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Course Catalog 01/02


Department of Education

PÄN034 Botany and the Green Classroom 7.5 ECTS credits

TIMEPERIOD:
Q4

LANGUAGE:English/Swedish

EXAMINER



PREREQUISITES
Applicants must have completed the courses PÄN400, PÄN403, PÄN404 and PÄN405 or equivalent basic course in biology.

COURSE AIM
The aims of the course are that students:
- acquire knowledge of systematic botany and taxonomy
- acquire knowledge of plant physiology and anatomy
- learn how to grow plants in a terrariums, green houses and gardens
- gain familiarity with laboratory work with plants as a teaching method


CONTENTS
Systematic botany, plant physiology, plant morphology, floristics, cultivated plants and plant geography.
Cultivation of plants in classrooms, green houses and gardens.


TEACHING
Lectures, lessons, group work, laboratory work and study visits.

EXAMINATION
Written and oral examination, individually and in group.
COURSE GRADE SCALE: Fail, Pass.

ITEMS/CREDITS
Assignments and laboratory work 3.00ECTS
Botany/exam 4.50ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE
Dahlgren, G (1985). Systematisk botanik. Malmö: Liber Förlag.
Hopkins, W G (1995). Introduction to Plant Physiology. ISBN 0-471-54547-3.
Åkerblom, P (1990). Skoträdgårdens ABC. Movium. ISBN 91-36-02963-7.

REFERENSLITTERATUR
Campbell, N A (1996). Biology, 4th ed. Benjamin/Cummings Publ. ISBN 0-8053-1957-3.
Chinery, M (1979). Amatörbiologen. P A Nordstedt & Söners Förl. ISBN 91-1-794092-3.
Hultén. Atlas över växternas utbredning i Norden.
Bestämningslitteratur & Kompendier.

REMARKS


Valid for the academic year 01/02.

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