Far Beyond Ithaca (FBI): Plant Explorations

Catalog description

Sections in this course prepare students for faculty-led winter-session travel courses offered through the School of Integrative Plant Science. Students spend seven class sessions in the fall focusing on a particular challenge in plant sciences, such as climate change and the spread of plant diseases, drought and viticulture, and the tension between biodiversity, species conservation and large-scale agriculture. Students then enroll in the complementary winter-session course and travel to a domestic or international locale where they engage with communities confronting and working to solve these challenges today.