Urban Naturalist Certificate Electives

Elective course offerings vary with every catalog season. Browse this page to discover what's currently scheduled. Students in pursuit of a Certificate must complete at least 30 elective course hours.


March

Why do some species have smooth bark, while on others it is thick and broken? Why does bark peel? The traits typically used to describe trees—leaves, twigs, and buds—are often hard to see or seasonally absent. Bark, on the other more...
263BOT426 03/21 Sa 10:30am-3:30pm Wojtech
NYBG

April

Build your confidence and ability to discover the normally invisible (& fascinating!) aspects of plants, fungi, lichens, slime molds, spores, and other plant specimens using microscopes. In this course, you'll learn the optical principles of microscopy and become comfortable with more...
264BOT398 04/10 Fr 11:00am-2:00pm Sadowski
NYBG

For as long as people have been writing, nature has been a major preoccupation of writers of all kinds. Explore the history and craft of nature writing as you review works ranging from the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh to modern more...
264NAT351BL 04/16 Th 5:30pm-7:30pm Jacobs
BLENDED

Explore the basics of ethnobotany, supplemented by stories and data gleaned from his own fieldwork. Discover how selected plant resources are used by traditional and postindustrial cultures today, as well as how plants have been used historically for healing and more...
264BOT344O 04/19 Su 10:00am-12:00pm Halane
ONLINE

As the mushroom season awakens, discover how and where to hunt for Oysters, Inky Caps, Wine Caps, Dryad's Saddle, Reishi, and the early spring Chicken Mushroom. Even the elusive Morels occur throughout the metropolitan region, and spring is the ideal more...
264BOT330 04/22 We 10:00am-1:00pm Sadowski
NYBG
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