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 scientific concepts, experimental results and analytical arguments clearly and concisely verbally and in writing.
• Apply scientific methods, reasoning and appropriate mathematics to describe, explain and understand biological systems.
• Demonstrate understanding of five core concepts in biology: evolution; pathways and transformations of energy and matter; information flow, exchange, and storage; structure and function; and biological systems.
• Use interdisciplinary approaches (applying chemistry and quantitative skills) to work on biological problems.
• Describe the complex networks of interactions that determine energy flow and the cycling of water, carbon, nitrogen, and minerals within ecosystems.
• Identify and analyze the anatomical and morphological features of plants and plant structures as they enable plant function and reveal plant evolutionary histories. 
• Recognize and describe the features of vascular plant groups using standard botanical terminology. Interpret the evolutionary and phylogenetic relationships of plants by evaluating analytical and experimental tools used to understand organismal diversity. 
• Incorporate information from physiology, genetics, developmental biology, biochemistry and genomics to explain how plants integrate water-relations, mineral and organic nutrition, solute transport, respiration and photosynthesis, hormonal and environmental signals to regulate the processes of growth and reproduction.
• Describe and implement laboratory methods typically used in plant biology.

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 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