Learn and earn credits as you explore the outdoors.
Sailing the Chesapeake Bay is a 4.5-credit program that combines classroom study of the history, ecology, and cultural significance of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed (including central Pennsylvania) with outdoor experiences that will illustrate, supplement, and enhance classroom work. The course work will be devoted to reading accounts of the Chesapeake dating from the seventeenth century, popular treatments of Bay history by writers like James Michener, nature writing by William Warner and Tom Horton, and the treatment of the Chesapeake in the work of novelists like Robert Day and John Barth.
Enhancement activities will include exploration by canoe of the Chesapeake Bay watershed in central Pennsylvania; exploration by canoe or kayak of the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers in the Harrisburg area; a weekend of public service arranged through a local watershed advocacy group, such as the ClearWater Conservancy or the Chesapeake Bay Foundation; and a sailing trip on a Bay skipjack. All these activities will be conducted on weekends during the fall semester. As a student in this program, you will become familiar with the Bay and its watershed in both an abstract and an experiential sense.
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Every Wednesday of the fall semester from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Classroom: TBD |
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Thursday, September 24,
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Weekend of sailing and Bay studies at Echo Hill Outdoor School, Worton, Maryland (including trips to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and the Pickering Creek Audubon Center) |
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Saturday, October 3 |
Paddle on the main stem of the Susquehanna at Harrisburg, with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation |
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Saturday, October 24 Sunday, October 25 |
West Branch paddle |
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Saturday, October 31 Rain date: November 14 |
Service project with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (planting stream buffers in Lancaster County) |
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