scholarly journals 571 Undergraduate and Graduate Curriculum in Public Horticulture at The University of Tennessee

HortScience ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 494D-494
Author(s):  
Susan L. Hamilton ◽  
Mary L. Albrecht
Keyword(s):  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Grant Writing ◽  
Public Horticulture ◽  
University Of Tennessee ◽  
The Public ◽  
Graduate Curriculum ◽  
Ornamental Horticulture ◽  
Management Students ◽  
Career Options

Students wanting to prepare for a career in public horticulture can now enroll in a new undergraduate and graduate curriculum at the Univ. of Tennessee. Beginning fall semester, 1999, students enrolled in the Dept. of Ornamental Horticulture and Landscape Design (OHLD) can opt to follow the new Public Horticulture concentration in the ornamental horticulture and landscape design major. The Public Horticulture concentration was the result of a year-long curriculum revision that reflects growth in career options in horticulture. The goal of the Public Horticulture concentration is to prepare students for careers that promote horticulture and emphasize people and their education and enjoyment of plants. Such careers include director of a botanical garden, arboretum, or park; city or urban horticulturist; extension agent, teacher, educational director, or program coordinator; professional garden writer/editor or publication manager; horticulture therapist; public garden curator; and plant collections manager. The Public Horticulture concentration allows students to take a breadth of ornamental horticulture courses, five of which are specific to public horticulture, along with supporting course work in soils, entomology, plant pathology, and botany, while providing the opportunity for students to take electives in education, extension, public administration, grant writing, museology, psychology, information sciences, journalism, and management. Students also complete an internship for graduation and have the opportunity to work in the Univ. of Tennessee Inst. of Agriculture Gardens.

scholarly journals The Roles of the University of Tennessee Gardens in a Public Horticulture Teaching Program

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 552-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan L. Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Special Problem ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Plant Identification ◽  
Public Horticulture ◽  
University Of Tennessee ◽  
The Public ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
Garden Writing ◽  
The University

The University of Tennessee's undergraduate and graduate public horticulture concentrations are new programs designed to prepare individuals for careers in public horticulture that emphasize people and their education and enjoyment of plants. These new programs could not exist without the educational resources of the university's gardens. The gardens play a variety of roles in supporting faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students in these programs. The gardens serve as an outdoor laboratory and classroom and provide on-campus opportunities for the following teaching and learning activities: plant identification; plant photography; garden design; plant use; garden maintenance internships; special problem topics (e.g., production of annual variety trials, planting and labeling trials, writing garden literature, and creating interpretive displays); mapping and cataloging plants; and garden writing. Only through a university-based garden could opportunities to engage students in such meaningful learning experiences occur providing them with the competitive edge for entering the public horticulture field.

scholarly journals Poisonous and Narcotic Flora in the Gaza Strip-Palestine / A Review

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Akram Atalla ◽  
Ayman Dardona
Keyword(s):  
Herbal Medicine ◽  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Poisonous Plants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current Article ◽  
The Gaza Strip ◽  
The University

There are numerous known medicinal plants in the Gaza strip flora, some of them are used in the traditional medicine but despite extensive studies of plants either wild or cultivated in Palestine, only a few articles are reported with the phytochemistry of these plants especially the poisonous flora. The current article presents the most common and important poisoning plants in the Gaza strip flora which are therefore important for the public to know and for research and awareness. This review is considered the first study that working in some details with the poisonous plants in the Gaza strip flora in terms of botany, phytochemistry and herbal medicine. These plants are distributed in several habitats in the Gaza strip, including Wadi Gaza, coastal areas, dunes, roadsides, national parks and the botanical garden in the University of Palestine.

scholarly journals The Sarracenia Pitcher Plants and Bog Gardening

2008 ◽  
pp. 79-99
Author(s):  
T Lawrence Mellichamp
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Extra Dimension ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Short Note ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Carnivorous Plants ◽  
Pitcher Plants ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World

