SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany spring 2023

SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany syllabus and calendar Calendar of topics and laboratories for SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany Tuesday A101 3:30 Thursday A101 3:30 01 10 Jan A101 Ethnobotany 001 Course introduction▶️ One📖 12 Jan A101 Tech in ethnobotany ▶️ Bring mobile phone to class: iNat intro▶️ Text 📖 Flora 🌺 Canvas ⭕ iNat 🌿 02 17 Jan A101 020 An introduction to SVP🎞️ Two📖 19 Jan A101 ➡ outdoor walk on campus 020 Seedless vascular plants walk▶️ 03 24 Jan A101 030 Healing plants (revised) ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ 030 Healing plants walk Paies Three📖 26 Jan A101 030 Healing plant presentations in class Remember to make iNat obs of your plant! 04 31 Jan A101 iNaturalist working field day 🌿 healing plant observation with essay 📷 02 Feb Test one 05 07 Feb Pwunso, Kolonia. ▶️ 040 Pwunso botanic garden field trip Meet behind public library. Four 📖 09 Feb A101 040 Gymnosperms, timber trees, spices 06 14 Feb Pwunso, Kolonia 050 Island Food Community field trip Meet behind public library.▶️ Five📖 16 Feb A101 ➡ outdoor walk on campus Food introduction in Micronesia 07 21 Feb A101 050 Ethnobotanical food presentations ▶️ ▶️ Remember to make iNat obs of your plant! 23 Feb A101 iNaturalist working field day 🌿 food plant observation with essay 📷 08 28 Feb A101 060 Angiosperm introduction 02 Mar A101 ➡ outdoor 060 Vegetative morphology walk ▶️ Six📖 09 07 Mar A101 Test two 09 Mar A101 ▶️ 080 Floral meanings and morphology▶️ Eight📖 10 14 Mar Gym Gym parking lot weather permitting Thatching activity at gym! 16 Mar A101 070 Material culture introduction▶️ Seven📖 11 21 Mar meet at the gym Haruki 23 Mar A101 Material culture presentations Remember to make iNat obs of your plant! 12 28 Mar iNaturalist working field day 🌿 material culture plant obs with essay 30 Mar A101 ➡ outdoor ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ 090 Angiosperms: fruit types▶️ Nine📖 Test three 13 04 Apr Faculty development day 06 Apr Spring break 14 11 Apr A101 Invasive species▶️ Invasive species slides and walk🎞️ 100 Shinrin yoku▶️ 13 Apr Climate change, planting trees▶️ Global warming basics, CO2, Carbon sequestration 15 18 Apr A101 102 Sacred plants▶️ 103 Alt list sacred + legendary▶️ 20 Apr A101 Plants in legends and stories presentations ▶️ 🌿 legendary plant obs with essay 16 25 Apr A101 Psychoactive plant: Betel nut▶️ Ten📖 27 Apr Psychoactive sacred ceremonial plant:Piper methysticum▶️ 17 02 May Test four 04 May A101 ➡ outdoor Field final review

Test five: field final examination Monday 08 May at 4:20 PM starting at A101. Final is a field final with questions in Canvas. Mobile phone required to take the final!

▶️ icons are links to a video in support of the section
📖 are links to the relevant chapter of the textbook
⭕ is a test in Canvas

Course structure

Botanic scienceEthnographic experiences
1. 010 Most primitive, least evolved: cyanobacteria
More complex, more evolved
2. 020 Primitive plants: Mosses: spore capsules, spores, sperm, eggs; Monilophytes [ferns]: sori, spores, sperm, eggs; Lycophytes: cones, spores, sperm, eggs
4. 040 Seeded non-flowering plants: Gymnosperms: cones, pollen, naked seeds
Most complex, most evolved: Seeded flowering plants (Angiosperms):
6. 060 vegetative morphology: leaf shapes
8. 080 floral morphology: flower shapes
9. 090 fruit types
3. 030 Healing plants: Plants that heal us
5. 050 Food plants: Plants that feed us
7. 070 Material culture plants: Plants that provide shelter, transportation, clothing, and that decorate our bodies, homes, and gardens
10. 100 Sacred plants: Plants that entertain, inspirit,and enrapture us,plants that inspire legends.

Syllabus

Program learning outcomes:
GE 3.4 Define and explain the concepts, principles, and theories of a field of science.
GE 4.2 Demonstrate knowledge of the major cultural issues of a person's own culture as well as other cultures.
MSP 2 Demonstrate proficiency in the geographical, historical, and cultural literacy of the Micronesian region.
Course learning outcomes:
1. Identify local plants, their reproductive strategies, and morphology.
1.1 Identify local plants by local and scientific names.
1.2 Compare and contrast the distinguishing reproductive characteristics of different phyla of plants including mosses, seedless vascular plants, gymnosperms, and angiosperms.
1.3 Label the key morphological features of the different phyla of plants including mosses, seedless vascular plants, gymnosperms, and angiosperms including the morphology of the reproductive structures.
2. Communicate and describe the cultural use of local plants for healing, as food, as raw materials, and in traditional social contexts.
2.1 Communicate and describe the healing uses of local plants and the cultural contexts in which that healing occurs.
2.2 Communicate and describe the food uses of local plants and engage and describe the production processes
2.3 Communicate and describe the use of plants for transportation, for shelter, and in other material culture applications.
2.4 Engage in activities that explore the use, role, and importance of psychoactive plants within their traditional ceremonial cultural contexts.