General Botany

Botany 130

 

Text: The Biology of Plants by Raven, Evert and Eichhorn 7th edition

Lab Manual: Laboratory Topics for General Botany. Available through the Social Sciences copy shop.

 

 

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Introduction: General Botany (Botany 130) is a 5-credit hour lab-science course. It is taught both in the spring and the fall semesters. The lectures meet at 8:50 MWF and are team taught by a pair of professors. The labs meet twice a week and each lab are two hours. The discussion section is linked to the lab section and meets once a week for one hour. This site is here to give you some idea about the course, its content, and organization.

Organization: The site consists of three parts accessable from the directory.

I. General Course Information - this page.

II. Lecture Information: this includes the lecture schedule and exam schedule.

III. Laboratory Information: this includes the lab schedule from last semester, and a comprehensive pictoral review for each topic covered. It will also includes the actual topics in "pdf" (Adobe Acrobat) format which may be down-loaded and printed from last semester.

Questions about this site should be addressed to Mike Clayton: Rm. 120 Birge Hall, email: clayton@wisc.edu).

Our Teaching Staff: Nine people are dedicated to teaching General Botany - Two professors, the lab coordinator, and six teaching assistants. You may contact any of these people below via email by clicking on their names.

Instructors

 

Hiroshi Meada

 

Office: B217 Birge Hall

Office hours: Wed. 9:45 - 11:00 and Fri. 9:45 - 11:00

Office phone: 262 5833

email: maeda2 At wisc.edu

Eve Emshwiller

 

Office: Room 321 Birge Hall

Office hours: Friday

Office phone: 890 1170

email: emshwiller At wisc.edu

Michael Clayton

Lab Coordinator

Open Lab: Room 122 Friday from 10:00 - 1:00

Room 120 Birge Hall

Office phone: 262 2333

clayton@wisc.edu

Our Teaching Assistants

Soo Hyun Kim

Sections 308 & 309

Office: Room 349 Birge Hall

Office Hours: Monday 12:00 - 2:00

email: skim448@wisc.edu

Katie Van Gheem

Section 302

Office Hour:

Fridays 9:45 - 10:45 in Room 118 Birge Hall

email: kvangheem@wisc.edu

Brian Walsh

Sections 304, 310

Office: Room 319 Birge Hall

Office Hours: Wednesdays 10:00 - 12:00

email: bmwalsh@wisc.edu

Peter Tomasson

Sections 306, 307

Office:

Office Hours:

email: pthomasson@wisc.edu

Sam Schultz

Office:

Sections 301, 311

Office Hours:

email: sjschul2@wisc.edu

Rafael Arevalo

Office:

Sections 303, 305

Office Hours:

email: arevaloburba@wisc.edu

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