| Morton Arboretum
ACCA/Morton Cooperative College Botany
Program
(Agreement attached below)
Contact: Megan Dunning
mdunning@mortonarb.org
630 725 2101
 College Botany Program
College credit is available through 15 Chicago area colleges
and universities for a variety of botany courses offered
throughout the year at The Morton Arboretum. The courses are
arranged under the auspices of the Associated Colleges of the
Chicago Area (ACCA) Cooperative College Botany Program.
Please contact your schools registrar for specific
registration information.
The
Summer 2008 course is:
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COLLEGE
BOTANY PROGRAM
Course
Offering for Summer 2008
The
Morton Arboretum & Associated Colleges of the
Chicago
Area (ACCA)
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PLANT COMMUNITY ECOLOGY
An understanding of plant community
ecology is central to sound decisions in natural resource
management. This course will develop an understanding of the
ways in which plants interact with each other and with other
organisms through the processes of competition, herbivory
and disease. Through hypothesis-driven field studies, we
will explore how theories in community ecology are developed
and tested. These
studies will utilize standard ecological methods for data
collection and analysis to answer questions about plant
community composition and distribution. Through classroom
and field study, students will develop the theoretical
background and skills in its application to understand and
interpret the ecology of different types of communities,
including aquatic systems, found in the
Upper Midwest
. Students will take field trips in
Illinois
,
Indiana
, southwest
Michigan
and southern
Wisconsin
to collect quantitative data on the different plant
populations and communities in this region, and on the
ecophysiological, population and community processes of the
dominant plants. The course assumes that the students have
an understanding of basic ecological concepts and
terminology.
Instructor:
D. Liane Cochran-Stafira, Ph.D
Department
of Biological Sciences,
Saint
Xavier
University
3700 West 103rd Street
Chicago
,
IL
60655
773-298-3514
e-mail:
cochran@sxu.edu
http://faculty.sxu.edu/~cochran/
Prerequisites:
One course in General Botany or Ecology
Credits:
4 semester hours (or equivalent) graduate or
undergraduate
Time:
June 2 through July 28.
Lectures:
Mondays,
6 9 pm
.
Laboratories:
Saturdays,
9 am 1 pm
. Some weeks
will included longer (all day trips); these will count as
two labs, and students will not have a lab in the following
week.
Place:
The
Morton
Arboretum
Research
Center
4100 Illinois Route
53
Lisle
,
Illinois
60532
Texts:
J. Gurevitch, S.M. Scheiner, and G.A. Fox, 2006. The
Ecology of Plants,
2nd edition. SinauerAssociates.
Brower J.E., J.H. Zar, and C. von Ende.
1999. Field
and Laboratory Methods in General Ecology, 4th
edition. McGraw-Hill.
Supplies: Write
in Rain Field Notebook.
Folding Pocket Magnifiers
Registration:
Students can register through any of the ACCA member
schools where they wish to receive credit.
Graduate credit is available through
Aurora
University
. Additional
information is available from Megan Dunning at the Morton
Arboretum (630-725-2101).
Course
Offering for Fall 2008
The
Morton Arboretum & Associated Colleges of the Chicago
Area (ACCA)
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INTRODUCTION
TO SOIL SCIENCE
This course serves as an introduction to
soil science. The course will have four sections: basic
principles of soil science, soil physics, soil biology and
soil chemistry. The interactions between organisms,
environments, and soil will be discussed lecture and
laboratory sessions. Students will be introduced to soil
science and will have the opportunity to conduct a science
experiment and review a scientific paper related to this
topic. Students
will also get hands-on experience during a field day exercise.
Prerequisite:
General Biology and College Chemistry, or consent of
instructor
Credit:
4 semester hours (or equivalent), undergraduate or
graduate
Location:
The
Morton
Arboretum
Research
Center
, Botany Lab
4100 Illinois Route
53
Lisle
,
IL
60532
Dates:
Mondays & Wednesdays, September 15 November
24,
6:30 - 9:30 pm
Saturday,
October 4,
8am 4:30pm
Instructors:
Bryant Scharenbroch (The Morton Arboretum)
Rebecca
Trueman (
Concordia
University
)
Text:
Brady
,
N.C.
and R. Weil. 2006. The Nature and Properties of Soils.
14th
Ed. Upper Saddle River
,
New Jersey
; Prentice Hall.
Registration:
Students can register through any of the ACCA member
schools where they wish to receive credit.
Graduate credit is available through
Aurora
University
. Additional
information is available from Megan Dunning at the Morton
Arboretum (630-725-2101).
Past Courses
Summer 2007
WOODY PLANTS OF THE
WESTERN GREAT LAKES
REGION
Jaime Weber, M.S., Research Assistant, The Morton Arboretum
An introduction to the identification
of the woody flora of the western
Great Lakes
region. Class includes both native and naturalized plants,
as well as important woody landscape plants, and covers
basic taxonomic principles. In the laboratory, examine
fresh-cut and herbarium specimens. In Arboretum collections
and natural areas, examine plants and practice field
identification. On daylong field trips to regional natural
areas, learn habitat preferences of the plants studied.
♦Wednesdays,
Sept. 19
Dec. 5; 6:30
9:30 pm; and Saturdays, Sept. 22 Dec. 1; 9 am noon, laboratory and field work. Botany Lab,
Research
Center
.
Prerequisite:
General Botany or consent of the instructor
Credit:
4 semester hours (or equivalent), undergraduate
Past Courses -
The Summer 2006
course is:
PLANT ECOLOGY
Dr.
Thomas Simpson,
Field Station Ecologist, McHenry County Conservation
District
Plant Ecology studies adaptations of
plants to various environments, properties of plant
populations and plant communities, and the ways these function
in various ecosystems. This course will emphasize terrestrial
flowering plant ecology. Lectures, discussions, and fieldwork
will explore the ways plants are influenced by and in turn
influence both the abiotic and biotic components of their
environments.
Tuesdays
& Thursdays, May 30 July 20; 6:30 - 9:00 pm; plus Saturdays, June 3, 24, and July 1; 9 am 5 pm, laboratory and
field work. Botany Lab, Research Center, The Morton Arboretum,
4100 Illinois Route 53,
Lisle, Illinois 60532.
Prerequisite:
General botany or permission of instructor.
Credit:
4 semester hours (or equivalent), undergraduate or graduate.
The
Fall 2006 course is:
WOODY
PLANTS OF THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES REGION
Edward Hedborn, M.S., Plant Recorder, The Morton Arboretum
An introduction to the identification of
the woody flora of the western Great Lakes region. Class
includes both native and naturalized plants, as well as
important woody landscape plants, and covers basic taxonomic
principles. In the laboratory, you will examine fresh-cut and
herbarium specimens. In Arboretum collections and natural
areas, you will examine plants and practice field
identification. On daylong field trips to regional natural
areas, learn habitat preferences of the plants studied.
♦Wednesdays,
Sept. 13
Nov. 15; 6:30
9:30 pm; and Saturdays, Sept. 16 Nov. 18; no class 10/14, 10/21, 11/11; 9 am
noon. The Morton Arboretum, 4100 Illinois Route 53, Lisle, Illinois 60532.
Prerequisite:
General Botany or consent of the instructor
Credit:
4 semester hours (or equivalent), undergraduate
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