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Environmental Sciences
Description: Calling all aspiring gardeners, designers and community organizers! Discover how growing food and community can serve as a vehicle for transformation--for the self, community, and the land. Introduction to Permaculture is the first in a two-part series that offers the opportunity for students to receive their 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate. This three-credit course offers a foundation in permaculture history, ethics, principles, design process, and practical applications. The framework behind the theory and practice of permaculture is rooted in the observation of natural systems. By observing key ecological relationships, we can mimic and apply these beneficial relationships in the design of systems that serve humans while helping to restore the natural world. This course trains students as critical thinkers, observers, and analysts of the world around them, and then goes on to provide students with the tools needed to design for inspired and positive change. Cross-listed with SUS 422. Co-convened with ENV 522. Letter grade only.
Units: 3
No sections currently offered.
Environmental Sciences
Term : Fall 2026
Catalog Year : 2026-2027
ENV 422 - Introduction To Permaculture
Description: Calling all aspiring gardeners, designers and community organizers! Discover how growing food and community can serve as a vehicle for transformation--for the self, community, and the land. Introduction to Permaculture is the first in a two-part series that offers the opportunity for students to receive their 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate. This three-credit course offers a foundation in permaculture history, ethics, principles, design process, and practical applications. The framework behind the theory and practice of permaculture is rooted in the observation of natural systems. By observing key ecological relationships, we can mimic and apply these beneficial relationships in the design of systems that serve humans while helping to restore the natural world. This course trains students as critical thinkers, observers, and analysts of the world around them, and then goes on to provide students with the tools needed to design for inspired and positive change. Cross-listed with SUS 422. Co-convened with ENV 522. Letter grade only.
Units: 3
No sections currently offered.