Comprehensive Botany Option
This option is offered within the following major(s):
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
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.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| Plant Structure/Diversity/Systematics | ||
| BOT 416 | AQUATIC BOTANY | 4 |
| or BOT 417 | PHYCOLOGY | |
| BOT 461 | MYCOLOGY | 4 |
| or BOT 465 | LICHENOLOGY | |
| or BOT 466 | BRYOLOGY | |
| Plant Ecology | ||
| BOT 445 | ADVANCED PLANT ECOLOGY | 3 |
| Plant Physiology/Biochemistry | ||
| BOT 480 | PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND PHOTOBIOLOGY | 3 |
| or BOT 488 | ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY OF PLANTS | |
| Plant Genomics | ||
| BDS 474 | INTRODUCTION TO GENOME BIOLOGY | 3-4 |
| or BDS 475 | COMPARATIVE GENOMICS | |
| or BDS 477 | POPULATION GENOMICS | |
| or BDS 478 | FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS | |
| Electives | ||
| Select 4-5 credits from BOT or other courses with permission of advisor 1 | 4-5 | |
| Total Credits | 21-23 | |
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One elective may double count for another BCC or BOT requirement, such as a Bacc Core synthesis course or an additional quantitative skills class. Up to 3 credits of approved Experiential Learning (e.g., BOT 401) can be applied in this category
Option Code: 932