| Course ID: | HORT(ENTO) 4770E/6770E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Discover the Wonderful World of Plants and Pollinators and Your Place in It - Service Learning |
Course
Description: | Discussion of the impact of urban systems on pollinator health
and the active role citizens can play in protecting pollinators.
Students will receive training on plant and pollinator insect
identification to better understand pollinator-plant
interactions, the importance of reducing pesticide inputs, and
creating a coexisting pollinator and plant habitat in the urban
matrix. |
| Oasis Title: | Plant Pollinator Your Place SL |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. Course includes a
service-learning project during the semester that either employs
skills or knowledge learned in the course or teaches new skills
or knowledge related to course objectives. Students will be
involved in the planning and implementation of the project(s)
and may spend time outside of the classroom. Students will be
engaged in the service-learning component for approximately 25-
50% of overall instructional time. |
| Prerequisite: | BIOL 1103 or BIOL 1103E or BIOL 1103H or BIOL 1104 or BIOL 1104H or BIOL 1107 or BIOL 1107E or BIOL 1107H or BIOL 1108 or BIOL 1108H or PBIO 1210 or PBIO 1220 or HORT 2000 or HORT 2000E |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered summer semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | 1. To introduce students to arthropod-mediated ecosystem
services (AMES), pollinator health, pollinator-plant
interactions, and pollinator habitat enhancement.
2. To train students to identify floral resources provided by
common landscape plants, including native and non-native
exotics, and to recognize most common pollinators.
3. To introduce students to best management practices and
integrated pest management, with emphasis on urban environments.
4. To engage students on grand challenges in pollinator
protection and conservation, with emphasis on floral resource
establishment in the residential matrix.
5. To execute a service-learning project in collaboration with a
community partner that applies knowledge learned in the course. |
| Topical Outline: | 1. Current federal, state, and county policies and regulations
for pollinator protection.
2. Key annual and perennial pollinator-attracting plants;
dietary aspects of floral resources, perennial plant attributes
as larval hosts, nesting, and overwintering habitats.
3. BMPs for plant establishment and culture; native plants and
non-native exotics.
4. Pollinator arthropod identification and taxonomy.
5. Pollinator habitat enhancement and functional ecology for
pollinator conservation: overwintering/sheltering location,
provisioning floral and forage resources, proper pesticide
use, pollinator nesting.
6. Pollinator/plant “partnership” and citizen involvement in
pollinating arthropod conservation and protection.
7. Case studies of arthropod-mediated ecosystem services
(AMEs) and habitat management approaches being successfully
implemented nationally and statewide (pollinator spaces,
pollinator census). |
| Honor Code Reference: | UGA takes academic integrity seriously. It is expected that each
student will do his/her own work. Academic dishonesty, including
any form of plagiarism or cheating will not be tolerated.
Students who commit any act of academic dishonesty may receive a
failing grade in that portion of the course work in which the
act is detected or a failing grade in the course without
possibility of withdrawal. All students are responsible for
knowing the University’s policy on academic honesty. All
academic work submitted in this course must be your own unless
you have received my permission to collaborate and have properly
acknowledged receiving assistance. Any group activities, such as
informal discussion groups (e.g., GroupMe) not hosted in eLC
will be allowed only with instructor's permission and if the
instructor is a participant. |