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3.00 Credits
How can we persuade others to help us protect the environment? Do the ends justify the means? This course offers the theoretical and practical groundwork needed to evaluate goals and put ideas in action. Students learn how to plan campaigns, build coalitions, conduct focus groups, select and influence audiences, and create and deliver effective messages. Students will discuss ethical issues and plan an actual advocacy campaign. A field trip may be required. Credits: 3 Offered Semester II Prerequisite: Sophomore status
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3.00 Credits
This course examines important technical problems of environmental regulation and planning. Students examine standard quantitative techniques, such as basic macro- and microeconomic analysis for policy-making, and cost-benefit analysis, as well as specialized environmental techniques such as risk assessment, pollution trading, carbon taxation, and more. The course also includes detailed qualitative treatment of current problems and cases such as the New England climate change response or the Stern Review on the economics of climate change. Credits: 3 Offered Semester I Prerequisites: MA 1223, MA 2243 or consent Alternate years even
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How do our governments deal with society's effects on the natural world and with the environment' s effects on humans? The purpose of the course is to help students develop ways and means to investigate this question. Students explore issues and conduct policy analysis in areas such as water resource management, global climate change, environmental justice, recreational access, and coastal fisheries conservation. The course features guest lectures by outside experts, field trips, and policy research projects designed to make a difference in the real world.Credits: 3 Offered Semester I Prerequisite: Junior/Senior status
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Students will create personal interpretive programs while practicing basic oral communication methods. Completion of this course helps eligible students become Certified Interpretive Guides under National Association for Interpretation standards. Students will develop a portfolio of skills demonstrating best practices for interpretive talks and walks. Credits: 3 Offered Semester I and II Prerequisite: None
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3.00 Credits
Students will explore a wide range of possible ecotourism activities, including traditional outdoor activities like hiking, canoeing, hunting and fishing, and traditional touring experiences like scenic drives, shopping for local goods, and visiting local natural and cultural sites. Comparisons between standard tourism practices and development politics with ecotourism principles form the basis for creative student projects that explore new ways of conducting more sustainable tourism. Special attention to the relationship between resource management agencies and private for profit business. Credits: 3 Offered Semester I Prerequisite: Sophomore status Alternate years even
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3.00 Credits
The course will examine roles of visitor and resource protection, law enforcement, search and rescue, fee collection, and special operations. Students will participate in field operations in addition to classroom sessions. Credits: 3 Offered Semester I Prerequisite: Junior status Alternate years odd
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3.00 Credits
Students will critically examine the wide variety of personal and nonpersonal interpretive methods used by organizations that deliver natural, cultural, and/or historical interpretation programs. Working in teams, students design effective interpretation programs that include personal presentations, exhibits and publications, and then present them to public audiences. Credits: 3 Offered Semester I Prerequisite: PR 1023 Alternate years odd
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to acquaint students with park planning principles and procedures. Students will work through the major phases of facility design. The lab section in this class will provide students with hands-on experience in the park and open space planning process. Credits: 3 Offered Semester I Prerequisite: Senior status or consent
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3.00 Credits
The first in a two-semester sequence, this course focuses on energy and mechanics. Topics covered include motion and force. The associated laboratory section includes both hands-on and computerized explorations. Credits: 3 Offered Semester I Prerequisites: MA 1223 or concurrent enrollment Alternate years even
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3.00 Credits
The second part of a two-semester sequence, this course examines the concepts of sound, electricity, optics, and modern physics. Credits: 3 Offered Semester II Prerequisites: PS 2303 Alternate years odd
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