About the Medicinal and Economic Botany Certificate Program

The Medicinal and Economic Botany Certificate is designed to provide students with the fundamental knowledge and applications of medicinal and aromatic plants for human health. In a customizable curriculum, students learn about the traditional and practical uses of plants from different cultures, plant ecology, diversity and evolution, along with modern methods of cultivation and production of plants for various industries. 

The Medicinal and Economic Botany Certificate complements many SEBS majors such as Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Biological Sciences, Environmental and Business Economics, Public Health among others. 

Requirements for the Medicinal and Economic Botany Certificate Program (24 credits)

Recommended Prerequisites

General Biology and Laboratory – 01:119:115, 116, 117
General Chemistry – 01:160:161,162, 171

Required Courses (12 credits)

Introduction to Ethnobotany – 11:776:205 (3)
Introduction to Horticulture – 11:776:211 (3)
Plant Science – 11:776:242 (3)
Medicinal Plants – 11:776:312 (3)

Practical Experience (3 credits)

Special Problems in Plant Science (by arrangement): an advisor-approved internship focusing on an area of medicinal or economic botany – 11:776:495,496 (3)

Electives (9 credits)

Principles of Organic Crop Production – 11:776:221 (3)
General Plant Pathology – 11:776:302 (3)
Plant Propagation –11:776:310 (3)
Greenhouse Systems Management –11:776:321 (3)
Fruit Production –11:776:341 (3)
Fungi in the Environment –11:776:400 (3)
Fungi and Human Health –11:776:415 (3)
Plants and Human Health –11:776:438 (3)
Nursery Crop Production –11:776:439 (3)
Soil Fertility –11:776:440 (3) or equivalent
or other advisor-approved electives