Middlebury School of the Environment
Summer 2016
We are still accepting applications for the Summer 2016 session of the Middlebury School of the Environment(MSoE), and financial aid is still available.
Please pass this along to any of your undergraduate students who may be interested in a for-credit summer program that combines coursework in environmental studies with leadership and professional skills training.
This is a six-week, integrated program, running from June 24 to August 5, 2016, on Middlebury College’s main campus in Vermont.
The program offers nine semester-hour credits, and, as mentioned above, financial aid is available due to the generosity of donors who believe that all students should have the opportunity to become effective agents of environmental and social change.
Our session last summer was quite successful, and I’m pleased to say that in this coming summer we will be offering the same mix of formal coursework and leadership training as in previous years.
The curriculum involves two different tracks of study, one on sustainability and understanding place (taught at a more advanced level and intended for students with previous coursework in environmental studies) and one on systems thinking and environmental analysis (taught at a more introductory level).
Each student, regardless of their track of study, also enrolls in one of four electives, depending on their interests:Environmental Video Production; Wicked Environmental Problems; Environmental Pollution; or Religion, Nature, and Justice.
The co-curricular program on leadership training focuses on helping students develop the skills they need as professionals to do something effective with the information they learn in their studies. For this, the faculty of the MSoE are joined by leading environmental professionals and experts in a number of skills that will enhance each student’s ability to be successful no matter what choose to do with their college education.
We’re happy to talk to anyone regarding our program. Feel free to write directly to Steve Trombulak, the Director of the School, if you or your interested students have any questions.