Course Details
Country:
Costa Rica
Institution:
Universidad Veritas
Course Title:
Tropical Botany: Useful Plants Workshop
Course Number:
ENV 3150
Course Description:
This course will provide students with a general overview of Neotropical useful plants. Students will gain insight about basic botanical concepts and will be able to explore a variety of tropical ecosystems and life zones, their flora and the multiple and complex ecological interactions that can be found in these areas, as well as the most important uses of plants in the Neotropics. Costa Rica is a tropical country with an immensely rich biodiversity and for this reason a very representative area to these studies. Emphasis will be given to the most common plant families in Costa Rica, but other Neotropical families will be discussed as well. The course includes four laboratory practices about Phytomorphology (Plant Morphology), Plant reproduction, and Costa Rican plant diversity. Activities during lab sessions include observation, dissection, and plant identification, no experiments are conducted. Students also learn to mount herbaria botanic samples during the course. Field
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
BIOL 435
Attachment Files:
ENV 3150 Tropical Botany syllabus 2019.pdf
