Category: Course Offering

BC SPCA – Community Outreach (Vancouver, BC)

One practicum opportunity available: 6-credit part-time in-person (Sept-Dec 2021) working with Charlie’s Food Bank and clients who face barriers due to mental health issues, drug addiction and/or financial issues while trying to care for their pet. The student shall learn approaches to supporting and managing the health and welfare of animals in this unique community on the Downtown Eastside. Must be available Thursdays from 8am-1pm weekly and other hours are flexible. Email cover letter and resume to Diane Waters, Outreach Specialist, dwaters@spca.bc.ca Applications due Sept 15.

https://wiki.ubc.ca/Course:APBI496

APBI 326 (Introductory Plant Pathology)

Course instructor: Gurcharn Brar

Brief description for the course:

APBI 326 (Introductory Plant Pathology) – The course is a very practical and hands-on course about plant diseases and their management.  For the most part, the course will discuss diseases of crop plants or economical plants relevant to BC and Canada.  The course introduces you with the different types of pathogens, their life and disease cycles and their mode of attacking plants.  The course will be very helpful for students if they want to work for CFIA, AAFC, Environment Canada or plant industry jobs after graduation.

See the syllabus here.

 

Topics in History – HIST AGRICULTURE- HIST 390B 201

Interested in food production and its social and political implications?  HIST 390B, The Roots of Power, is a student directed seminar about the history of modern agriculture. It examines the intersection between history, geography, agricultural biopower, and colonialism.

The student coordinators Zach Crouch and Geneviève Dubuc chose bananas to represent the course because “bananas are a signature imperial commodity that everyone eats…[and have] deeper roots in historical narratives of power.”  More generally, the course ranges beyond bananas to explore multiple commodities, as well as the landscapes, political and economic systems, power relations, and historical legacies that have shaped what we eat and how we acquire those products.

Register for the course today to dig deeply into race and agriculture, imperial commodities, and the modern agricultural apparatus: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/courseschedule?pname=subjarea&tname=subj-section&dept=HIST&course=390B&section=201

 

APBI 490-201 Plant water relations for sustainable agriculture

Instructor: Thorsten Knipfer

Ongoing climate change causes unprecedented challenges for agriculture. To ensure food security, the modern farmers requires knowledge about crop water requirements to avoid losses in yield and quality caused by drought or waterlogging. This course will provide undergraduate students an introduction of how plant-water relations and associated physiological mechanisms determine plant hydration status from cell to whole-plant level and inform precision irrigation strategies. This course will introduce students into cutting-edge techniques and tools to determine plant water status in the laboratory and field, and provide the conceptual background about plant-water relations as necessary to implement sustainable crop management strategies and improve genotype selection.

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