Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies
EMU student Trevor Weaver (right) and an Au Sable classmate learn hands-on about work in the field of environmental science.
EMU is a "Participating College" of the Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies, a Christian institute whose mission is to bring healing to the biosphere and the whole of Creation.
Au Sable achieves these goals through academic courses and programs for college and university students, research projects, seminars, and other educational activities.
Enrollment
Students can enroll for Au Sable courses through EMU. Tuition (set by EMU) and room and board (set by Au Sable) is paid directly to EMU. Course credits earned at Au Sable appear directly on the student's EMU transcript. As a "Participating College"
EMU is eligible for at least one $1,200 fellowship each year. Au Sable also offers other fellowships and financial aid to qualifying students.
EMU student Aaron Freed helps research students tag small mammals as part of a mark-recapture study for his wildlife stewardship class through Au Sable, summer 2007. Here they place an ear tag on a deer mouse. Also pictured is Stephanie Steinhoff, now a grad student at University of Wisconsin.
Locations
The Au Sable courses most available to EMU students are those offered during their May term and the two Summer Sessions. Most of the courses are offered at their Great Lakes campus, a camp-like setting in northern Lower Peninsula Michigan.
Au Sable also offers courses at its Pacific Rim campus on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound, in Kenya, South India, and Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay.
Courses
Courses offered at the Au Sable Institute (Great Lakes campus) are recommended for environmental science or biology majors.
Any of the courses offered at any of the Au Sable campuses can be taken for biology or environmental science credit.
Certain courses are especially recommended because of the unique resources of
Au Sable or because they supplement rather than replicate courses
already offered on campus.
