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<\/a>One of the biggest changes is the Indigenization component.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re offering IST-142, which is the Land, Water, and Stewardship course, and will be offered in winter of 2025,\u201d says Prussin. \u201cThen for each of our courses, we\u2019ve committed to Indigenizing the ENVR-coded courses. We\u2019re going to try to incorporate an Indigenous component where we work with elders who are willing to share knowledge. My hope is that we can find data sets, environmental and scientific data sets, around environmental issues that really impact Indigenous populations.\u201d<\/p>\n
The program has been redesigned to align with what industry leaders need the most in an environmental consultant. The courses have been modernized to include technical skills, field study, and materials. The program is one of three within the lower mainland and Vancouver Island that offer Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Information Network training. It also provides students with an accreditation upon graduation, which will be needed in the future to provide environmental advice within Canada.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen students finish our program, they become eligible to fast-track to become a registered biology technologist,\u201d says Prussin. \u201cThere is new legislation coming about… You have to be either… a registered professional biologist or a registered professional environmental tech, and each of those accreditations have a scope of work they\u2019re allowed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Students in the program do field work at a 160-acre property on Barrow Road in Metchosin that Camosun holds the land title for. It provides exclusive space for Camosun students to perform field work in the area of forestry.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m hoping we can do some drone work, such as aerial mapping for forestry application,\u201d he says. \u201cThere are a lot of technical skills. Like, we\u2019re going to do soils, but we\u2019re going to take more time and draw soils out longer, so it\u2019s not rushed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Calculus was removed from the curriculum, but STAT-216 was added in the first year in order to prepare students for their capstone project. Research methodologies and field sampling techniques, which will expand a student\u2019s ability to apply learned techniques to real-world problems, were added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will also be doing a course where you analyze and interpret data,\u201d says Prussin, \u201cand then in the final year, you do a capstone project where you create a field project where you go and make a field experimental design and collect the data, do the statistics, and then you write a report and do a presentation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After a two-year hiatus, Camosun College\u2019s Environmental Technology (ENVR) program, a science-based diploma that prepares students to develop technologies for tackling the climate crisis and strengthening sustainability, is back, with some changes. The program has been shortened to two years from three, shaving eight courses off the diploma requirements. Students can still obtain a diploma […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-september-3-2024"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25697,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25695\/revisions\/25697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}