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Course ID:	ECOL 4560/6560. 4 hours.
Course Title:	Science and Art of Conservation
Course Description:	Multidisciplinary field course examining contemporary challenges in resource conservation, using Ossabaw Island, Georgia as the primary study site. Open to third-year students, fourth-year students and graduate students from all departments. All students are required to conduct two projects, and present their projects and findings to the class at end of session. Lab fee required.
Athena Title:	SCI ART CONSERV
Nontraditional Format:	Primitive camping conditions, multidisciplinary lectures, and individual projects and reports. Maymester course: Students will spend 8-10 hours daily conducting coastal geomorphology, natural history sessions, field techniques in ecology, environmental design, historic reservation, history, botany, ornithology etc.i.e. several facets of landscape conservation interdisciplinary interactions between these variables. Students get daily lectures in all above, plus guest lectures from Dept. of Natural Resources personnel in Island Management inssues and conservation politics. Students also are responsible for completing two projects each while on the island, one in either Ecology or Natural History and one in Environmental Art. They also read and lead discusssions based upon various books examining contemporary conservation challenges.
Undergraduate Prerequisite:	Permission of department
Graduate Prerequisite:	Permission of department
Semester Course Offered:	Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System:	A-F (Traditional)

Syllabus: No Syllabus Available