| Course Title: Green-Colored Glasses: A Botanical Lens into Our Lives |
| Start Date: 09/03/2025 End Date: 12/16/2025 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2025 |
| Description: How does your life intersect with plants? In this seminar we will engage this question using essays, popular media, and our own observations to illuminate historical and contemporary connections between plants and humans. Inside the classroom and in the outdoors, we will carefully examine our own plant awareness, develop our critical thinking, and challenge our perceptions of the impacts and roles of plants throughout human history. |
| Distribution(s): NO - Meets No Distrib. Rqmt , FY - First-Year Seminar , WI - Writing-Intensive |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Chloe Drummond | 413-538-2573 | cdrummond@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/03/2025 - 12/16/2025 | Seminar | Tuesday and Thursday | 09:00AM - 10:15AM | CLAP - Clapp Laboratory | 225 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| FYSEM0001 | First-Year Seminar | This is a First-Year Seminar. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 12 | Enrollment: 18 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism Author: Subramaniam, Banu Copyright: 2024 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780295752457 Publisher: University of Washington Press |
Optional | 30.00 |
| Title: These Trees Tell a Story Author: Charney, Noah Copyright: 2023 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780300230895 Publisher: Yale University Press |
Optional | 30.00 |
| Title: Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses Author: Kimmerer, Robin Wall Copyright: 2003 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780870714993 Publisher: Oregon State University Press |
Optional | 18.95 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: All three of these books are available in ebook format from the MHC library, so purchasing a copy is not required. |