Instructor Name: Rick Hugo
CRN: 63498
Your course project will be to create a Virtual Field Environment (VFE) which will be used by K-12 classroom teachers and community educators to "visit" local field sites with their students. You can find a list of our VFEs here. Our challenge is to take a VFE beyond the typical virtual tour and create a rich, engaging learning environment that facilitates student-centered inquiry. You must also strive to engage learners from different cultural backgrounds and with different learning...
Fall 2021Fall 2022Fall 2023Spring 2021Spring 2022Spring 2023Spring 2024
Education-Youth Science Outdoors Ecology Sustainability Education
Instructor Name: Mary Ann Schmidt
CRN: 81658
Students will work in partnership with the Clackamas River Basin Council to monitor over twenty stream sites both public and private. Local land owners will provide access to their stream side properties in order for students to collect and analyze water samples. Students will provide creek side landowners with information on the quality of their local surface water, and also report their river basin wide project results to the Clackamas River Basin Council.
This course involves field and lab...
Sustainability Research Education Science Retired-course
Instructor Name: Laurel Singer
CRN: 81699
Convening Diverse Groups to Resolve Community Issues Creating sustainable solutions to the most critical and pressing issues confronting our communities is only possible when diverse stakeholders are able to come to together to collaborate. This course is designed to give students an opportunity to gain essential knowledge and skills to work effectively in collaboration with others, and to understand how that same collaborative process is successfully being used to solve our most pressing...
Sustainability Global Perspectives Community Health Education Youth
Instructor Name: Kimberly Mukobi, kmukobi@pdx.edu
CRN: 14164, 14100, 14057
The Grant Writing for Animals: Wildlife Conservation in Africa class partners with the Kasese Wildlife Conservation Awareness Organization (http://www.kasesewildlife.org) to further its goals of creating wildlife awareness and increasing conservation efforts in Ugandan communities. Students will participate in the various aspects of grant writing, including researching funding sources, ascertaining the needs of the community partner, proposal writing, editing, and formatting. A significant...
Fall 2019Fall 2020Fall 2021Fall 2022
Conservation - Wildlife Education Sustainability Animals Online or Hybri Courses Education-Youth Wildlife Conservation Hybrid or Fully online Hybrid Courses Grant Writing Grantwriting
Instructor Name: Mary Ann Schmidt
CRN: 64095
Quality Assurance for Volunteer Stream Monitoring.Science Background Not Required.
Students will coordinate and implement all aspects of the quality assurance project plan (QAPP) for the Student Watershed Research Project (SWRP)'s volunteer monitoring program. Students will work as a team to ensure data quality for the 15 high school groups involved in SWRP. Non-science majors are encouraged to become "citizen scientists" through their participation in this capstone.
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Education Sustainability Research Science Retired-course
Instructor Name: Nariyo Kono
The goal of this course is to provide students professional skills for grant proposal writing in the field of language diversity and sustainability. Along with the proposal writing skills, the students will learn a solid background in historical and societal issues that influence language diversity through hands-on collaboration with current language sustainability efforts. This capstone partners with one of the endangered language communities in the Northwest, specifically, the Warm Springs...
Sustainability Grantwriting Education Online or Hybrid Courses
Instructor Name: Nariyo Kono
CRN: 44067
The goal of this course is to give students a solid background in historical and societal issues that influence language diversity through hands-on collaboration with current language sustainability efforts. This capstone partners with endangered language communities in the Northwest (tribal language programs in general and the Warm Springs Tribal Language Program, specifically) to work together to support those programs by giving students “on-the-ground” skills to accompany class studies....
Spring 2020Winter 2021Winter 2022Winter 2023
Online or Hybrid Courses Activism Education Fund Raising indigenous Sustainability
Instructor Name: Annie Knepler
CRN: 63518
This Capstone will partner with the Learning Gardens Laboratory (LGL), a 12-acre garden education site on Portland’s southeast side. Students work collaboratively to gather stories of community gardeners, teachers, and community partners who regularly gather at LGL to learn and farm. Capstone students will gain skills in interviewing, storytelling, and using narrative as a means for social change, in addition to learning about sustainable food systems and the impact of learning gardens.
Spring 2021Spring 2022Spring 2023Spring 2024Spring 2020
Community Health Sustainability Education social justice Ecology Garden-based learning food
Instructor Name: Lydia Fisher
CRN: 45260
Farm Ed for Youth: Growing Stories
"Do you want to help connect school age children to the natural environment at this time when outdoor learning is so important?"
This Capstone will partner with the Sauvie Island Center (sauvieislandcenter.org). The mission of the Sauvie Island Center is “educating youth about food, farming, and the land.” Students will work collaboratively with the Sauvie Island Center staff to develop curriculum for school age children, help the Center to share the...
Winter 2022
Community Health Sustainability Ecology Farm-based learning food Education Storytelling