Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Turf School Day Six

Today we had our first Botany class. Our botany class is taught by the same guy who teaches our Landscape Management class. In Botany class we learned about the plant cell and the functions of the different organelles (or parts) of the plant cell, for example we learned about the nucleus, chloroplasts, cell wall, and cell membrane.
We also had our Landscape Management class today. We continued our discussion from last week about landscapes requiring work to keep them from becoming climax forests. A climax forest is similar to what happens to New York City in the movie "I am Legend." The climax forest is a complete conversion from a manicured landscape back to "nature." In this class we discuss the principles of landscape management, then we look at pictures to help us visualize the principles.
We finished our day with our Management Communications class. Today we discussed paradigms and how we need to keep an open mind while working and managing because everyone has a different background and different experiences they draw on in the work. We also took a personality/management style test which is called the Keirsey Temperment Sorter. We have to write a paper about our management style for this course and this test is what we are going to use to write the paper about our style and how we can improve.

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