MAR 556 - Conservation’s 3 Rs: Reading, Writing, Raising Money

By providing instruction in critical reading, effective writing, and fundraising, this course will fill a need for graduate students, particularly for students in the Marine Conservation and Policy (MCP) program. This course will help students to both understand the public discourse in marine and wildlife conservation and policy issues and to effectively communicate these issues to a wide audience. Although the course was designed with Marine Conservation and Policy students in mind, the course will also be useful to graduate students interested in improving their ability to write effective, understandable, and interesting pieces that help advance public understanding and support for issues in conservation and science more generally. Communication and outreach, and particularly the ability to express the importance of scientific research to the public, is an important component of conducting research and doing conservation work, and is increasingly becoming required and emphasized by funding agencies.

2 credits

Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in MCPMA or permission of instructor

Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)