[Scpg] 9th Annual Permaculture Design Course Online

[PermaCourse at aol.com]

Elfin Permaculture's 9th Annual Permaculture Design Course Online begins Oct. 
3, 2004. Students in the six-month course complete four report each, 
including a full permaculture design report, follow weekly reading assignments, and 
participate in questions and discussion via email.  The heart of the course is 
The  Permaculture Deign Course CD-ROM, which includes more than 300 files 
including several "posts" of course notes and readings for each of the 21 course 
modules, numerous papers and pamphlets, at least one sample of a full 
permaculture design, sample standard designs, databases, and other resource materials 
including a full length book.  New in Cycle 9 of the course will be the first 
installment of a course index, which already includes more than 1,000 indexed 
terms. The course CD, now in enlarged and improved version 3, is also available 
in a self-study edition and an economy edition that includes only the weekly 
posts and course tools, but not any of the additional reading materials.  
Purchasers of the full self-study edition may monitor the course at no tuition 
charge. 

The deadline for scholarship applications is Aug. 1 each year.  We encourage 
students to seek scholarships from other sources.  Interns at Barking Frogs 
Permaculture Center have the option of taking the course free of tuition charge 
while they are here.

For more details about the course, download the following documents from the 
Barking Frogs web site, http://barkingfrogspc.tripod.com/frames.html      :

    • Course Protocol.  This is a complete overview of the course content, 
methodology, payment options, and certification requirements.
    • Course Assignment Schedule.   This specifies all reading assignments 
and project deadlines in the course, except weekly course posts which are on the 
CD.
    • Course Reading List.  This lists all books, papers and CD-ROMs that are 
required reading and gives a highly discounted package price in several 
options: certificate student, monitor/self-study, and economy.
    • Course Fee Table.  This specified current fees, married and group 
discounts, etc., for all options conceived so far.  Tuition for the entire curse 
paid in advance is $1200.
    • Course Registration Form.
    •  Scholarship Information

For information on Barking Frogs internships, go to the same web site and 
download the Intern FAQs.  This document is due to be enlarged, but the 
information is still accurate.

    Online course designer Dan Hemenway began teaching permaculture 
certificate courses in 1984 at the urging of Bill Mollison and others.  Cynthia 
Hemenway, who teaches the Design for Health module and serves as back-up if Dan is 
unavailable for any reason has been a health professional all her life.  She is 
a CNM Nurse Practitioner in OB/GYN at a local tertiary care hospital and is 
launching her own Design for Health Practice.  South African Willem Smuts has 
been involved in all of the online course cycles to date.  A geologist and a 
humanist, not to mention humorist, Willem brings many vital perspectives to the 
course. Willem's comments always enrich the course.

Instructor resumes may be found on the web site.


Please read the course protocol carefully before asking questions.  Thanks.


Dan Hemenway

Barking Frogs Permaculture Center  
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The protocol for our Annual Permaculture Design Course Online is at    
http://barkingfrogspc.tripod.com/frames.html      
 
Our 8th annual Permaculture Design Course Online cycle is underway.  Late 
registrations are accepted.  Check http://barkingfrogspc.tripod.com/frames.html  
for details. The 9th annual online course begins Oct. 3, 2004.

A list by topic of all Yankee Permaculture titles also may be found at 
http://csf.colorado.edu/perma/ypc_catalog.html