TENTATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE:

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Date	Topic	Chapter Assignment
Aug 19	Introduction
Aug 21-26	World Population Growth	lecture and discussion
Aug 28	Plant Systematics and Taxonomy	Ch 8
Aug 28	Biodiversity	Ch 9
Sep 2-4	Plants and Prehistory, Origins of Agriculture and the Agricultural Revolution: Pre-Columbian contacts between the Old and New Worlds	Ch 10,11
Sep 9	To Feed the World	Video
Sep 11	Major Food Plants	lecture
Sep 16	Exam 1
Sep 18	Cereals : Maize	Ch 12
Sep 23	Cereals (cont.): Wheat, Rice and others	Ch 12
Sep 25	Legumes, Plant Oils	Ch 13
Sep 30	Starchy Staples	Ch,14
Oct 2	The Green Revolution	Ch15
Oct 7	Exam II
Oct 13	Last day to withdraw without grade
Oct 9, 14	Beverage Plants	Ch 16 & 24
Oct 16	Biodynamic Plants	Ch 19 & 20
Oct 21	Biodynamic Plants Cont.
Oct 23	Algae and Fungi	Ch 22 & 23
Oct 28-30	Energy Issues	"There Once Was a River"
Nov 4-6	Biofuels and Energy Alternatives	Lecture
Nov 11	Exam III
Nov 13	Ecology, Trees, Forests and Ecosystems	Ch 18, 26, & "Thinking Like a Mountain" (Leopold)
Nov 18	Biomes of the World	Lecture
Nov 20	Yellowstone Fires: Fire Ecology	Video
Nov 24-28	Thanksgiving
Dec 2	Environmental Issues, Conservation Biology	"Good Oak"
Dec 4	Land Ethic
Dec 9	Final Exam, 10:00 - 12:00