Botany Botany General Information Elective Courses (to bring hours to a minimum of 45 credit hours): Botany 320 (5)*, 322 (4), 310 (5) or 350 (5) or 351 (5); Chem 213 (5)*, 305 (4)*, 313 (4); Micro 405 (5)*, 325 (5), 376 (4), 455 (5), 348 (5) or 385 (5); Zool 332 (4), 420 (5)*, 425 (4), 412 (5) or 423 (5) or 421 (5) and 422 (5); Micro 330 (7) or Zool 450 (5); Botany 340 (3) or Micro 340 (3) or Zool 340 (3). * if not taken as a required course. DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY Chair: Eugene G. Bozniak Location: Science Lab, Room SL402M Telephone Contact: Carrie Minnoch 626-6174 Lab Manager: 626-7533 Professors: Eugene G. Bozniak, Stephen L. Clark; Associate Professor: Suzanne Harley; Assistant Professors: James Farrar, Dawn Gatherum, Barbara Wachocki, Description While plants have intrigued and delighted people for thousands of years, they still remain undervalued and too little appreciated. We somehow manage to see a faint connection between plants and our basic needs of food, shelter, clothing, and energy, but only in a rather limited way. Remote connections are made, if any at all, between the history of exploration; present-day social, economic, and political conditions; and access to plants and plant products. Interest and understanding of plants is becoming much more intense. During the last few decades we have seen an unprecedented increase in the variety of plants and plant products available in our markets as the popularity of ethnic cuisines has grown. Also, worldwide, people are becoming increasingly aware of sound nutrition and the role plants play in our general health. We now appreciate plants as reservoirs of untold numbers of pharmaceuticals important in our war on diseases. These interests are stimulating our collective concerns about understanding the past, present, and future uses of plants. Recently we have begun to address our most serious problems, viz the loss of ecosystem integrity and habitats for animals dependent upon vegetation. This we have done through increased understanding of plants. We now know how valuable plants are in maintaining the health and stability of the global environment and that in its survival is the survival of the human species. Botany is the study of all aspects of plants, including systematics, morphology, diversity, metabolism, and ecology. Through a study of plants, students gain an understanding and an appreciation of life at the cellular, organismal, population, and community levels of organization. The study of Botany can lead to a variety of professional careers, including soil science, forestry, range management, biotechnology, plant breeding, horticulture, marine biology, environmental science, and teaching. The Botany Department at Weber State University offers undergraduate training in all areas of botany. After completing a lower division series of courses in general botany, an overview of the plant kingdom, and research design, students move on to upper division course work. The required upper division courses provide a core knowledge of the field of botany: anatomy, physiology, genetics, ecology, taxonomy, and plant diversity. The department also requires botany majors to develop a portfolio. The portfolio is a multidimensional collection of both student- and faculty-selected materials that are both developmental and representational in nature. Within the portfolio, students can document their acquisition of a variety of skills, including critical thinking, scientific reasoning, writing, speaking, and effective arguing. The portfolio is used for assessment purposes in addition to serving as an incentive to the student for developing good habits in assembling and organizing materials of relevance to themselves and others, such as personnel managers or graduate school selection committees. The department has also developed an undergraduate thesis program which provides a desirable capstone experience for many of the Botany majors. Individuals who choose to study botany fall into two broad groups: those who are interested in the qualitative or descriptive side of science and those who are more interested in the quantitative or analytical side. In order to serve both groups effectively, the Botany Department offers a Botany Major with either a Bachelor of Arts degree or a Bachelor of Science degree. The Botany requirements for both groups are the same, but the support courses are different because the students who work on these two degrees have different career goals. The B.A. emphasizes support courses in the humanities and social sciences and is quite open with regard to a minor. The B.S. emphasizes support