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Information about the course “Global-Local Challenges to Sustainability”:
Dates: January 9 to April 24, 2010
Credit hours: 16 semester hours
Application Deadline for 2011: June, 2010
Contacts: Cristina Rubio
crubiorey@mvinstitute.org
Carol Donhauser
cdonhaus@goucher.edu
Joanne Picard
jpicard@mtholyoke.edu
Admissions: Mt. Holyoke and Goucher students will receive priority admission, but Five College students and others are welcome to apply.
Housing: While in Monteverde students stay with host families.
Requirements: General requirements for academic leave of absence, minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.7, and others as required by participating College. At least one semester of Spanish is strongly recommended.
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 Mount Holyoke College and Goucher College at the Monteverde Institute
Each spring semester, Mount Holyoke College and Goucher College will offer a 15 week interdisciplinary program at the MVI to examine the environmental, social, economic, and cultural challenges that arise from increasing global-local interaction in the specific context of Costa Rica and of Monteverde. The emphasis of the program examines how Costa Rica’s development path has been shaped by both global and national forces, and how have these, in turn, affected the development of a specific community like Monteverde and its unique cloud forest environment? It questions the definition of “sustainability” in light of rapidly growing ecotourism and disappearing species?
Classes will include overnight field trips, site visits, and guest lectures by local grassroots activists as well as world-renowned scientists. Students will conduct their own independent research, in the social science or natural science area, and may have the opportunity to volunteer with a local organization in conjunction with their research project. The unique environment of this program provides students with a wealth of learning opportunities to analyze the challenges of sustainability and to search for solutions.
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