Urban Agriculture: Gardening for Change

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Overview

Subject area

BIO

Catalog Number

242

Course Title

Urban Agriculture: Gardening for Change

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

Course Schedule