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About Dr. John Confer
- Education, Teaching & Scholarship
- Educational Background:
- PhD, Major: Recreation & Parks, Minors: Geography/GIS, Environmental
Resource Mgmt.; The Pennsylvania State University; University Park, PA
- MS, Major: Natural Resource Mgmt. & Engineering, Minor: Geography/GIS,
University of Connecticut; Storrs, CT
- BS, Dual Major: Recreation & Leisure Services Mgmt. and Environmental
Studies, East Stroudsburg University; East Stroudsburg, PA
- Pre-Education/Pre-Engineering, Lehigh County Community
College; Schnecksville, PA
- Welding Technology, Northampton County Community College;
Bethlehem, PA
- AAS, Major: Toolmaking Technology, Minor: Welding Technology,
Pennsylvania College of Technology/Williamsport Area Community College; Williamsport, PA
- Lehigh County Area Vocational Technical School,
Major: Machine tool trades; Schnecksville, PA
- Slatington High School/Northern Lehigh High School, Major: Vo-Tech/General
- Teaching Interests:
- My general area of interest includes parks and
recreation including history/philosophy of recreation & leisure,
recreation evaluation & research, computer applications in
recreation, parks & tourism, recreation programming & leadership,
recreation administration & management and trends in recreation &
leisure. Within this general area I am most interested in
natural resource recreation, outdoor & adventure recreation, park management,
forest recreation, nature-based tourism, ecotourism, heritage
tourism, commercial recreation and other forms
of alternative tourism such as heritage tourism, agri-tourism, edu-tourism,
geo-tourism
and sustainable tourism. Also, I have interests and experience
in teaching more advanced and focused in areas such as water-based
recreation, coastal recreation/tourism development &
management, recreation ecology, behavioral aspects of natural
resource recreation, spatial aspects of leisure/recreation & tourism
geographies and geographic information systems in parks & recreation
management. Through my educational background and practical
work in the areas above I have gained experiences and skills that
allow me to teach general courses for park, recreation, tourism and
sport majors in statistics & evaluation procedures, research methods
& program evaluation, using specialized statistical software
(quantitative & qualitative), and GIS software.
- Teaching Philosophy:
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Pacific Rim National Park, BC, Canada |
Everglades National Park, FL, USA |
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