BIOL347

(Formerly BIOL247) Topics include perspectives in the history, development and applications of wild and cultivated plants possessing properties for sustaining health, healing ailments and curing diseases. This course emphasizes on the identification, distribution, propagation, and cultivation, of those determined to have medicinal, nourishing, psychoactive, or injurious qualities. Attention is also given to certain species used exclusively for culinary purposes. A lecture and a greenhouse/laboratory practice will be combined into each week’s class.