courses in mathematics and chemistry and includes a chemistry minor. In addition to the Botany Major, the Department offers a Botany Teaching Major. In conjunction with a Zoology Teaching Minor, this program prepares individuals who are interested in teaching Biology at the secondary school level. The Botany and Zoology Departments also cooperate in offering a Biology Composite Teaching Major. The Botany Department also serves students who are interested in pre-professional programs: Pre-Agriculture, Pre-Horticulture, Pre-Forestry, and Pre-Range Management. After completing these programs at Weber State, students must continue their education at another institution in order to obtain baccalaureate degrees in these fields. The catalog of the school to which the student plans to transfer should be consulted as a guide in registering for courses at Weber State. The Botany Minor and the Botany Teaching Minor provide valuable support for students majoring in a variety of other fields, including geoscience and zoology. PROGRAM; PRE-AGRICULTURE AND PRE-HORTICULTURE TWO YEARS (NO DEGREE) Adviser: Eugene G. Bozniak Location: Sciences Bldg. SL402M Telephone: 626-6176 General Requirements: Follow the catalog of a university which offers a degree program in these fields for general requirements, etc. Specific Requirements: • Botany courses required (24 credit hours): Bot LSI 10 (5), 112 (4), 321 (5), 322 (4), and 362 (5). • Botany courses to elect from (9 hours): Bot 241 (4), 320 (5), 345 (5). • Support courses required: Chem PS111 (5), 112 (5), 113 (5);PhsxPS101 (5);GeoscPSlll (4), 112 (1); Math 106 (5); Zool 211 (5), 464 (5); Micro LSI 11 (5), 348 (5). PROGRAM: PRE-FORESTRY AND PRE-RANGE MANAGEMENT TWO YEARS (NO DEGREE) Adviser: Eugene Bozniak Location: Science Bldg. SL407M Telephone: 626-6176 General Requirements: Follow the catalog of a university which offers a bachelors degree in these fields for general requirements, etc. Specific Requirements: • Botany courses required (30 credit hours): Bot 103 (1), 104 (1), LSI 10 (5), 112 (4), 241 (4), 320 (5), 321 (5), 362 (5). • Support courses required (include the following courses in the basic area requirements): Math 105 (5), 106 (5), 107 (5);ChemPSlll (5), 112(5), 113 (5); Geosc PS111 (4), 112(1); Phsx PS101 (5);EconSS101 (5); Engl 111 (4), 112 (4); PE 3 credit hours. Support courses to elect from (ten hours): Soclgy SS101 (5); Psych SS 101 (5); Anthro SS 101 (5); Philo 116 (5). BIOTECHNICIAN TRAINING PROGRAM The Department of Botany participates with the Departments of Microbiology and Zoology in the Associate of Science degree and 3rd year Certificate in Biotechnician training for the biotechnology industry. HERBARIUM The Herbarium of Weber State is housed on the fourth floor of the Science Lab Building and contains more than 18,000 preserved plant specimens collected from Utah and the Western United States. This modern computerized collection serves as an important reference for students, faculty, biologists, and all others who need to know the identity of plants, or learn something about their geographic distributions and ecological associations. It also serves as the repository of the plants collected for the Institute of American Indian Botany. INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN BOTANY The Institute is dedicated to the study of American Indian Botany and provides a place where all of those who have interest can learn, conduct research, teach, and preserve for generations yet to come, this segment of our great American heritage. PROGRAM: BOTANY AND BOTANY TEACHING MAJOR BACHELOR DEGREE General Requirements: • WSU Core Requirements (see index). • General Education Requirements (see index). Note that the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Science have different general education requirements. • A minor is required. Botany majors getting a B.S. net to take Hist 341 (5) to meet the requirements for a minor in Chemistry. • Botany majors must have an overall GPA of 2.00 or higher in major courses and an overall GPA of 2.00 or higher. • 183 total hours are required for this degree. Sixty of the 183 total hours must be upper division (courses numbered 300 and above). BOTANY MAJOR BACHELOR DEGREE Specific Requirements: • Botany courses required (44-45 credit hours): Botany LS 110 (5), 112 (4), 298 (2), 310 (5), 320 (5), 330 (4), 345 (5), 362 (5), one of 350 (5) or 351 (5) or 411 (5), 490 (1), 495(2), and 497 (2) or 499(1). Student Services Interdisc. Programs Applied Science & Technology Arts& Humanities Business & Economics Education Health Professions Science Social & Behavioral Sciences 226 227 Continuing Education