Institute for Social Ecology writes

"Courses in Social Ecology

The Institute for Social Ecology (ISE), located amid central
Vermont's rolling mountains, has been a center for education
and action working with the ideas of social ecology since the
1970s. The ISE and its programs also serve as a forum for
serious dialog among ecological, social justice, and
anti-capitalist activists, as a laboratory for new ecological
technologies, and as a resource for community groups around
the world. For the spring and summer of 2003, the ISE is
again offering its widely acclaimed programs.

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B.A. Degree in Social Ecology

Burlington College in collaboration with the ISE offers a B.A.
degree in the field of social ecology. Students interested in
this program may pursue self-designed majors in many areas
of study, including: sustainable design, building, and land use;
social and political theory; activism, organizing, and
community development; alternative agriculture and food
systems; and popular education.

The ISE offers three concentrations in the on-site intensive
study for B.A. degree students enrolled in the IDP through
Burlington College: Ecological Building, Social Theory and
Action, and Ecological Land Use. Each concentration's
thematic core serves to guide students' learning, which takes
place through a flexible combination of course work, hands-on
projects, workshops, and facilitated study groups.

Our Spring 2003 offerings include a wide array of courses and
facilitated study, noncredit workshops, and intensive practica.

http://www.social-ecology.org/jump.php?id=149

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Summer Institute Programs

In its twenty-eighth year, the ISE's internationally acclaimed
Summer Institute programs present both a comprehensive
exploration of the critical problems we face and a
revolutionary reconstructive perspective focusing on the
process of ecologically oriented social change. It provides an
integrated college-level curriculum in each of its programs.

The Summer Institute consists of four distinct programs:

Sustainable Design, Building, & Land Use

Using the Institute for Social Ecology's 50-acre site as a
laboratory, this program provides instruction in permaculture,
organic agriculture, community design, ecological building,
and forest ecology, while fostering a critical understanding of
the social and political contexts in which these alternatives
may be applied.

http://www.social-ecology.org/jump.php?id=145

Arts, Media, Activism, & Social Change

This fourteen-day program is intended for artists, activists,
and media makers who wish to create and examine socially
engaged art and media projects. Over the course of the
program, students will receive hands-on experience and
exposure to a wide array of activist art and media, including
spoken word, culture jamming, puppetry, audio and video
production, radio production, and web-based media and art.

http://www.social-ecology.org/jump.php?id=146

Ecology and Community

This program is intended as an intensive educational
experience in the field of social ecology. This interdisciplinary,
college-level program explores social ecology, nature
philosophy, community development, political theory, social
movements and activism, popular education, radical
agriculture, capitalism and globalization, racism, feminism,
and more.

http://www.social-ecology.org/jump.php?id=147

Theoretical Inquiries in the Age of Globalization

This eight-day intensive focuses on areas such as philosophy,
social and political theory, and history as part of a scholarly
inquiry into the "age of globalization." By theoretically
exploring the past as well as the present, this continuing
studies program hopes to deepen students' understanding of
dynamic social phenomena such as capitalism, statecraft,
racism, and the devastation of the natural world, to name a
few. This intensive is intended both to rekindle students'
desire for further study and offer intellectual inspiration for
ongoing activist work.

http://www.social-ecology.org/jump.php?id=148

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The Institute for Social Ecology was established in 1974 and
incorporated in 1981 as an independent institution for the
purposes of education, research, and outreach in the field of
social ecology. For over a quarter of a century, ISE has
inspired individuals involved in numerous social change
movements to work toward a directly democratic, liberatory,
and ecological society. The educational programs of the
Institute for Social Ecology have served more than 2,000
students around the world.

For further information on our programs, contact the ISE by
email at info@social-ecology.org, telephone 1 (802) 454-8493,
or visit our web site at http://www.social-ecology.org/."