This option is available within the Botany major at the following location:

• Corvallis

The Comprehensive Botany (CB) option is aimed at the student who wants broadly-based and high-level botanical knowledge and skills appropriate for botany careers and graduate education.

Option Code: 932

Upon successful completion of the program, students will meet the following learning outcomes:

• Communicate analysis of laboratory methods and experimental results.
• Explain interdisciplinary approaches used to determine the mechanisms that direct the flow of energy, materials and information in plant growth, development, and responses to external factors.
• Synthesize the complex network of biotic and abiotic interactions within ecosystems that determine energy flow, cycling of water, carbon, and nutrients and underlie local, regional, and global patterns in plant species richness and diversity.
• Identify and analyze the anatomical and morphological structures of plants that enable function and recognize structural differences between plant groups.
• Apply the diagnostic features of vascular plant groups to identify plant species and evaluate their phylogenetic relationships to understand the evolutionary origins of diversity and characters.

The Comprehensive Botany option requires 16–17 credits of 400-level BOT courses that provide a broad and sophisticated education in the five learning objectives of the botany core: structure, systematics, ecology, physiology, and genomics. These courses cover aquatic botany or phycology, a second course in non-vascular plants, plant population ecology, environmental physiology/photobiology, and genome-enabled plant biology. Students choose an additional 4–5 credits of course work with permission of the advisor. These courses may be BOT advanced courses or courses in other departments (e.g., BI, BB, CROP, CSS, HORT, PBG). Up to 3 credits of approved Experiential Learning can also be applied to the option.

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One elective may double count for Core Ed or a BOT major requirement, such as an additional quantitative skills course. Up to 3 credits of approved Experiential Learning (e.g., BOT 401) can be applied in this category

Option Code: 932