The medicinal and economic botany certificate is designed for students with an interest in the practical uses of plants, both known and yet to be discovered. The program requires a basic knowledge of biology and chemistry, but is available to students in a variety of majors, such as anthropology, conservation biology, or environmental education.
The program emphasizes historical and cultural botany, modern medicinal plants, and practical plant production and concludes with research or field experience.
For more information, contact Dr. James F. White, Foran Hall, Room 263, 732-932-9711, ext. 348 or jwhite@plantbio.rutgers.edu.
Prerequisites: 01:119:101-102 General Biology (4,4); 01:160:161-162 General Chemistry (4,4); 01:160:171 Introduction to Experimentation (1)
Required courses (15)
11:776:205 Introduction to Ethnobotany (3)
11:776:211 Introduction to Horticulture (3)
11:776:242 Plant Science (3)
11:776:312 Medicinal Plants (3)
11:776:495 Special Problems in Plant Science (3): an adviser-approved internship focusing on an area of medicinal or economic botany
Electives (9-10)
11:776:221 Principles of Organic Crop Production (3)
11:776:301 General Plant Pathology (3)
11:776:310 Plant Propagation (3)
11:776:321 Greenhouse Management and Crop Production (3)
11:776:341 Fruit Production (3)
11:776:402 Mycology: Fungi in the Environment (3)
11:776:439 Nursery Crop Production (3)
11:776:440 Soil Fertility (3) or equivalent
11:776:496 Special Problems in Plant Science (4)
Adviser-approved electives
