Plants & People/Health Course

> Hi all, I've been asked to develop a new course in Economic/Ethnbotany
> (possibly as narrow as Medical Botany). Suggestions regarding textbook or
> other resources (syllabi, websites, etc.) would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks for your help!

We use "Economic Botany: Plants in Our World" by Simpson and Ogorzaly.
I think
they're up to the third edition. Our website is at:
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/biolherb/botn328.htm From this portal
page you can look at the lab and lecture syllabi, course notes, and lab
overviews.

I'm sorry you're planning a no-lab course. Watching the students eat
weird fruits, try new legumes, encounter wild plants, make paper, and
cook and serve a plant based dish is what makes this course a joy to
teach. The students also seem to really like the lab.

Monique Reed
Texas A&M

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Pale, Fatimata - 28 Apr 2006 15:12 GMT

Hello All:

I will be going on my first sabbatical , and I would like to do something with plants. Please advise me. I want to further some knowledge on plants that I can bring back to my students. I will be taking a whole semester.

Thank you for your input.

Pale'

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Donna I. Ford-Werntz wrote:

> Hi all, I've been asked to develop a new course in Economic/Ethnbotany
> (possibly as narrow as Medical Botany). Suggestions regarding textbook or
> other resources (syllabi, websites, etc.) would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks for your help!

We use "Economic Botany: Plants in Our World" by Simpson and Ogorzaly.
I think
they're up to the third edition. Our website is at:
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/biolherb/botn328.htm From this portal
page you can look at the lab and lecture syllabi, course notes, and lab
overviews.

I'm sorry you're planning a no-lab course. Watching the students eat
weird fruits, try new legumes, encounter wild plants, make paper, and
cook and serve a plant based dish is what makes this course a joy to
teach. The students also seem to really like the lab.

Monique Reed
Texas A&M

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> Hi all, I've been asked to develop a new course in Economic/Ethnbotany
> (possibly as narrow as Medical Botany). Suggestions regarding textbook or
> other resources (syllabi, websites, etc.) would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks for your help!

We use "Economic Botany: Plants in Our World" by Simpson and Ogorzaly.
I think
they're up to the third edition. Our website is at:
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/biolherb/botn328.htm From this portal
page you can look at the lab and lecture syllabi, course notes, and lab
overviews.

I'm sorry you're planning a no-lab course. Watching the students eat
weird fruits, try new legumes, encounter wild plants, make paper, and
cook and serve a plant based dish is what makes this course a joy to
teach. The students also seem to really like the lab.

Monique Reed
Texas A&M

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There was a thread starting Oct. 29, 2004 in this group titled Seeds of
Change by H. Hobhouse. It included a list of books and web resources on
economic botany.

It can be located via google.com groups or the bionet.plants.education
archive:
http://www.bio.net/hypermail/plant-ed/

David R. Hershey

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Natural Science Forum / Biology / Botany / April 2006

Plants & People/Health Course