The UMass Amherst Eco-Rep Program is focused on working towards environmental literacy and leadership both within the program, and on the campus at large. This is an academic course open to students of all interests and education levels; it is especially encouraged to those who wish to gain or expand their knowledge in sustainability and environmental literacy. Eco-Reps build a foundational knowledge surrounding issues of sustainability and explore how best to raise awareness about these issues amongst their peers.

The UMass Amherst Eco-Rep Program is focused on working towards environmental literacy and leadership both within the program, and on the campus at large. This is an academic course open to students of all interests and education levels; it is especially encouraged to those who wish to gain or expand their knowledge in sustainability and environmental literacy. Eco-Reps build a foundational knowledge surrounding issues of sustainability and explore how best to raise awareness about these issues amongst their peers.

This course is designed to give graduate students in the life sciences experience in communicating science to audiences outside their academic field. Lectures will provide opportunities for science communication and effective ways of engaging non-scientific audiences. Students will give brief oral popular-science presentations, participate in discussions about science communication, write and peer-review other students' popular science articles, and work in groups to propose potential new outreach programs.

Directed research project arranged on an individual basis between PhD student and professor.

Contact department for description.

Presentations of research by Organismic and Evolutionary Biology graduate students.

A house has its stories, whether or not we tell them. How do buildings (specifically houses, dwellings) and the built landscape contribute to a piece of fiction? Students in this fiction workshop will spend time reading contemporary writers' works of location, and will begin to define and describe their own location(s) through fiction. Students should be prepared to write often with and without prompts, and commit to thoughtful and engaged responses to peers' manuscripts. Students will produce a body of work that demonstrates understanding of key concepts.

This class is designed to provide students with an understanding of canine communication, health, handling and development and hands-on experience in training psychiatric, medical assist/alert, and mobility assistance service dogs.