Tracker Program

Centenary College provides credit for three Tracker courses as follows:

STANDARD COURSE:
Course Prerequisites: None
Course Description:  All students are required to take the Standard Course first, regardless of background or experience, in order to establish a consistent foundation of understanding and a common vocabulary upon which to build.  Participants will be shown how to observe nature more deeply, and learn the basic philosophy that Tom Brown (Tracker School Leader) considers the most important part of the school and the basis for all his beliefs.  Through skills that include stalking (the ability to move silently and unseen through the forest) and camouflage (the means of concealment that allows one to become part of one's surroundings), students will learn how to immerse themselves in the natural world.

ADVANCED STANDARD:
Course Prerequisites: Standard
Course Description:  This course goes deeper into the survival skills covered in the Standard class, as well as the philosophy behind them.  It is a very hands-on week in which you will work many of the skills needed in order to make the transition to full survival living.  During the class, you will learn bow building, primitive pottery, basketry, grass mats, flint knapping, fish spears, arrow making and advanced throwing stick as well as building, and sleeping in, your own debris hut.  These and many other essential survival skills will be practiced so that, with some additional dirt time, you will be able to survive in any U.S. wilderness with ease and comfort.

ADVANCED TRACKING AND AWARENESS:
Course Prerequisites: Standard
Course Description: This course expands greatly on the tracking skills covered in your Standard class.  You will cut months off of your dirt time by learning the most effective ways to put the Pressure Release Studies into practice.  A better understanding of track aging, and insight into micro and macro pressure releases, will allow you to track a single animal on a high traffic trail, through various soil and debris conditions.  You will also learn how to push your skills by breaking through your own walls when following a track.  Grandfather always stressed that there can be no tracking without awareness, and in this class you will begin to learn how to incorporate both the physical and spiritual aspects of awareness, including camouflage, concentric rings, and the Sacred Silence, into you tracking tool box.
For more in-depth information, go to the Tracker School website. 

Upon completion of any of the three courses, if you are applying for credit, you must complete a portfolio.  It is best to obtain the syllabus that includes your portfolio requirements before you attend the Tracker School programs.

Contact Al Martin, martina@centenarycollege.edu for a syllabus and identify which course your are taking.