BIS 2B/BIO 1 Introduction to Biology: Principles of Ecology & Evolution: Introduction to basic principles of ecology and evolutionary biology, focusing on the fundamental mechanisms that generate and maintain biological diversity across scales ranging from molecules and genes to global processes and patterns. Offered every quarter.
EVE/PLB/PLS 127 Systematics of Vascular Plants: Diversity, phylogeny, and taxonomy of lycophytes, ferns, and seed plants (gymnosperms and angiosperms), emphasizing relationships and distinguishing characteristics of families and genera represented in the California flora. Principles and methods of phylogeny reconstruction, classification, and plant nomenclature. Practice identifying plants to species using taxonomic keys (formerly PLS 102 and EVE/PLB 108).
PLS 141 Ethnobotany: Relationships and interactions between plants and people, including human perceptions, management, and uses of plants, influences of plants on human cultures, and effects of human activity on plant ecology and evolution. Concepts, questions, methods, and ethical considerations in ethnobotanical research. Offered Winter quarter every year.
PLS 148 Flora of Northern California's Mountains: Diversity, taxonomy, ecology, evolution, and traditional cultural importance of the flora of the Cascade and Klamath mountain ranges. Conservation and management issues. Legal and ethical responsibilities of field botanists. Hands-on botanical field methods including plant identification, characterization of vegetation types, and rare plant surveys. Field course offered for two weeks in the summer, based at Lassen Volcanic National Park.
PBI 200A Genetics and Evolution: The first of three Plant Biology Graduate Group graduate core courses. Coverage includes (1) plant genes, (2) biotechnology, (3) genomes and gene flow, (4) principles of plant systematics, and (5) the evolution of flowering plants. Dan Potter teaches the section on the evolution of flowering plants. Offered Fall Quarter every year.