Conservation Biology Teaching Philosophy

Most conservation biologists fall into one of two categories: those whose graduate training gave them the background required to become college or university professors, and those who successfully finished their degrees only to discover that the skills needed to effectively work outside of academia had somehow fallen through the cracks of their graduate school experience.

Antioch's Conservation Biology concentration addresses this problem by training practitioners, not theoreticians.

We emphasize acquisition of field and technical skills-such as how to conduct wildlife and botanical inventories, map habitat types, and design effective monitoring schemes. More conceptual topics, ranging from the effects of habitat fragmentation on genetic diversity to the proper use of statistical analyses, are discussed using real examples that link theory and practice.

Last Updated: 2/18/10