A Very Unique College in Which to Study Environmental Science
If you get cold just thinking about Alaska, or if your idea of a great time outdoors is putting on headphones and walking your dog for ten or fifteen minutes, read no further.
If, however, you love outdoor sports and the great outdoors, and want to immerse yourself in them during your college years (and perhaps beyond), pay attention. You are about to be impressed with a university you probably no nothing about.
Alaska Pacific University is an institution very unlike others. It's two hundred acre campus, which students and faculty share with moose, birds, and other animals, includes miles of walking trails and a lake. Education is not limited to the classroom. And, the University mission includes producing environmentally aware and friendly citizens.
The University offers fairly traditional sounding business and liberal arts offerings, along with programs in environmental science, environmental policy and planning, and outdoor studies.
With what the University calls the "true wilderness" within a half hour from campus, where better to learn about the environment?
And, the University extends learning well beyond the borders of Alaska. During the January block, students have been able to take an oceanography course in Hawaii, a tropical ecology course in Borneo, or travel elsewhere to broaden themselves.
APU is certainly not for everyone, but if the environment and the great outdoors are your passions, the University has a lot to offer you.
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