Undergraduate Concentrations
Degree concentrations at Prescott College are intentional clusters of courses designed to provide students with flexible pathways that align with their learning goals. Our concentrations offer a transdisciplinary approach that invites students to engage deeply with topics while recognizing that learning doesn’t always fit neatly within traditional disciplines.
Concentrations are designed to cultivate critical thinking around systems change, resilience, and innovation, focusing on creating sustainable, equitable futures. With a flexible focus, students can develop skills to become thought leaders and problem-solvers in dynamic, evolving fields.
All undergraduate concentrations are available to all Prescott College undergraduate students. Please talk with your advisor to learn more.
Adventure Education
In the Adventure Education concentration, students will apply leadership skills, experiential teaching strategies, and facilitation techniques to create intellectually, emotionally, and physically safe communities within adventure education. Additionally, students will demonstrate technical competency in outdoor disciplines necessary for the implementation of safe, high-quality experiences.
Concentration Requirements:
12+ credits
NOTE: Some of the courses within this concentration will have prerequisites that can be fulfilled through Prescott College courses or through demonstrating sufficient skill proficiency.
| Required Courses *The prerequisites for AE I + II are ADV22010, and ADV24050 or ADV24202, OR sufficient skill proficiency. | *ADV41000 AE I: Expeditionary Instructor Development | 4 credits |
| *ADV41002 AE II: Practicum | 4 credits | |
| ADV46000 Wilderness Orientation Instructor Practicum OR ADV40050 Teaching Assistantship for ADV course | 4-6 credits | |
| Required Certification | Wilderness First Responder (external certification) | |
| Additional Requirements | Outdoor Leadership Days (can be fulfilled through an internship) | 50 leadership days |
Climate Justice
In the Climate Justice concentration, students will understand and be able to communicate the realities of climate change and the ways in which communities can mobilize around climate justice. Students will also develop and implement climate change systems interruptions that allow them to take action towards climate justice.
Concentration Requirements:
20 credits
| Required Courses | ENV46100 Climate Studies: The Future of the Planet | 4 credits |
| CRS43500 Climate Change, Migration Justice, & Investigative Journalism | 4 credits | |
| CRS43015 Critical Human Rights | 4 credits | |
| CRS42100 Color Line in US History, The | 4 credits | |
| ENV47902 Food Justice & Sustainable Food Systems | 4 credits |
Education for Social Justice
In the Education for Social Justice concentration, students—whether they wish to work in the field of K-12 or in the field of community education—will understand the purpose, value, and structures that make up education, and their own responsibility to education as organizers and changemakers.
- Learners will develop an analysis of the ways in which systems of education uphold and deconstruct systems of oppression and power.
- Learners will apply the work of education to the practice of changemaking, and lead and participate in assessment and self-reflection through educational practice.
Concentration Requirements:
12 credits
| Required Courses | CRS22706 Decolonial Pedagogy | 4 credits |
| EDU22707 Critical Literacy for Social Justice | 4 credits | |
| EDU47001 Foundations of Education | 4 credits |
Environmental Studies
In the Environmental Studies concentration, students will analyze current trends and research in environmental studies, with an emphasis on social justice, sustainability, and community development. Additionally, students can explain the historical and cultural foundations of how humans value and manage nature and natural resources.
Concentration Requirements:
16 credits
Equity Studies in Outdoor Leadership
In the Equity Studies in Outdoor Leadership concentration, students will apply leadership skills, experiential teaching strategies, and facilitation techniques to create intellectually, emotionally, and physically safe communities within adventure education. Students will also employ critical theories to analyze and evaluate the relevant foundational theories, essential practices, and current trends in adventure education.
Concentration Requirements:
16+ credits
Natural History Interpretation
In the Natural History Interpretation concentration, using adventure and experiential education modalities, students will integrate ecological knowledge in place-based experiences. Additionally students will demonstrate competency in naturalist interpretation, including knowledge and interpretation of physical, biological, and cultural landscapes.
Concentration Requirements:
20 credits
Marine Studies
In the Marine Studies concentration, students will learn to describe the oceanographic and ecological properties and importance of coastal and marine ecosystems, and identify and analyze the socio-environmental issues facing marine ecosystems and human communities. They will also practice the application of interdisciplinary skills needed to contribute to healthy human-environment relationships and systems.
Concentration Requirements:
20 credits
Outdoor Leadership
In the Outdoor Leadership concentration, students will apply leadership skills, experiential teaching strategies, and facilitation techniques to create intellectually, emotionally, and physically safe communities within adventure education. They will also demonstrate a high-level of technical competency in the outdoor skills needed for the implementation of safe, excellent, and educative outdoor experiences consistent with professional outdoor leaders.
Concentration Requirements:
20+ credits
NOTE: Some of the courses within this concentration will have prerequisites that can be fulfilled through Prescott College courses or through demonstrating sufficient skill proficiency.
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