Sustainability Externship

Course Code:
SUS 395
Course Group(s):
Degree Applicable, Integrative Studies: SCWL Program Options
Course Description:
This course is designed to provide the opportunity to students to pursue their interests in sustainability studies in areas such as sustainable agriculture, community development, alternative farming and forestry. Opportunities may include, (but are not limited to): apprenticeships in organic farming/gardening, internships with community (including municipal, campus, and business) sustainability coordinators, and green construction, community greenscaping, and landscape management. All guidelines and requirements related to externships listed in the catalog apply. This experience must be completed before the student?s final year in residence at PSC ? it may not be executed after the last semester of the student?s program. To apply for this opportunity students are required to develop and sign a written externship agreement describing the nature of the externship, planned learning outcomes, timing of the externship, student deliverables and other elements outlined below. Application must be approved by the Department Chair before the beginning of the externship. Credit for the experience will only be given once the student has completed an exit interview with the appropriate Department Chair that should include evidence of compliance with the written externship agreement. Minimum 400 hours.
Credit:
3
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