Wk Day Date Area Topic
1 Tues 23 Aug Introduction Introduction.
1 Thurs 25 Aug Botany Outdoor lower plants field hike: Cyanobacteria, bryophytes, SVPs, lycopodium, ferns. WET MUDDY STEEP.
2 Tues 30 Aug Botany Preparation
2 Thurs 01 Sep Botany Group presentations cyanobacteria, bryophytes, lycopodium, ferns.
3 Tues 06 Sep Ethnography Plants that heal lecture. Morinda citrifolia healing uses.
3 Thurs 08 Sep Test One
4 Tues 13 Sep Botany Outdoor walk: Plant collecting process. Handout. Early warnings due.
4 Thurs 15 Sep Ethnography Healing plant individual presentations
5 Tues 20 Sep Ethnography Healing plant individual presentations
5 Thurs 22 Sep Botany Outdoor field trip: Gymnosperms and plants with economic value. Botanic garden road trip and walk.
6 Tues 27 Sep Botany Preparation
6 Thurs 29 Sep Botany Group presentations: gymnosperms
7 Tues 04 Oct Midterm
7 Thurs 06 Oct Ethnography Plants as food lecture.
8 Tues 11 Oct Ethnography Plants as food individual presentations
8 Thurs 13 Oct Ethnography Plants as food individual presentations
9 Tues 18 Oct Botany Outdoor field walk: Angiosperms: Vegetative morphology
9 Thurs 20 Oct Botany Outdoor field walk: Angiosperms: Floral morphology
10 Tues 25 Oct Guest Dr. Michael Balick<</a>/td>
10 Thurs 27 Oct Guest Dr. Michael Balick
11 Tues 01 Nov Test Two
11 Thurs 03 Nov Holiday FSM Independence
12 Tues 08 Nov Holiday Pohnpei constitution day
12 Thurs 10 Nov Ethnography Plants as the basis for material culture lecture.
13 Tues 15 Nov Ethnography Material culture individual presentations
13 Thurs 17 Nov Ethnography Material culture individual presentations
14 Tues 22 Nov Ethnography Entering other worlds lecture: Five types of psychoactive substances. Memes and Areca catechu and Piper methysticum I: Chemistry and Uses
14 Thurs 24 Nov Ethnography Piper methysticum II Legends
15 Tues 29 Nov Ethnography Family forest. Class in A204.
15 Thurs 01 Dec Ethnography Field Trip: Kava cultural ceremony
16 Tues 06 Dec Ethnography Option: Interconnecting family forest or start ethnogarden project.
16 Thurs 08 Dec Ethnography Option: Ethnobotanical garden project or conservation lecture
17 Tues 13 Dec Take Home Final [Entering other worlds optional individual presentations.] Take home final examination essay question
17 Thurs 15 Dec Take home final examination due by 5:00 P.M.

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