Psychoactive Plants I

3. Psychoactive Plants II

Readings & Segues

Balick & Cox 1996 pages 145-177

A. Plant Pathology

B. Mycology

Laboratory

Oct 12/13 - MID-TERM EXAMINATION All readings, discussions & videos

Week

Oct 19/20

Week

Oct 26/27

Discussion Topics & Videos

So Bitter, So Strong!

Visiting a Community Resource Worksheet Due by July 28

1. Illness and Medicine in Cultural Settings

2. Making Sense of Plant Medicines

3. Herbal Remedies

Discussion Topics & Videos

Peaceful Warriors

1. Polynesian Herbal Medicine 2. Rotuman Health Care 3. Hawaiian Health Care 4. Chinese Traditional Medicine 5. Medicinal Plants Dolpo, Nepal

Readings & Segues

Balick & Cox 1996 pages 25-52

Medicine

Readings & Segues

Abbott 1992 pages 97-104

Balick & Cox 1996 pages 53-61

Sustainable Agriculture

Laboratory

Beverages

Laboratory

Biotechnology

NOV 2/3 - ELECTION DAY

Week

Nov 9/10

Week

Nov 16/17

Week

Discussion Topics & Videos

Maintaining the Beat: Tapa, paper, cloth and cordage

1. A Plant Walk with Hula Plants

2. Kuo Hina E Hiapo

3. Felted Bark: Kapa/Tapa

4. Recollection of a Family Tradition

Discussion Topics & Videos

Folk Taxonomy

Bishop Museum Worksheet Due by August 4

1. Why are Plants Useful to Us?

2. What Makes Plants Waterproof?

3. Taxonomy

Discussion Topics & Videos

Home Is Where the Heart Is

Written Interview Assignment due

by August 6, 5 pm; must be sent as an MS Word or WordPerfect document attachment (NO pdf!) to

e-mail address

1. Hawaiian Housing Materials

2. Shelter and Cultural Identification with Nature

3. Architecture & Historic Buildings

4. Home Gardens

Discussion Topics & Videos

Saving Culture and the Environment

All Extra Credit Due

by August 9

1. Ethnoecology and Conservation

2. Ethnobotany and Conservation in Africa

3. Carving a Future: 10 lessons for sustainable woodcarving

4. Ethnobotany and Conservation in Micronesia

Readings & Segues

Abbott 1992 pages 49-63 and 117-122

Balick & Cox 1996 pages 93-95 and 125-128

A. Plant Anatomy

B. Mathematics and Music

Readings & Segues

Abbott 1992 pages 64-70

Botany

Readings & Segues

Abbott 1992 pages 64-70

Balick & Cox 1996 pages 99-143

Horticulture

Readings & Segues

Balick & Cox 1996 pages 128-132 and 179-208

Ecology

Laboratory

Herbal Medicine

Laboratory (Tues/Wed)

Cloth, Fibers & Cordage

Laboratory

Lo'i, Community Gatdens, Landscapes

Laboratory

Ecology & Conservation

Nov 23/24

Week

Nov30/Dec1

Week

Dec 7/8

Discussion Topics & Videos

Faith and Science

Due by e-mail August 11: One 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

2. Buddhism and Plants

3. Christianity and Plants

Readings & Segues

Abbott 1992 pages 113-118

Science Education

Segue Evaluation (conclusion)

Ku`u Pua i Paoakalani

Laboratory

Project Presentations

Week

Dec 13-17