CONSERVATION SOS
An Interdisciplinary, Project-Based Program to Integrate the Creative Arts, Science, and Technology, Applied to Conserving Biodiversity and Cultures Worldwide.
Conservation SOS offers a program, fully accredited by Prescott College, where college students in the arts, humanities, social and natural sciences come together as team members to work side-by-side with conservation professionals on an applied project.
Conservation SOS offers an experiential program that:
• integrates learning from many disciplines,
• expands awareness and understanding of conservation issues and solutions for a broad audience through creative use of words, images, and technologies, and
• offers cross cultural training and experience to demonstrate how people can learn to live better within an ecosystem in a way that sustains the social and ecological health of their place on earth.
Conservation SOS. participants investigate and document the natural history and ecology of diverse ecosystems from around the world to support conservation research and practice. This work applies many disciplines and mediums from the arts and sciences to assist communities in their efforts to protect and communicate their culture and natural heritage and helps practitioners to build socially and ecologically viable conservation strategies. Through the application of ecological research techniques, conflict resolution techniques, market-based conservation strategies, remote imagery, digital video, photography, creative writing, sound recording, and related visual arts to an active conservation project, participants will help record existing conditions and practices, interpret trends, explore solutions, and communicate results to diverse audiences.
Participants may earn up to 16 semester credits through Prescott College in Prescott, AZ, a fully accredited, coeducational four-year college focusing on the liberal arts and the environment.
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