| Day | Date | Area | Topic | 
| Tues | 24 Aug | Attendance. | |
| Thurs | 26 Aug | Ethno | Introduction. | 
| Tues | 31 Aug | Botany: field hike. | Cyanobacteria, algae, fungi, bryophytes, lycopodium, ferns I | 
| Thurs | 02 Sep | Botany | Preparation | 
| Tues | 07 Sep | Botany | Group presentations bryophytes, lycopodium, ferns | 
| Thurs | 09 Sep | Test One | |
| Tues | 14 Sep | Ethno | Plants that heal lecture. Morinda citrifolia healing uses. | 
| Thurs | 16 Sep | Ethno: field hike | Plant collecting process | 
| Tues | 21 Sep | Ethno | Healing plant individual presentations | 
| Thurs | 23 Sep | Botany: field trip | Ferns II, gymnosperms. Botanic garden road trip and walk | 
| Tues | 28 Sep | Botany | Preparation | 
| Thurs | 30 Sep | Botany | Group presentations gymnosperms | 
| Tues | 05 Oct | Botany | URL Lab: Sources and world markets for plants of the garden | 
| Thurs | 07 Oct | Midterm | |
| Tues | 12 Oct | Ethno | Plants as food lecture. Middef due. | 
| Thurs | 14 Oct | Ethno | Plants as food individual presentations | 
| Tues | 19 Oct | Botany: field | Angiosperms: Vegetative morphology | 
| Thurs | 21 Oct | Ethno | Plants as the basis for material culture lecture. | 
| Tues | 26 Oct | Ethno | Material culture individual presentations | 
| Thurs | 28 Oct | Botany: field | Angiosperms: Floral morphology | 
| Tues | 02 Nov | Test Two | |
| Thurs | 04 Nov | Ethno | Return test two. Five types of psychoactive substances. | 
| Tues | 09 Nov | Ethno | Entering other worlds lecture: Five types of psychoactive substances. | 
| Thurs | 11 Nov | Ethno | Memes and Areca catechu and Piper methysticum I: Chemistry and Uses | 
| Tues | 16 Nov | Ethno | Piper methysticumII Legends | 
| Thurs | 18 Nov | Ethno: field trip | Kava cultural ceremony | 
| Tues | 23 Nov | Ethno | [Entering other worlds optional individual presentations.] | 
| Thurs | 25 Nov | Ethno | Family forest | 
| Tues | 30 Nov | Design a garden: What plants would be in your cultural garden? | |
| Thurs | 02 Dec | Ethnobotany and conservation | |
| Tues | 07 Dec | ||
| Thurs | 09 Dec | THF | Take home final examination essay question | 
| Tues | 14 Dec | THF | Take home final examination due by 4:15 P.M. |