Urban Agriculture: Gardening for Change
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Overview
Subject area
BIO
Catalog Number
242
Course Title
Urban Agriculture: Gardening for Change
Department(s)
Description
Planting and maintaining a vegetable garden on Lehman’s campus. Students will gain familiarity with plants both in lecture and a field-based lab while exploring issues of food insecurity, alternative agricultural systems, biodiversity, the preservation of landraces and rare cultivars, ethnobotany, and environmental racism. Prerequisites: BIO 166 and BIO 167.
Typically Offered
Fall, Spring
Academic Career
Undergraduate
Liberal Arts
Yes
Credits
Minimum Units
4
Maximum Units
4
Academic Progress Units
4
Repeat For Credit
No
Components
Name
Laboratory
Hours
4
Name
Lecture
Hours
2
Requisites
010905