SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany syllabus and calendar Calendar of topics and laboratories for SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany Tuesday Thursday 01 15 Jan A101 → Field Introduction to Ethnobotany Final exam iNaturalist 🌿 🌼 Text 📖 Flora 🌺 Schoology Ⓢ 17 Jan Southeast side of gym. Outdoor dirty Ethnogardening & Machete safety 🔪→exiv Machetes & rakes used. Sweaty, muddy, wet 02 22 Jan Agriculture area. Outdoor dirty. Banana patch ethnogardening Banana patch gdoc handout 📖 One 24 Jan A101 Preparation for group presentations cyanobacteria, mosses, monilophytes. 03 29 Jan A101 →westside. Outdoor hike. Wet, muddy, steep. Mosses, lyco and monilo Valley west of campus. 📖 Two 31 Jan A101 Group presentations: cyanobacteria, mosses (bryophytes), lycophytes, monilo 04 05 Feb Rainy: A204 Healing plant videos Sunny: A101 → Paies. Healing plant walk. 📖 Three 07 Feb If Tue was sunny: A204 Healing plant videos If Tue was rainy: A101 → Paies walk 05 12 Feb A101 Healing plant individual presentations 14 Feb A204 Preparation gymno How to avoid death By PowerPoint Schoology 💘 💘 06 19 Feb → Pwunso Kolonia. Outdoor field Gymnosperms, plants with economic value. 📖 Four 21 Feb A204 Group presentations: gymnosperms Determine food groups food presentations. 07 26 Feb → Pwunso Kolonia. Outdoor field Island Food Community of Pohnpei. 28 Feb A101 Midterm 08 05 Mar A101 → Outdoor food plants walk Plants that feed us. Planning session food presentations. Smells, memories 📖 Five 07 Mar A101 Plants as food: Each cultural group brings a traditional food to share Group presentation with food. 09 12 Mar A101 → outdoor. Vegetative morph. Leaf and stem 📖 Six Veg morph walk handout Pl@ntNet 🌿 🌼 14 Mar Material Culture: Thatching At gym if sunny Doakoahs en Pohnpei, Ruhk 📖 Seven 10 19 Mar A101 Material Culture presentations 📖 Seven 21 Mar → Gym. Haruki. Outdoor dirty. Ohigan. Shunbun no hi. Sweaty. Hot. Wet. Muddy. 🔪 → exiv 11 26 Mar A204 then Outdoor walk. Flowers! 📖 Eight 8. Floral morphology. Floral morph walk handout Pl@ntNet 🌿 🌼 28 Mar Faculty development day 12 02 Apr A101→walkabout. Outdoor Invasive species checklist A walk and talk 6 steps handout 04 Apr A204 iNaturalist presentation preparation iNaturalist 🌿 🌼 13 09 Apr A101 Fruit salad worksheet. Fruit key 📖 Nine 11 Apr A204 iNaturalist presentations iNaturalist 🌿 🌼 14 16 Apr A204 → walkabout outside iff wx Shinrin-yoku 🌲🌳🌴 Bath iff wx... 📖🌲🌳🌴 18 Apr Easter break 🐰 🐇 15 23 Apr → Ag. Banana patch cleaning + review fx Meet at bananas in ag area 25 Apr Southeast side gym. Outdoor dirty Final garden cleaning and final exam review Machetes. Sweaty, muddy, wet 🔪 →exiv 16 30 Apr A204 Psychoactive plants. Piper methysticum video playlist Kava handout K. Paul info 📖 Ten 02 May → Field Trip: Kava cultural ceremony Location to be determined. SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany syllabus and calendar 2 Calendar of topics and laboratories for SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany Tuesday Thursday 17 07 May A101 Course evaluation Insights Outdoor walk & review campus flora 09 MayNo class SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany syllabus and calendar 3 Calendar of topics and laboratories for SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany Monday 18 13 May A101 → campus Monday 4:20 to 6:20 A field practical final on campus identifying the plants and their uses.

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

❧ Required material: Smartphone. Textbook is online. Flora is online. Schoology is online. Pl@ntNet 🌿 🌼 is online.
❧ Attendance policy: Students who have more than four unexcused absences prior to the last day to withdraw with a W may be withdrawn from the course by the instructor. Exceeding four unexcused absences after the last day to withdraw with a W can result in failure of the course. Absences for medical or academic reasons can be excused by a note from a medical official or a faculty sponsor.
❧ Attendance and participation are critically important in this class. The class is in part a set of shared experiences. Being absent not only has a negative impact on your own learning, being absent has a negative impact on the social cohesion of the class as a whole. This is a participatory class.
❧ Come to class prepared having read the text, prepared to listen or take notes, and ready to learn or give a presentation and you will do well. This class is all about actively being here.
❧ Field trips, hikes, and outings: Rain or shine, on and off trail. Hikes over difficult, steep, muddy, and slippery terrain are conducted. Outdoor work days are in pouring rain or hot sun and involve sharp objects such as machetes. Plants grow where they want to, not where it is convenient for us. Plant knowledge gained on hikes is testable material: Ethnobotany is a listen, watch, experience, do, and learn field!
❧ Office hours: Monday & Wednesday 1:00 to 3:00 or by appointment. See also further contact information below.
❧ No betelnut chewing in class.
❧ Assessment: Tests and examinations include coverage of student learning outcomes on outline. Some outcomes are assessed via presentations. Grade is based on participation in course activities, performing presentations, and achievement on tests. Being here and being an active participant are crucial to success in this course.
❧ Ethnographic individual presentations are oral presentations to the class. Healing plants presentation: bring the plant. Material culture: bring the item. Fruit: bring the fruit. Some students will have to work with the instructor to find suitable material for presentations.
❧ The presentation of a traditional food is done as a group. Each culture presents a single food, bringing that food to share with the class.
❧ Photographs are taken of class presentations, hikes, field, trips, and activities. These photographs are used as part of the documentation of the course.
❧ Work phone: 320-2480 Extension 161. Cell: 926-2868 Email: dleeling@comfsm.fm, danaleeling@gmail.com
❧ Course grade is tracked in Schoology.
Program learning outcomes:
ANR 2 Demonstrate basic competencies in the management of land resources and food production.
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.
3. Demonstrate basic field work competencies related to management of culturally useful plant resources and foods
3.1 Cultivate, maintain, and produce culturally useful plants
3.2 Engage in traditional field work with plants including the production of food plants
3.3 Be able to identify, distinguish, and remove invasive plant species