Bi266a: Life On Earth

6 days ago


Waterloo, Canada Wilfrid Laurier University Full time

**Date**:Jun 25, 2024

**Location**: Waterloo, CA

**Company**:Wilfrid Laurier University

**Faculty/Academic Area**: Faculty of Science

**Department**: Biology

**Campus**: Waterloo

**Employee Group**: WLUFA

**Requisition ID**:8441

**Position Title**: BI266A: Life on Earth: Plants

**Term**: Fall 2024 (Sept. 1 - Dec. 31)

**Days/Times**: T, R 17:30 pm - 18:50 pm

**Hours per week/Hours Total**: 3 per week/36 total

**Type of Course**:On-Campus Lecture

**Anticipated Class Size**: 224

**Additional Course Requirements**: None

**Posted on**: June 25, 2024

**Posting ends**: July 7, 2024

**Position Summary**:
The course integrates three core themes in botany: 1) the role of plants in the development of the human civilization; 2) the diversity of form, structure, and function in relationship with the environment, and 3) the biodiversity, evolution, and conservation of vascular plants. Because botany studies plants at all the levels of organization, from molecules to ecosystems, its findings are used in a multitude of applied fields: agriculture, forestry, medicine, pharmacology, nutrition, biotechnology, conservation and environmental studies.

Learning Outcomes:

- An introduction to the incredibly diverse and dynamic science called botany or plant biology.
- Integrate the three core themes in botany: 1. Role of plants in the development of human civilization, 2. Diversity of form, structure, and function in relationship with the environment, 3. Biodiversity, evolution, and conservation of vascular plants.

Topics Covered:
Part 1 - Form, Structure, and Function: tissues, roots, stems, leaves, flowers, inflorescences, fertilization, fruits

Part 2 - Biodiversity and evolution: fundamentals of systematics, plant nomenclature and species concepts; evolution and diversity of major groups of plants on Earth (ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Part 3 - Plants and Civilization (ethnobotany): Plants as food, stimulating beverages, medicinal plants, psychoactive plants

**Qualifications - Required**: PhD in Biological Sciences

**Qualifications - Areas of Specialization**: Botany - plant form and function

**Salary**: $9206.40

**Application Deadline**: July 7, 2024

**Submit with Application**:
Required for All Applicants
- CV (required)

Required for External Applicants
- Names and Contact Information for Referees
- Evidence of Good Teaching
- Verification of highest degree

Optional
- Cover Letter
- Teaching Dossier
- Sample Course Outline (2-pages maximum)

**Applications may be addressed to**:
Dr. Matt Smith

Chair, Department of Biology

Wilfrid Laurier University

Waterloo, Ontario

**To Apply**:
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