So, I have taken up the grant-writing process in hopes of funding my new classes on medicine, botany, ecology, and physcial science. The following ideas have been brainstormed:
1.) alternative medicine class
A class designed to address students' conception of nutrition, medicine, and chemistry. One question has come up as I read through the objectives for environmental science, chemistry, and health biology: how much emphasis should be on health in this class? There is so much information on botanicals in the literature, that I could really focus on active constituents in chemistry and get through a large amount of biochemical properties, including chromatography. But do I want to also emphasize cultural histories of medicine. I decided to take the approach that students are living in a rapidly changing world, and so therefore need access to the understanding of how "decisions in the use of new technologies in health care are influenced by social, economic, and personal factors." (BSCS, Insights in Biology). Especially the excerpt titled "Take Two Flowers and Call me in the Morning using curare, yew, croton and the periwinkle plant. And the gingko photo is in reference to the book "Herbs for the Mind" with St. John's wort (GABA, norephinephrine, serotonin, and 1 other neurotransmitter) , gingko, ginseng, etc.
2.) environmental toxins class
3.) sports medicine class - combined with Girls on the Run and chemistry of sports drinks, biology of muscles
4.) fire ecology
5.) garden genetics
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