Mar 28, 2024  
2014-2015 General/Graduate Catalog - Expires August 2020 
    
2014-2015 General/Graduate Catalog - Expires August 2020 [Archived Catalog]

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BIOL 317 - Economic and Medical Botany


This course provides a survey of the major plants that have impacted human society. In addition to providing oxygen, food, and shelter, plants have played a major role in the development of human civilizations, impacting such areas as medicine, religion, art, literature, industry, and politics. From both botanical and historical perspectives, we study the major plants that provide humans with such important products as coffee, sugar, chocolate, spices, oils, and fibers (and many others). Particular emphasis is placed on plants that have played a direct or indirect role in human medicine.

Prerequisite: One life science course of AGSC 100 - Food, Agriculture, and the Environment , AGSC 108 - Introduction to Agricultural Systems , BIOL 100 - Biology , BIOL 103 - General Botany , BIOL 106 - General Zoology , BIOL 107 - Introductory Biology I , or BIOL 150 - Honors Biology .
Credits: 3
When Offered: (every other fall)
NOTE:
* This course counts toward the 63-credit Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) graduation requirement.



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