Course description:

Integrating new knowledge and perspectives with personal and professional experiences, this course encourages students to think critically about real world challenges for supporting community-based forest management and conservation.

Learning objectives:

Upon completion of this course, successful students will have:

Integrated new multidisciplinary knowledge with their personal and professional experiences to think critically about community-based forest management;
Synthesized key ecological concepts for sound management of community resources;
Articulated the relevance and complexity of the socio-political context on community-based resource management;
Reviewed and discussed practical ways in which community-based management has been implemented;
Reflected on their roles as supporters of community-based resource management;
Written a research proposal or manuscript that integrates student interests with course learning.

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