Environmental Studies - Resource Management and Conservation

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Practice-Centered Research - Resource Management and Conservation Program - Environmental Studies - Antioch University New England

Practice-Centered Coursework

RMC students Practice of theory and skills, and building a portfolio of experience for prospective employers, are at the core of the RMC curriculum. Many of the RMC courses develop challenges that allow students to practice team problem solving and development of a final product of a quality reflective of what they would be expected to create as a professional. Other courses have term projects that are actual consultancies to organizations that have requested assistance in addressing a current challenge.

In addition, all RMC students are required to take eight (8) credits of practicum (internship). This allows students to not only gain experience within the type of organization they project that they may want to work, but it also allows application of the theory and skills presented in the classroom setting. Most importantly, it provides students the opportunity to network with the environmental professional community that they hope to join at graduation.

Resource Management and Conservation practica examples include researchers, project managers, and planners for such organizations as the City of Keene Public Works Department, Monadnock Conservancy, New Hampshire Fish and Game, Water Quality Division of the Vermont Natural Resources Agency, and the Buffalo Field Campaign.

Capstone Projects

RMC students are required to completed a special project or develop and conduct research culminating in a thesis. These projects provide the student with a professional quality work product that not only helps the student to demonstrate their focus of professional pursuit but provides a portfolio piece that can provided to prospective employers.

These projects have a faculty advisor but students are also coached to locate outside readers/advisors who are doing such cutting edge work in the professional field of their choice. By doing so, the student is expanding their networks, preparing them for potential employment.

Students often develop these final products within the context of a real need voiced by some organization external to Antioch. Thus, the work product not only meets the academic requirement of the program but also provides a useful tool for others to use in addressing an environmental challenge. Such an approach allows the student to expand their network by letting others know of the quality of their work outside the Antioch setting.

These examples of capstone projects show the breadth of what RMC students have completed in preparation of their professional critical path.

Last Updated: 4/21/08