Course Schedule: Fall 2025

To see the reading list for a particular week, click on the topic name.

Date	Discussion Leader(s)	Topic
Sept 2	Keith	organizational meeting
Sept 9	Keith	Quantitative ethnobotany
Sept 16	Griffin	Early domestication of crop species
Sept 23	Catherine	Recreation impacts on native vegetation
Sept 30	Arthur	Cemeteries as conservation sites of plant biodiversity
Oct 7	Noah	Agricultural impacts on coral reefs
Oct 14	Tan	Urban ecology & cooling trees
Oct 21	FALL BREAK
Oct 28	Catherine	Human-introduced insect pest outbreaks
Nov 4	Noah	Genetically modified crops
Nov 11	Arthur	Atomic gardening (ion-beam mutagenesis in crop bereding)
Nov 18	Tan	TBD
Nov 25	Griffin	TBD
Dec 2