Foundations courses are designed to provide professionals with the foundational knowledge required to effectively work on projects that seek to be regenerative and sustainable. These courses are typically presented at an advanced undergraduate level, with students expected to already have the basic knowledge covered in the first two or
three years of an undergraduate program in their field

Continuing Education courses are designed to address important and emerging topics, supplementing our standard courses and helping professionals keep up to date. These
courses are all offered online, sometimes as live webinars with Q&A, other times as on- demand courses available through our learning portal.

Lead courses are designed for graduates of the Professional-level courses who also have at least 10 years of industry experience. These students return to participate in a
Professional course in their track, but this time take on the role of a team lead helping to coordinate the capstone design project being undertaken by transdisciplinary group of
Professional students.

Professional courses prepare professionals working in a wide range of fields to take on critical roles in regenerative and sustainable design. These courses are presented at a
graduate-school level and expect the student to have already have completed an undergraduate degree in their field or have equivalent experience.

Introductory courses are open to all learners age 14 and above, offering an introduction and overview of critical topics in regenerative and sustainable design at a level that is broadly accessible to a wide audience.

Introductory courses are typically either online classes taught over several weeks or 2-3 day in-person courses with hands-on and experiential learning.

Dr. Nicole Wagner, associate professor at Texas State University, focuses on soil health and horticultural crop production. She is the founder and project director for Texas State University’s Bobcat Farm, a student-run regenerative fruit and vegetable farm that also serves as a research site for exploring regenerative crop production practices, soil amendments, and composting methods.

She has won several awards, including the Texas State Presidential Excellence in Teaching, and has been a co-principal or principal investigator for grants and private donations totaling over $6million. After completing her Ph.D., she worked at USDA in Washington D.C. forecasting commodity crop production in South America, developing briefing materials for the Secretary of Agriculture, and organizing senior executive-level meetings in Washington D.C. and internationally.

In 2008, she was a member of the U.S. government’s delegation to the United Nations Presidential-Level Conference on World Food Security in Rome. A farmer at heart, she has worked on a large corn-soy farm in Minnesota, as well as an organic vegetable farm and the
largest organic dairy in Montana. Currently, she operates a small biointensive farm in Buda, Texas.