SPAN 300MM - Colombia: Explore and Serve

Institution:

Westminster College (Salt Lake City)

Subject:

Spanish

Description:

This study experience will provide students the opportunity to immerse themselves in the Spanish language while exploring Colombian culture, social movements, and history. Students will also study first hand aspects of this country's diverse landscapes, geology, ecology, sustainable agriculture, as well as its approach to public health and environmental challenges. Students will actively participate in public health and environmental-based service learning projects with local community partners. This course will also involve field projects to (1) evaluate the ecosystem services provided by paramos (unique mountain wetlands) and their impact on water quality, (2) quantify the impacts of agriculture on soils, and (3) evaluate the impacts of improper waste disposal in an urban canyon on water quality parameters in the associated stream. This course fulfills the Engaging the World requirement. Students will further connect these field studies to service learning projects in the same communities by developing and implementing a community survey instrument on public health and perceptions of the environment. Students will then combine their scientific findings with the results of the community survey and their understanding of the culture to develop an educational campaign targeted at elementary students to increase awareness of environmental issues of importance in the community. Through these projects and their observations of the local communities, students will take an interdisciplinary approach to understanding Latin American culture in this region and examine how the environment and landscape in Colombia influence national social movements.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.westminstercollege.edu

Phone Number:

(801) 484-7651

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Four-one-four plan

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