FRC101: Growing Fruit for Fun and Profit - Spring 2012 Course - Prof. Rebecca L. Darnell, Lecture notes of Agricultural engineering

Download FRC101: Growing Fruit for Fun and Profit - Spring 2012 Course - Prof. Rebecca L. Darnell and more Lecture notes Agricultural engineering in PDF only on Docsity! GROWING FRUIT FOR FUN AND PROFIT FRC1010 - 1 CREDIT SPRING 2012 INSTRUCTORS: Primary Instructor: Gerardo Nunez (frc1010@ifas.ufl.edu). UF faculty and industry representatives will deliver respective lectures. TEACHING ASSISTANTS : Al Kovaleski: sections 2560, 2561 at Fifield Hall (frc1010fif@ifas.ufl.edu). Tingting Zhang, Desire Djidonou: section 1247 at New Physics Building; (frc1010npb@ifas.ufl.edu). COURSE DESCRIPTION: Course lectures cover some of the major fruit and vegetable crops (including citrus, peach, blueberry, strawberry), organic farming, the use of GMO’s, & postharvest handling/marketing. No prerequisites. COURSE WEBSITE: E-Learning at Sakai (https://lss.at.ufl.edu/). All hand-outs will be posted online. Syllabus, attendance and grades will also be posted here. NO TEXT OR LABORATORIES. NO EXAMS . COURSE GRADE BASED ON : 1. Attendance (42%) Attendance will be taken every class period. It is your responsibility to check your attendance online weekly. If you disagree with your attendance you must contact your TA via e-mail within 1 week to correct the discrepancy. If you do not contact your TA within this time period, no changes will be made to the attendance. The seat you have chosen is your permanent one. Attendance will be taken based on where you are seated. 2. Vocabulary Assignment (8%) This 10-question, multiple choice assignment will be posted in Sakai after lecture on 1/20/12. It will cover the vocabulary presented during the lecture on 1/19/12.You will have 7 days (until 1/26/12) to complete it. There will be no make-ups for this assignment. 3. Notebook (50%) It is important to take lecture notes for each lecture and for the entire duration of the lecture. This means that at a minimum, you should have one full page of notes for each lecture, although you may have more. You must have lecture notes and all handouts for each lecture. Your handwriting must be clear and readable, otherwise you will not get credit for the notes. Notebooks are turned in by 5 p.m. on April 12 for review and grading, and must be neat and legible. Graded notebooks will be returned on April 19. Notebooks not picked up by April 24 will be thrown away. Please note the following: 1. Your notebook must be a ring binder. 2. Xeroxed or type written notes are not allowed. 3. Notebooks must include: a. The syllabus b. Table of Contents c. Notes from every class (including April 12th) d. Hand-outs from each lecture (if applicable) e. Pages must be numbered f. Notes must be neat and legible 4. Late notebooks are NOT accepted. If you don’t turn in a notebook, you will receive an “E” for the course. GRADING SCALE: A 90-100 C 70-74 B+ 85-89 D+ 65-69 B 80-84 D 60-64 C+ 75-79 E <60 COURSE POLICIES : Talking during lecture will not be tolerated. If you insist on talking, you will be asked to leave and you will be marked absent. Reading the newspaper, studying for another class, text messaging, using your cell phone or laptop, sleeping or other attention diverting activities will not be tolerated either. If the TAs or the instructor see you continuously conducting any of these activities during class you will be marked absent. Since there are no exams in this course, it’s important that you pay attention. • Career Resource Center, CR-100 JWRU, 392-1602, HYPERLINK http://www.crc.ufl.edu/www.crc.ufl.edu/ • Student Mental Health Services, Rm. 245 Student Health Care Center, 392- 1171, HYPERLINK http://www.shcc.ufl.edu/smhs/www.shcc.ufl.edu/smhs/ Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program (ASAP) Center for Sexual Assault / Abuse Recovery & Education (CARE) Eating Disorders Program Employee Assistance Program Suicide Prevention Program Students with Disabilities The Disability Resource Center coordinates the needed accommodations of students with disabilities. This includes registering disabilities, recommending academic accommodations within the classroom, accessing special adaptive computer equipment, providing interpretation services and mediating faculty-student disability related issues. 0001 Reid Hall, 392-8565, www.dso.ufl.edu/drc/ FRC1010 Growing Fruit for Fun and Profit Tentative Course Outline- Spring 2012 Date Topic Guest Speaker Important Notes January 12 Introduction Dr. Rebecca Darnell January 19 Vocabulary. Fruits of the Andes Gerardo Nunez January 26 Blueberries Dr. James Olmstead February 2 Farm to Fork Dr. Kevin Folta February 9 Crop Domestication Dr. Kevin Folta February 16 Peaches and Plums Dr. Jeffrey Williamson February 23 Cherries Dr. Mercy Olmstead March 1 Citrus Dr. Jose Chaparro March 8 Spring Break March 15 Space Biology Dr. Anna-Lisa Paul March 22 Strawberry Dr. Kevin Folta March 29 Frankenfoods Dr. Kevin Folta April 5 Postharvest Dr. Steve Sargent April 12 Fruit processing and wine making Dr. Charles Sims *Notebooks due by 5:00pm- Must include notes from today’s lecture April 19 Organic Production Dr. Danielle Treadwell Notebooks returned *Notebooks not turned in at the end of class for either period MUST be turned in at 1127 Fifield Hall by 5:00pm on April 12th. Be sure you know the location of the notebook drop-off room if you don’t turn in your notebook immediately after class. Getting the notebook to 1127 Fifield Hall by 5:00pm on April 12th is YOUR responsibility. NO EXCEPTIONS!