ACADEMIC: Graduate Program
Coursework: Includes 3-hour credit course, EDP 5393 Cultural Issues with Children and Families
Term: Mid to Late May
Faculty Directors: Dr. Tamara Hodges and Dr. Terrill Saxon
Accompanied by faculty, graduate students travel to non-tourist locations in southern Costa Rica on the Osa Peninsula, one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. Students study, learn, and work in different cultural settings, interacting with an NGO and the University of Costa Rica at a remote field station, that conduct scientific and ecological work as community empowerment projects. Students get to see an area of the world not often visited by outsiders and to study the educational and cultural systems there.
Cost: approximately 1,600.00 plus airfare; scholarships available.
Highlights:
- Rustic setting in southern Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula
- Visits to local schools to interact with students and teachers
- Guided tour of Corcovado Rain Forest (waterfalls, exotic animals and plants, ziplining)
- Beach day at Drake Bay including boat ride
