2020 Fall

INTEGBI 117LF 002 - LAB 002

Medical Ethnobotany Laboratory

Betsabe Dianne Castro Escobar

Aug 26, 2020 - Dec 11, 2020

Tu, Th

02:00 pm - 04:59 pm

Internet/Online

Class #:22041

Units: 2

Instruction Mode: Hybrid--Has in-person meetings

Offered through Integrative Biology

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 0

Enrolled: 24

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 24

Waitlist Max: 5

Open Reserved Seats:

1 reserved for Integrative Biology Majors

1 reserved for New Undergraduate Transfer Students

3 reserved for Undergraduate Students with 5 or more Terms in Attendance and All Graduate Students

Hours & Workload

6 hours of instructional experiences requiring special laboratory equipment and facilities per week, and 0 hours of outside work hours per week.

Laboratory will focus on studying medicinal plants from the major ecosystems and geographical regions of the world. Students will learn common names, scientific names, plant families, field identification, habitats, and ethnomedical uses of medicinal plants. How the medicinal plant is prepared, administered, and used as a phytomedicine will also be discussed. There will be reference to the phylogenetic relationships between the plant families and genera represented by the medicinal plants.