One credit

Course access information to be sent directly to students by email.
All assignments due by Monday May 5, 2008.

meetings: none, completely online (non WebCT), at student's own pace and timing

Objectives:

1.  learn how to care for houseplants
2.  learn how to recognize the more common foliage and flowering plants, or cut flowers, you see in malls, stores, and restaurants, or that you may use at home
Whether you are looking to become a green industry professional, or just grow plants at home, this course provides the basics of design, plant care, and plant problems.

This completely online course (access here) combines lecture notes and specific details on about 90 indoor plants. Extensive descriptions, cultural information, and lists of species and cultivars are given for key plants in groups such as foliage, cacti, succulents, orchids, cut flowers, and flowering potted plants. Quizzes, plant identification quizzes, and exercises are taken online (not WebCT based). They are open book, designed to test and reinforce your familiarity with and ability to use the extensive content, and to reinforce key plants, plant features and topics. Email contact between professor and students is used as needed and to share information, and to provide course website login details to registered students at the beginning of the semester. This syllabus, and the initial email from the professor with course details, will serve as your contract for the course and should be read thoroughly.

Assignments
(1500 maximum points for course, grades determined on standard 10 point scale ie 90-100=A, 80-89=B, etc.)

content quizzes (6, 100 points each) 600 points
ID quizzes (3, 100 points each) 300 points
Final 200 points
Final ID 200 points
Exercises (2, 100 points each) 200 points

Click here to access secure course site with appropriate passwords sent by email. 

"It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education ... is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks."-- Albert Einstein