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College Class Opportunities
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Boulder is an ideal outdoor classroom for a variety of interdisciplinary college courses with its unparalleled diversity of plants and animals, cultural history, and ongoing stewardship activities of both land and water.
Please contact us if you would like to discuss how to best enrich your courses with an experience at Boulder.
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Examples of Courses Utilizing Boulder
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Bio4803: Ecology Field Methods - Provides undergraduates with an introduction to field ecology, including field identification of northern Minnesota terrestrial and aquatic flora and fauna and basic field methods to quantify distribution and abundance of plants and animals. Sampling methods taught include releves, variable radius plots, point-counts, random plots, line transects, calling surveys, dip nets and tow nets. Fieldwork will include exploration of issues related to project design and data collection, summarization and evaluation. Additional hours in the field may be required beyond regular course hours
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Anth 4696: Archaeology Field School - The full 6-week experience (for 6 semester credits) provides preparation for those interested in pursuing a career in archaeology as well as those just interested in seeing what archaeology field work is like. |
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Internship/Practicum - Boulder provides the opportunity for college students to gain experience in the professional application of their outdoor education knowledge and skills. More |
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Field methods for citizen science and monitoring - The course includes a hands-on introduction to field methods for conducting citizen science and ecological monitoring integrated with interpretation of natural and cultural features including sampling organisms in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, study design, data collection and basic statistics. |
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Outdoor Skills - Boulder is the winter camping site for a capstone weekend where students demonstrate the outdoor skills they learned throughout the semester... |
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Teaching Outdoor Skills - Combined with "Outdoor Skills", this course focuses on students demonstrating the ability to effectively teach their peers in an outdoor setting.... |
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Aquatic Systems - Summer course where students investigated aquatic systems. A one day field visit to Boulder included deep water sampling from the pontoon and shore data.... |
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Field Interpretation - This course is designed to provide the foundational skills, techniques, and knowledge involved in interpreting the natural history of the autumn and early winter environment on and around the North Shore of Lake Superior
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GIS for Recreational Professionals - Students learned how to professionally create shapefiles of trails and forest stands on the north end of Boulder. |
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Environmental Education - Graduate students pursuing a master's in Environmental Education gain valuable experience acting as intern naturalists at Boulder Lake ELC. |
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Ecology Labs - 3-5 hour hands-on labs covering a variety of ecological concepts throughout the Boulder Lake Management Area. |
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