| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 67.33 |
| Liaison | James Biesecker |
| Submission Date | Nov. 1, 2022 |
Gettysburg College
AC-5: Immersive Experience
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.00 / 2.00 |
Randy
Wilson Associate Professor Environmental Studies |
Does the institution offer at least one immersive, sustainability-focused educational study program that is one week or more in length?:
A brief description of the sustainability-focused immersive program(s) offered by the institution:
ES 251/252: Physical and Cultural Geography of the Rocky Mountain West is an intensive two-week field-based examination of the physical and cultural geography of the the San Juan Mountain Range in Southwest Colorado. Service-learning and other projects examine human-nature interactions from diverse multicultural (Native American, Euro-American), institutional (U.S. Forest Service, BLM), and political-economic (logging, ranching, mining, tourism) perspectives. Students examine efforts to achieve ecologically sustainable solutions to land management challenges in the Rocky Mountain region.
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