Wk | Day | Date | Area | Topic |
0 | Thurs | 11 Jan | Introduction | Introduction to Ethnobotany. Cyanobacteria. |
1 | Tues | 16 Jan | Botany | Outdoor lower plants field hike: Bryophytes, SVPs, lycopodium, ferns. WET MUDDY STEEP. |
1 | Thurs | 18 Jan | Ethnogarden | Outdoor: Finding the plants of fall 2006: Tall razor grass will cut your legs and hands. Merremia peltata will stain your clothes. Sharp knives will be used. Sweaty. Hot. Wet. Muddy. |
2 | Tues | 23 Jan | Ethnography | Preparation for group presentations. |
2 | Thurs | 25 Jan | Ethnography | Group presentations cyanobacteria, bryophytes, lycopodium, ferns. |
3 | Tues | 30 Jan | Test One | |
3 | Thurs | 01 Feb | Ethnography | Outdoor field trip: Traditional and medicinal plants of Pohnpei field trip to Pohnpei state campus. Read People, Plants, and Culture chapter two. Plants that heal lecture. Public versus private knowledge. |
4 | Tues | 06 Feb | Botany | Plant collecting process. Herbarium specimens. |
4 | Thurs | 08 Feb | Ethnography | Healing plant individual presentations |
5 | Tues | 13 Feb | Ethnography | Healing plant individual presentations |
5 | Thurs | 15 Feb | Botany | Outdoor field trip: Gymnosperms and plants with economic value. Pohnpei botanic garden road trip and walk. |
6 | Tues | 20 Feb | Botany | Preparation for gymnosperm presentations |
6 | Thurs | 22 Feb | Botany | Group presentations: gymnosperms |
7 | Tues | 27 Feb | Midterm | |
7 | Thurs | 01 Mar | Ethnography | Read Balick chapter three. Plants as food lecture. [Scrubbed for arrival of Hokule'a and Maisu] |
8 | Tues | 06 Mar | Ethnography | Outdoor walk: Food plants of Nanyo |
8 | Thurs | 08 Mar | Ethnography | Plants as food: Each cultural group brings a traditional food to share. |
9 | Tues | 13 Mar | Botany | Outdoor field walk: Angiosperms: Vegetative morphology |
9 | Thurs | 15 Mar | Ethnography | Balick four. Plants as the basis for material culture lecture. |
10 | Tues | 20 Mar | Ethnography | Field trip: Marekeiso production |
10 | Thurs | 22 Mar | Ethnography | Material culture individual presentations |
11 | Tues | 27 Mar | Ethnography | Material culture individual presentations |
11 | Thurs | 29 Mar | Test Two | |
12 | Tues | 03 Apr | Ethnogarden | Muddy, steep, wet, dangerous, ankle twisting, raszor grass death by a thousand cuts, heart attack inducing iuiu, ketiou transplant hike. Mountain men and women only need apply. |
12 | Thurs | 05 Apr | Spring break | |
13 | Tues | 10 Apr | Botany | Outdoor field walk: Angiosperms: Floral morphology. Sketch flowers. |
13 | Thurs | 12 Apr | Econobotany | Bring an unusual fruit to eat, botanic fruit. URL Lab: World foods and fruits. Finding information on the web. |
14 | Tues | 17 Apr | Econobotany | URL lab group presentations. |
14 | Thurs | 19 Apr | Ethnography | Balick five. Entering other worlds lecture: Five types of psychoactive substances. Memes and Areca catechu. |
15 | Tues | 24 Apr | Ethnography | Piper methysticum: Chemistry and Uses, Legends |
15 | Thurs | 26 Apr | Ethnography | Field Trip: Kava cultural ceremony |
16 | Tues | 01 May | Ethnogarden | Outdoor work with dirt: Ethnobotanical garden clean-up. Tall razor grass will cut your legs and hands. Merremia peltata will stain your clothes. Sharp knives will be used. Sweaty. Hot. Wet. Muddy. |
16 | Thurs | 03 May | Ethnogarden | Outdoor work with dirt: Ethnobotanical garden BRING A PLANT TO PLANT! Take Home Final |
17 | Tues | 08 May | Take home final examination due by 5:00 P.M. |