PROGRAMS OF STUDY

Adventure Education Leadership
Prepare to manage an outdoor recreation-related organization. This experiential program includes an Outward Bound semester. Emphasis on administration means you get direct experience in planning, organizing, and directing recreation programs.

Adventure Therapy
Combine outdoor experiences with interpersonal skills to promote wellness and change. Explore leadership, group process and counseling, and a broad range of administrative issues. Includes an Outward Bound semester.

Agriculture, Food, and Sustainability
Prepare for a career in the growing fields of sustainable agriculture and food systems drawing on several disciplines that intersect with biology, ecology, economics, critical social sciences, history, and applied sciences such as horticulture, livestock management, and marketing. Significant field components utilizing the college’s farm and garden resources.

Aquaculture and Fisheries
Learn about freshwater and marine environments, controlled cultivation and harvest, and management techniques for fish and invertebrate populations. Research finfish rearing, shellfish culture, seaweed harvesting, anatomy, physiology, and pathology as you prepare for industry or graduate study.

Captive Wildlife Care and Education
Focus on the care and husbandry of captive wild species. Learn to educate the public on wildlife issues. Study biological sciences, wildlife, education, and interpretation. Then, share your knowledge by working at zoos, aquariums, rehabilitation centers, and other wildlife
education facilities.

Conservation Law Enforcement
Integrate science with law enforcement to protect natural resources. Understand biology and gain the skills for applying crime scene investigation techniques to enforce public and commercial conservation laws at the federal, state, and local levels.

Ecology
Study the interrelationships between living organisms and the environment. From a solid background in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, you can pursue many scientific disciplines while remaining committed to improving environmental quality.

Environmental Analysis
Integrate geology and chemistry with biological sciences to address chemical and geological problems in the environment. Prepare to work with environmental consulting firms, laboratories, or regulatory agencies.

Environmental Biology
Pursue this disciplined scientific course of study, including a senior thesis, and choose to serve the environment through a graduate program or careers in field biology or biological research.

Environmental Education
Prepare to deliver experiential learning programs that foster environmental literacy and encourage people to protect and improve the environment by working in a wide variety of educational and recreational settings.

Environmental Policy and Law
Conserve and protect our natural resources by making a difference in the political arena. Prepare for policy-oriented careers through study of the law, economics, sciences, and politics. Internships and projects with environmental organizations provide real-world experience.

Environmental Science
Investigate sciences such as ecology, chemistry, and geology. Discover current issues in scientific theory and environmental policy. Nurture individual interests and develop skills for careers in law, planning, business, medicine, environmental consulting, and regulation, or go on to
graduate study.

Environmental Writing
Explore self-expression while mastering techniques to advocate for the environment. The liberal arts serve as a base for focused experiences that prepare you for careers in creative writing, journalism, and writing for social or biological sciences.

Marine Biology
Explore the life of the sea. Examine topics such as oceanography, invertebrate zoology, marine ecology, ichthyology, or marine mammalogy. With this broad introduction, you are prepared for a variety of scientific marine careers or graduate studies.

Parks, Recreation, and Ecotourism
Expand your capacity to serve recreation, tourism, natural resource planning, and environmental organizations. This interdisciplinary program blends natural, social, and management sciences for career flexibility in both the public and private sectors.

Sustainable Design and Technology
Students learn to evaluate and implement emerging technologies and to design, quantify, and account for programs of energy efficiency and climate emission reductions for government, for private businesses, or for households. The emphasis will be on practical skills based on solid general theory.

Teaching and Learning
Learn to prepare and deliver experiential programs that foster environmental literacy and encourage environmental protection. Integrate study of teaching methods and the natural world with practice in groups of learners in community and educational settings.

Wildlife
Bring your love of wildlife to this flexible program and tailor your study with courses in science, math, wildlife, and liberal arts. Career options are yours to choose!

Wildlife Biology
Start on a career path in wildlife science when you explore ecological and biological principles. Courses in management and research concepts prepare you for the highly recommended pursuit of graduate study.

Wildlife Conservation
Discover how wildlife conservation relates to habitat, ecosystems, and land or resource use. Study biological and ecological principles in the context of natural resource and wildlife management. Prepare for careers with non-profit and government agencies that specialize in conservation and land management.