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opportunity to live in paradise, meet like-minded UVM students, and have a positive impact on the local community.
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This program focuses on sustainable development, combining academic coursework with project-based service learning. Belizewith its communitybased approach to solving problems and unique natural and cultural resources, including one of the most protected and bio-diverse ecosystems on earth provides the laboratory in which classroom theories can be applied in a developing country context. Spring semester 2013 will be the sixth year of the Belize Semester Abroad Program in Sustainable Development. The program will continue to emphasize in-depth travel within Belize, exposure to the diversity of cultures there, ample time outside the classroom and in the field, and a significant commitment to service learning.
PROGRAM IN BRIEF
What does the program involve?
ive and study in Belize (Central America) L with UVM faculty ake field-based coursesfocusing T on issues of sustainable development with UVM and Belizean faculty (all courses taught in English) et hands-on experience relevant to your G academic work through service learning pend time living in a Maya village, in the S rainforest, and on islands on the barrier reef, and visit wildlife preserves and Maya archeological sites ractice Spanish (much of Belize P is bilingual)
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ACADEMIC PROGRAM
We anticipate the 18-credit program will consist of the following courses:
Development and Indigenous Peoples (Filiberto Penados) Ridges to Reef: A Conservation Approach to Watershed Ecology (Colin Young) Wildlife Conservation & Communities: Issues & Approaches (Isabelle PaquetDurand) Applications of Sustainable Development: Service Learning (Jay Ashman) 6 credits Intercultural Competence (Meg Ashman)
UVM FACULTY
Jay Ashman, JD, is a senior lecturer in CDAE and the programs academic director; he has taught Applications of Sustainable Development in Belize for several years. Meg Ashman, MA, is a professor emerita and the programs coordinator; she has taught Intercultural Competence in Belize for several years.
ASSOCIATED FACULTY
Isabelle Paquet-Durand, DVM and PhD, has 15 years of experience in Latin America working in wildlife and public health and conservation. Filiberto Penados, PhD, founded the Tumul Kin (Maya) Center of Learning and has taught in his native Belize since 2000. Colin Young, PhD, an ecologist, is program director of the National Protected Areas Secretariat in the Belize Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Jay Ashman, Senior Lecturer Department of Community Development and Applied Economics (CDAE) 203 Morrill Hall Burlington, Vermont 05401 jay.ashman@uvm.edu learn.uvm.edu/travel/belize
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