Anthropology 236L - The Dandelion Workshop

A laboratory designed to facilitate student exploration of how species are defined and where they belong. Focus is on weedy plants from Earth’s most diverse and cosmopolitan plant family, the Compositae, beginning with the common dandelion. Students gain experience learning technical and descriptive skills from botany as well as critical thinking skills from the humanities and social sciences to interpret geographic patterns of diversity in a world of profound human disturbance. Activities include plant dissection under stereoscopes, fieldtrips to observe and collect plants, researching plant geographic histories, drawing and describing plants, writing a taxonomic description, and mounting herbarium specimens. Corequisite: ANT 236. Restrictions: Not open to first-years. Enrollment limited to 18.

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