IDIS 218 - Wicked Plants

4 Credits

1 Units

This course explores the origin and diversification of land plants, especially flowering plants with ethnobotanical uses. This course covers plant identification and nomenclature, botanical accuracy of medicinal plants, edible plants, and toxic plants. This course also introduces students to plants that changed the course of history through their capacity to be edible, deadly, addictive, healing, and economically profitable. The cultivation and global spread of plants became the impetus for many inventions that are discussed in this course. Students read primary literature, communicate scientific findings, synthesize information from multiple sources verbally and in written format. This is an interdisciplinary course that combines plant taxonomy with the historical use of plants. (U1)

Prerequisite: JUNIOR OR SENIOR CLASS STANDING
LinC Requirement: U1

Credit Type Code: Letter Grade