ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD STUDIES   [Archived Catalog]
2019-2020 Johnstown Campus Catalog
   

ENVSTD 1500 - ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD STUDIES


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Immerse a student in a regional experience as a two week field course. This course will enable students to see critically and to interpret a cultural landscape through the perspective of culture and history, sustainability, ecology and natural environment, geology, and geography. Using a combination of structured field studies, cultural specific readings, primary and secondary data, and standard geographic field techniques this course strives to develop a deeper affective and cognitive understanding of a specified geographic region. This course is designed to offer students the opportunity to participate in a travel experience that is directly linked to their coursework and academic concentration and to broaden understanding of social and environmental processes through hands-on-site visits to several national and global parks, cities, towns, cultural centers, nature preserves, museums, etc. Course can be taken more than once as study sites will change.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: Letter Grade


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