The Sarracenia pitcher plants are among the world’s most beautiful and intriguing plants, and being carnivorous adds an extra dimension of fascination. They are endemic to North America – 10 species are found only in the southeastern United States and one species is widely distributed, from the northeastern US and across Canada. They are easy to cultivate if you understand their basic needs and are grown the world over. Every botanical garden should have them because they are so popular with the public. They go hand-in-hand with other unusual carnivorous plants to make a display that is captivating (puns intended!) to both children and adults. This paper covers types of pitcher plants, their habitats, brief descriptions of the species, a key to identification, cultivation and a short note on conservation.

scholarly journals Assessing species resistance and productivity of the genus Paeonia L. under adaptation to continental climate conditions

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 00024
Author(s):  
Olga Komina
Keyword(s):  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Species Selection ◽  
Herbaceous Species ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
Siberian Branch ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Continental Climate ◽  
Assessment Results

The paper presents results of multiyear work to create and study the collection of Paeonia L. species in the Central Siberian Botanical Garden of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (CSBG SB RAS) (Novosibirsk), which numbers 13 species of 4 botanical sections nowadays. All herbaceous species of the genus Paeonia, both geophytes and hemicryptophytes, have been safely wintered during 12 years without additional shelter. The study shows assessment results of prospects of the genus Paeonia species representatives. It gives recommendations on landscape design for Paeonia species selection.

De-disciplining humanity: the humanities’ case for Critical Management Literacy

2020 ◽  
pp. 135050762095815
Author(s):  
Ulrike Landfester ◽  
Jörg Metelmann
Keyword(s):  
Management Education ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Public ◽  
Conceptual Dimension ◽  
Disciplinary Identity ◽  
Critical Management ◽  
Management Students ◽  
Promising Development ◽  
Specific Contribution

From the point of view of the humanities, it is a very promising development that management studies have recently turned to the humanities in the quest for competences which are perceived by both managers and the public to be sadly lacking in management education. From the point of view of management studies, however, humanities’ scholars usually fall equally sadly short of teaching those competences to management students in a manner designed to convey what, exactly, those competences are and why they should need them. Our article seeks to negotiate the gap between the two disciplinary domains by introducing a concept of Critical Management Literacy which is designed to communicate the humanities’ specific contribution to management studies. Applying this concept to the humanities, we argue that the humanities are uniquely suited to help overcome the disciplinary segregation of knowledge by teaching that humanity is not an ontologically pre-stabilised entity that can be owned by any discipline; rather, it is an epistemological construct which varies according to the contexts it is developed and used in. The type of knowledge the humanities offer makes this conceptual dimension visible, which we claim is intrinsically important to management education. To offer access to this knowledge to management studies, however, the humanities will definitively have to revise their understanding of their disciplinary identity to some extent.

Architectural Research with Initial Exploration on New Chinese-Style Landscape Design Method

2014 ◽  
Vol 1046 ◽  
pp. 144-147
Author(s):  
Yang Wang ◽  
Yan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Design Method ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Design Methods ◽  
Related Concept ◽  
The Public ◽  
Architectural Research ◽  
Constant Improvement ◽  
Initial Exploration

With the increasingly distinct pursuit of traditional culture by the public, the new Chinese-style landscape will be a development trend with constant improvement, playing a motivated role in a city, even a country. This paper conducts an analysis on the related concept and elements of new Chinese-style landscape and proposes the design methods of new Chinese-style landscape, to create a new design featuring the period feel and sense of nationality, with better integration and inheritance between tradition and modernity.

Advocating Service Learning for Developing Citizenship in University Students in South Africa

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nirmala Dorasamy ◽  
Soma Pillay
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The Public ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Public Servant ◽  
Management Students

An effective and efficient public sector is largely dependent on employees who accept the responsibility for providing high-quality public services. It can be argued that public management students, as future employees in the public sector, need to be educated for responsible citizenship. Higher education institutions in South Africa are expected to promote social and economic development, and service learning can serve as a catalyst for developing responsible citizenship among public management students. This article investigates how service learning, as an experiential form of learning which has its roots in community service, meets community needs, enhances teaching and learning and contributes towards responsible citizenship. The extent to which service learning in public management as a discipline has been adopted by universities of technology in South Africa is also explored. It is argued that while public management students are expected to engage in experiential learning in the public sector, community-based learning should be included as a compulsory component of experiential learning. The authors suggest that service learning can make a significant contribution to socially responsible citizenship, an important value underpinning any public servant.

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