Ithaca College

Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science

 

Herkimer County Community College

Associate of Science in General Science

 

Environmental Sentinels - Focus on natural history, biodiversity, primitive technology skills, field identification, ability to read land-use history and an appreciation for modern ecological science and natural resource management.

Environmental Science and Technology -Focus on the scientific principles and technological advances fundamental to understanding human impact on the environment.

Earth Systems Science - This course takes a whole-systems approach to develop an integrated understanding of the physical, chemical, biological, and human interactions that determine the past, current, and future states of the earth.

Human-Environment Geography - This course uses natural science, social science, and humanistic approaches to study the complex relationships between human physical and cultural systems through time and space.

Environmental Ethics - Topics include literature, philosophy, mythology, and history from around the world. By exploring the myriad ways human beings have viewed nature, students will gain a better grasp of why human-environment interactions are in crisis and what it means to be human in such a world.

Geography and Planning: Water Use and Management - This course considers the ways that technology, economics, policy, politics, ideology, and culture figure into society’s interactions with the hydrologic cycle and its use of water as a resource.

Geology - Investigation of the solid earth and its movements through plate tectonics and the exploration of how these processes affect and are affected by human activity.

Conservation Biology - Investigation of biological principles to reverse the trends in species loss that we are currently experiencing with the examination of local and global conservation efforts.

 

 

Primitive Pursuits, Cornell Cooperative Extension

Wilderness Skills Instructor Certification

This program combines wilderness survival skills & bioregional knowledge with the most effective tools of mentoring. Working as a committed group that challenges, questions, explores, and plays together, while also providing many unique opportunities for personal & professional development.

 

 

Extracurricular Courses:

 

Basic Orienteering

Bass Fishing

Field Archery

Billiards

Rock Climbing

Scuba Diving

Emergency Health Care