BIOL 230: Ethnobotany

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Class Program

Biology

Credits

Weekly Contact Hours

Course ID

091482

Meets Degree Requirements For

Natural Science with Lab

Description

Survey of native plants of the Okanogan and their cultural, medicinal, and ecological importance to the First People and ecosystems of the Plateau Region.

Course Learning Outcomes

Have a broad understanding of ethnobotany of the Salish-speaking people of the Columbia Basin as well as elsewhere in the world.

Have an appreciation of the diversity and complexity of plant life.

Explain how native plants and their natural products are/were used by the First People.

Have an appreciation of the aesthetic value and ecological importance of plants to the existence of all organisms.

Have an appreciation of the diversity of the Pacific Northwest native culture and their use of plants.

Know what interdisciplinary science is and have a brief introduction to scientific disciplines related to ethnobotany. Have a basic understanding of the scientific methods used to study ethnobotany.

Core Topics

Introduction to the classification and taxonomy of plants and the use of taxonomic keys to identify native plants.
Learn about the life cycles and growth characteristics of plants.
Introduction to the classification hierarchy of plants and the characteristics used to place plants into classes, orders, families, genera, and species.
Learn identification and cultural uses of common plants being used by First People of the Columbia Basin.
1. Native tree identification and cultural uses
2. Identification of native shrubs and cultural uses
3. Identification of native forbs and cultural uses
4. Identification of grasses and grass-like plants and cultural uses