An Independent Learning Contract Opportunity (or a stand-alone training opportunity)
in Spring Quarter for MES Students interested in Environmental Education and Heritage Interpretation
For those of you interested in pursuing careers in environmental education, communications, or outreach and interested in building even elective credit in this field into your MES coursework, here is an opportunity for this coming Spring Quarter, 2018, an Independent Learning Contract in Heritage Interpretation.
So, what’s Heritage Interpretation? It is the craft of effectively communicating the story of a resource to visitors; it is what interpretive professionals do at parks and protected areas, zoos and aquariums, nature centers and museums, and historic and cultural sites. On April 2-5, two other interpretive trainers and I will teach a four-day intensive Certified Interpretive Guide training workshop, one of the certification programs of the National Association of Interpretation. The CIG workshop and certification is the accepted standard of training for seasonal as well as permanent interpreter positions with the National Park Service as well as many other federal agencies and state park systems. The workshop will be held at Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.
College and university students who are enrolled for appropriate credit—that is, an ILC—can register for this course at much reduced fees ($160). We are offering three slots in this training course for Evergreen students interested in enrolling in a 4-credit Independent Learning Contract, which would include and build upon the CIG training workshop through additional reading and a follow-up project of your own choosing.
If you don’t want to do the ILC but you do want to take the training, you can register as a regular participant. But if you do, the registration fee is significantly higher: $405.
More information about the course is on the NAI Training and Certification web-page.
https://www.interpnet.com/nai/nai/_events/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=CIG040218
You also can find out more about this opportunity by consulting your MES colleagues who have recently taken the training: They are: Anna Rhoads (an MES grad, now an Evergreen staff member), Meara Heubach, Amanda Mintz, Katrina Keleher and Averi Azar.
If interested, please contact me at macgjean@evergreen.edu.
Jean MacGregor
Director, Curriculum for the Bioregion
Washington Center for Undergraduate Education
The Evergreen State College
2700 Evergreen Parkway NW
Olympia, WA 98505
Ph. 360-867-6608
Fax 360-867-6662
http://bioregion.evergreen.edu
“We need a new ethic of place, one that has room for salmon and skyscrapers, suburbs and wilderness, Mount Rainier and the Space Needle, one grounded in history.” – Matthew Klingle