Curricula

The big conservation issues of our day require collaborations designed for unique systemic challenges, connecting people to the land and natural resources on which they rely. What natural resource do we rely on more than anything? Clean drinking water. This is the story of how Sebago Clean Waters, a watershed at risk, the people and organizations that came together to protect it, and the ways in which they are slowly but surely gaining support from both downstream and watershed communities to bring a holistic approach to fruition.

In this course from Pennsylvania State University, students learn how Conservation GIS applies geospatial problem solving to ecological research and resource management issues to enhance conservation planning.

This course from Harvard University's Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Dept examines the history and changes in conservation rationale and approach in the U.S.; the ecological theory and research that helps guide conservation planning and execution; and the policies, finances, and practice of land conservation.

In Sentinels, we are introducing you to what we call “experiential wilderness skills and awareness training.” This type of skill development will help you learn things that are difficult to learn in a conventional classroom—things like attachment to natural areas and motor skills necessary to thrive there.

This course examines conservation permanence through legal practice conservation easement tools, agricultural and working forest conservation easements, financing conservation, perpetual stewardship and enforcement responsibilities, standards and practices, and due diligence for conservation transactions and conservation incentives.

This course examines conservation permanence through legal practice conservation easement tools, agricultural and working forest conservation easements, financing conservation, perpetual stewardship and enforcement responsibilities, standards and practices, and due diligence for conservation transactions and conservation incentives.

The Student Land Stewardship Program (SLSP) gives students an introduction to ICNL management, and prepares them for a paid summer internship.

In this case study, we narrate the story of one exercise deployed in this course, a night class in the forest, which has proven valuable for helping our students develop an affective connection with the natural surroundings.

This course analyzes the transformation of the North American environment from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries, paying special attention to the effects of human practices and attitudes, including different notions of nature.

This course takes a human-environment geographer’s perspective, posing the following questions: What role does land play in particular cultures in particular places? How do biophysical processes shape landscapes? How do social processes determine land use?