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Starting Soon: Free Nature Journal College Course

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7 Mar

I’m excited to tell you about a free college course that I signed up to take!  I think some of you, especially Charlotte Mason or creatively homeschooling parents, would love to take it as well – perhaps with your teens.  The free course is called Drawing Nature, Science and Culture: Natural History Illustration 101 from the University of Newcastle in Australia.  In the homeschooling world, I’d simply call it a college course for your nature journal. …Taken from university instructors.


Nature Journal Course

What is in this nature journal course:

Here is the course schedule:

  • Week 1: Introduction to the course
  • Week 2: Observational Drawing
  • Week 3: Field sketching and recording techniques
  • Week 4: The structure of flowers and leaves
  • Week 5: The structure of mammals and birds
  • Week 6: Rendering (creating finished artworks)

Here’s the official introductory video:

How to enroll and participate in Nature Illustration 101:

The Nature Illustration 101 course begins April 3, 2018. There’s still plenty of time to register, but do it soon so you’ll be ready!

The course will go on for 6 weeks, and the time needed (“effort”) is 3-6 hours per week (all of them pleasant, I’m sure!)

You will not receive a credit for taking the free course, but you can purchase a “verified certificate” from EdX.  I don’t know anything about what that really means, but you’ll see the option when you sign up.  a tip: I’m not an affiliate of EdX, but wanted to tell you that I noticed eBates will give you 6.5% cash back – just thought I’d throw that out there, if you wanted to go the certificate way.

 

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    September 7, 2018 at 5:22 PM

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