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• PCRM 615: Issues in Parks and Recreation/Resource Management

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  An integrative course for detailed study of current and future challenges facing the parks and recreation professional.
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• PCRM 616: Aquatic Systems

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  Using aquatic environments as a thematic focus, this course provides foundational information and teaching techniques related to aquatic systems. The course will cover resource related information, as well as formal and non-formal teaching techniques about amphibians, reptiles, aquatic macro invertebrates and fish. This course includes training in Aquatic Wild.
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• PCRM 617: Terrestrial Systems

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course focuses on resource management, sustainability and educational teaching techniques as they apply to terrestrial systems. Emphasis will be placed on forests, endangered systems, and the development of associated natural history skills, The course includes training in Project Learning Tree.
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• PCRM 618: Wildlife Education

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course provides an overview of wildlife and associated teaching techniques. Emphasis will be placed on current issues in conservation, management and identification. Topics will include ornithology and mammalogy. Students will utilize field studies and hands-on, problem solving activities. This course will include training in Project Wild and other associated teaching aids.
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• PCRM 621: Green Schools

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course provides an overview of specific practices and technologies used in green school facilities and grounds. Course participants will investigate the role that school facilities play in shaping the student''s awareness of the natural environment and ways of living sustainably. Through conducting case studies of existing schools, course participants will learn how to evaluate school facilities. Course participants will develop proposals recommending changes to the structure or operation of school facilities, which would create more environmentally-focused educational settings.
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• PCRM 631: Design for Sustainable Landscapes

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  Focuses on sustainable and regenerative design/spec projects at residential and homestead scales. Selected assignments require students to research and develop creative solutions that span the boundary between house and garden, and reflect the interrelationships among human and natural systems. The course is founded on permaculture principles, including zoning and stacking functions, but it is expanded to provide practical tools for planning, detailing and implementing small site design projects. Projects may be chosen in urban and rural settings.
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• PCRM 632: Group Facilitation and Leadership

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will cover the concepts related to working with groups as a facilitator. Hands-on approaches to program design, sequencing activities, and processing experiences will be examined. Students will facilitate their classmates as well as possible REACH Program participants through a group development experience making use of SRU's low and high challenge courses and the Leadership Reaction Course. Students will participate in course/equipment set-up and risk management practices
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• PCRM 642: Sustainable Agriculture Techniques

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course presents the concepts of agroecology and applies them to on-farm practices. Integrates principles of crop, animal, week, and insect biology with whole farm management practices, such as use of crop rotation, agroforestry, cover-cropping and conservation techniques.
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• PCRM 643: Sustainable Agricultural Practices in Plant and Animal Husbandry

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course provides an overview of biology as it applies to sustainable crop management, with a strong emphasis on genetic resource conservation. The course provides numerous opportunities for hands-on practice of sustainable agriculture.
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• PCRM 644: Fertility Considerations in Regenerative Agriculture

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This is a follow-up to Soils as a Resource (645), focusing on sustainable management of the soil fertility base through cropping system development and use of organic amendments.
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