Create an innovative and highly engaging course that combines the two disciplines and then get support from an existing degree program at your institution. Once it is approved by the curriculum committee, promote it widely. After a couple of years, make it available online through your institution¹s distance degree program. Although not as easy as it sounds, most institutions are very interested in courses that are cross-disciplinary and target a broader audience by relating the fundamentals to topics of increasing societal interest. Just need to think outside-the-box.
Steve On 2/1/16, 11:23 AM, "Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news on behalf of Kay Shenoy" <ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU on behalf of kay.yellowt...@gmail.com> wrote: >Does anybody have ideas on how to promote Ecology among Biology >undergraduates? We are finding that Biology majors are increasingly >focused on health-care fields; many students consider Ecology >³unimportant² for their future careers, and it is not addressed in the >MCAT exams, so they give it a low priority. How does one increase >enrollment in Ecology courses, and particularly in schools that do not >have dedicated Ecology departments? Any thoughts would be welcome!
