This program is available at the following locations:

• Corvallis
• Ecampus

This minor is designed for students pursuing degrees in other fields that require a knowledge of plant biology.

Minor Code: 515

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.

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 Excluding BOT 101 but may include BOT 401, BOT 405, BOT 407, BOT 410

The minor requirements listed above are subject to the following constraints:

• Courses required for a major and taken in the major department may not count toward a minor.
• An individual course may not count toward more than one minor.
• At least 12 credits of the minor must be upper division.

Minor Code: 515