The Environmental & Plant Biology Department offers summer courses online and on campus, with many filling general education Tier II requirements for Ohio University students.
PBIO 1000 Plants and the Global Environment
Tier II Natural Sciences
Class #1999 | First Summer Session
Description: (for nonscience majors) This course examines the importance of plants in providing global resources for humans and the impact of human activity on the sustainability of these resources. It places a particular focus on the importance of climate and energy policy as they relate to our uses of plants and the impact that changing climate would be expected to have on plants.
PBIO 1030 Plants and People ONLINE
Tier II Applied Science & Mathematics
Class #2000 (section 100) | First Summer Session
Class #2001 (section 101) | Second Summer Session
Description: This course examines the interrelationships of plants and humans from both historical and modern points of view, origins of agriculture and civilization, tropical and temperate food plants, medicinal plants, drug plants, and the destruction of environment and its ultimate effect on food plants.
PBIO 1090 Americans and their Forests ONLINE
Tier II Natural Sciences
Class #1998 | First Summer Session
Description: This course provides an understanding of modern forests encompassing both recent and long-term effects arising from natural and human causes. The pattern and character of forest utilization will be interpreted in terms of varied cultural experiences in different regions and times.
PBIO 2060 Sustainable Agriculture
Tier II Applied Science & Mathematics
Class #2005 and 2006 | First Summer Session
Description: This course is an investigation of global and local agriculture with an emphasis on small-scale, highly diversified agriculture and local food systems as a synthesis of human activities. Agriculture is considered to include the production from plants of food, fiber, fuel, building materials, and medicines. Students gain direct experience with agriculture by growing an organic garden, preparing compost and testing soils, harvesting crops, seed saving and visiting local farms.
PBIO 2470 Biomes of the World ONLINE
Tier II Natural Sciences
Class #2002 | Second Summer Session
Description: This is a detailed survey of biomes around the world. Broad characterization of each ecosystem globally is coupled with details on representative protected areas for each biome in North America. Emphasis is placed on geologic and ecological processes determining vegetation zones and the plant and animal species characteristic of each biome. Conservation issues, human impacts, and products for human use, are discussed throughout the course.
PBIO 3030 Medicinal Plants of Ohio
Class # 5838 (section 101) | Second Summer Session | Two-week course June 27-July 7
Description: This summer workshop features identification, history and uses of medicinal plants; characteristics of herb families; and preparation of simple herbal remedies. Field trips are to conifer woods, flood plain, cove forest, wetland, and commercial herb-growing establishment.
Philosophy
PHIL 2160 Philosophy of Science Survey ONLINE
Tier II Humanities & Literature
Class #2467 | Full Summer Session
Description: This course is a nontechnical survey of types, testing, and credibility of hypotheses; methods of experimental inquiry; measurement; and laws, theories and their role in explanation, concept formation.
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