I haven't taught a non-majors course BUT still will make a suggestion,
since you are considering some "economic botany": Henry Hobhouse's _Seeds
of Change_ is a marvelous account of the roles of a half dozen plants in
human history (tea, cotton, quinine, potato, etc.)-- he is a great
storyteller. I've stolen (& condensed) his stories and told them to my
classes, and it's the favorite part.
Our approach for non-majors is to have "topics" courses for them, complete
with labs (and/or field work), but without bio majors. They work quite
well.
-Chris Cole
At 08:31 PM 1/16/03 -0000, Beverly Brown wrote:
>Hi all!
>>I've just been given the opportunity to consider a non-majors plant
>course with a lab and am wondering what others have done along these
>lines. I'm starting to toss around an economic botany type class but
>can consider other alternatives. Students would take the class to meet
>their science requirement at our liberal arts college.
>>Would anyone like to chime in? I would be most grateful for those
>willing to share syllabi and text recommendations.
>>Thanks in advance!
>>Beverly
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>Nazareth College of Rochester Fax: 585-586-2452
>Biology Department E-mail: bjbrown at naz.edu>4245 East Avenue
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>>Christopher T. Cole
Associate Professor of Biology
University of Minnesota - Morris
Morris, MN
colect at mrs.umn.edu
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