1 Orientation: all students start here 2 Week 1: What is Ecological Design? 3 Week 2: Whole Systems Design 4 Week 3: Ethics and Access to Land 5 Week 4: Principles of Ecological Design 6 Week 5: Biomimicry and Patterns in Nature 7 Week 6: The Designer Limits the Yield 8 Week 7: Observation and Local Ecosystems 9 Week 8: Zones in Your System 10 Week 9: Understanding Your Sectors 11 Week 10: The Principle of Cyclic Opportunity 12 Week 11: Reading the Land

1 Week 12: Climates, Microclimates, and Season Extension 2 Week 13: Your Home Water System 3 Week 14: Earthworks, Swales, Hügelkultur 4 Week 15: Life in the Soil 5 Week 16: Bugs, Bees, and Integrated Pest Management
 6 Week 17: Animals in the System 7 Week 18: Keeping Chickens and other Barnyard Birds 8 Week 19: Trees and Tree Crops 9 Week 20: Shrubs, Hedges, and Hedgerows 10 Week 21: Growing Vegetables 11 Week 22: Biodiversity and Why it Matters 12 Week 23: Plant Propagation: How to Make Free Plants! 13 Week 24: Plant Breeding, Seed Stewardship, and You 14 Week 25: How to Grow a Food Forest 15 Week 26: Eat the Weeds! 
 16 Week 27: Growing Medicinal Herbs at Home 17 Week 28: Food Preservation and Storage 18 Week 29: Big Land 19 Week 30: Mid-Course Review

1 Week 31: Aesthetics and Why They Matter 2 Week 32: Alternative Economics 3 Week 33: The Waste Cycle 4 Week 34: Mentorship and Volunteering 5 Week 35: How to Measure (and Reduce) Your Ecological Footprint 6 Week 36: Regenerative Technology 7 Week 37: Eco Building, Green Building, Earthships, Oh My! 8 Week 38: Invisible Structures 9 Week 39: Social Systems Design 10 Week 40: Placemaking 11 Week 41: Ecovillages 12 Week 42: Your Inner Landscape 13 Week 43: Finding Your Niche 14 Week 44: Eco-Activism and Organizing Events 15 Week 45: Group Process and Project Management 16 Week 46: World Cafe and the Art of Hosting 17 Week 47: Raising Funds for Your Projects 18 Week 48: Conflict Resolution 19 Week 49: Ecofeminism 20 Week 50: Permavangelism: how NOT to spread the word 21 Week 51: Your Design Project 22 Week 52: Your Permaculture Design Presentation