Biological Sciences 145GW - A Green World
Fall
2017
01
4.00
Amy Frary
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM
Mount Holyoke College
100982
Carr 102
afrary@mtholyoke.edu
This course examines the plant life in the woods and fields around us, the exotic plants in our greenhouses, and the plants we depend on for food. We will study plants living in surprising circumstances, settling into winter, escaping from gardens, reclaiming farmland, cooperating with fungi and insects, and fighting for their lives. We will find that plants challenge some conventional, animal-based assumptions about what matters to living things. In labs, students will seek to answer their questions about how plants grow in nature, by studying plant structure and function, ecology, and evolution.
This course is limited to first-year students.; Coreq: BIOL-145GWL.
Multiple required components--lab and/or discussion section. To register, submit requests for all components simultaneously.