Integrative Sessions

All courses meet together each Thursday in Integrative Sessions. These are dedicated to integration of the various courses currently being taught and integration of these with Christian faith and stewardship. As part of these sessions, faculty and staff work cooperatively to develop and conduct interdisciplinary seminars, stewardship workshops and field trips in which all courses participate. Integrative Sessions are focused upon an overarching stewardship theme or current environmental problem or issue, such as tropical deforestation, roles of forests in the carbon cycle, global warming and the greenhouse effect, ecological sustainability, and biospheric fruitfulness. In addition to Integrative Sessions, each course engages in at least one cooperative project or field trip with one other course. This may include one or two extended weekend field trips during each of the summer sessions. These extended field trips include provisions for Sunday worship.

Example Integrative Session:
Integrative Session on Lake Restoration and Management