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BBA Mountain Campus Offers Four New Experiential Courses
Building on momentum from a fall semester where more than 400 students participated in orientation, leadership retreats, and other experiential coursework, the BBA Mountain Campus is excited to offer four, two-credit, double-block integrative learning courses that will be hosted at the Peru campus during the 2025-25 school year. An immersive, four-credit semester program will be offered in the 2026-27 school year.
Taught by current Burr and Burton faculty, the Mountain Campus courses will be held during the regular school day and will allow for enrolled students to participate in any after-school activity. Each half-day course will count for two-credits, and all four courses are offered for CP or honors credit.
New courses available for sophomores are CP Literature, Leadership and Learning in the Outdoors, which fulfills the sophomore English credit and a physical education credit and CP Environmental Chemistry and Literature: Investigating our Impact, which fulfills the sophomore English credit and the chemistry credit.
New courses available for juniors and seniors are CP Conservation Biology and Environmental Literacy: Principles and Practice, which fulfills the junior or senior English credit and the biology credit and CP Vermont Ecology and Data Science, which fulfills the biology credit and one math credit.
The Mountain Campus Working Group, established in the spring of 2024 as the semester program began a year-long pause, reviewed program feedback from students, parents and alumni. The group then created a framework for an expanded program that would include two-credit, double block integrative learning courses in addition to an immersive semester experience.
The working group developed the following mission statement for the expanded Mountain Campus: The BBA Mountain Campus immerses students in real-world learning focused on the interdependence of human and natural communities. Students are empowered to deepen their relationship with the world around them through the integration of environmental studies, leadership practice, reflection, and community partnerships.
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