SPRING 2012
SPRING 2012 - BOT105A HONORS: INTRODUCTORY ETHNOBOTANY - Mānoa
This schedule is organized by week. Click on the schedule topics in the boxes below to get to the video, certain additional readings, worksheets, handouts, and other materials which should be reviewed for each class and laboratory, and for the examinations.
Watch the lecture videos, do the readings, and print the handouts BEFORE you come to class.
Ethnobotany is the scientific study of the interaction and interrelationships of plants and people. This includes a wide range of topics taken from an even wider range of disciplines, and considers the many different type of interactions between plants and human cultures. Although examples from around the world are used, a special emphasis is placed on the cultural uses of plants in Hawai‘i and the Pacific.
This course provides for General Education, Foundations Requirement credit (for graduation) under the Global and Multicultural Perspectives, Group C (FGC).
See the following course web pages:
- Learning Outcomes
- Teaching Modes
(See webpage link above).
- Abbott, Isabella. 1992. La‘au Hawai‘i, traditional Hawaiian uses of plants. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press. (A)
- Balick, Michael J. & Paul Alan Cox. 1996. Plants, People, and Culture, the science of ethnobotany. Austin, American Botanical Council (2005 reprint ed.). (B&C)
Field Trips:
(arranged by student), with worksheet(s) to be completed. See webpage, Written Assignments).
- Foster Botanical Garden.
- A Community Resource (to be selected by the student).
- Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum (Hawaiian Hall).
(See webpage link above).
- Family interactions with plants.
- Short library research on source information about “minor” [plants providing supplementary uses in a culture(s)] plants.
(See webpage link above).
Course Schedule - Spring 2012
Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:20 a.m. St. John 402
(May 2, 2012; June 25, 2012)