The Fall 2024 program will be directed by Centre College professor, Dr. 珍妮巴拉德.
Students will take a full course load on the Global Environmental Challenges program.
Students will enroll in three courses in Cuenca over a span of 12 weeks; the fourth
course, Environment, Conservation, and Policy Issues in 厄瓜多尔, will be taught as a
three-week module in the Amazon river basin and the Galapagos. 没有西班牙语
requirement to enroll in the program; however, all students will be required to take a
西班牙语课程在他们的水平. 以下是建议的课程
计划，等待最终教员批准:
- ENS: Environment, Conservation, and Policy Issues in 厄瓜多尔 (all
学生选修本课程)
- This course introduces students to the most influential factors shaping the ecosystems and their conservation, 放眼全球, regional and local factors that determine the climates and the contrasting ecosystems that can be found in 厄瓜多尔. The course includes several field visits to the 厄瓜多尔ian Amazon (Tiputini Biodiversity Station) and the Galapagos Islands. 因此, allowing students to experience first-hand current topics of conservation and policy issues, while discussing the main environmental challenges associated with the conservation of natural ecosystems in
热带发展中国家.
- ENS: Environmental Challenges: Linking the Global to the Local
- 本课程探讨昆卡当地的环境挑战, 厄瓜多尔, 并探索与更广泛的全球背景的联系. Emphasis will be placed on learning about the ways and beliefs of local 文化 and understanding the difficulties in maintaining cultural identity in today’s environmental economic climate. This course will focus on rural communities, sustainability, food systems, and agriculture.
- Experiential learning will be a significant element of the course, and students will visit local communities and NGOs so that students can learn from those who are most affected by these issues.
- 拉丁美洲n Studies: Human Relationships with the Environment in
拉丁美洲
- 拉丁美洲 is home to some of the world’s most famous landscapes from Amazonian forests that metabolize carbon to Andean peaks where melting glaciers portray the devastating effect of 气候变化. 从殖民时代的银矿到广袤的单一作物棕榈油, 甘蔗, 还有香蕉种植园, 拉丁美洲n natural resources have played a central role in the 发展 of economies, 文化, 以及该地区和世界各地的社会. This course will survey changing human relationships with the natural world in 拉丁美洲 from the pre-Columbian period; through colonization and the colonial era; through the independence struggles of the nineteenth century; to contested visions of nationalism, 经济发展, and use of natural resources in the twentieth century; on down to 环境al questions that the region faces today. 我们将研究不同的民族是如何理解的, 住在一起, 使用, and transformed 环境 as well as how the natural world has shaped human histories. We will draw on readings from multiple disciplinary perspectives (including history, 人类学, the humanities and geography) to analyze processes of imperialism, 发展, 全球气候变化, 自然资源的退化. Texts and learning materials include: indigenous environmental perspectives, 民族志研究, 一部环境正义纪录片, 关于气候的小说, 环保人士散文, 电影, 短篇小说, 还有描绘自然的诗歌, 环境, 自然灾害, 气候变化, 以及环保行动主义. We will also have local guest lecturers and artists as visitors to this class.
- SPA 100-300: Options include two levels of beginner, two levels of intermediate,
two levels of advanced grammar, and two advanced content courses.
