Meets the following requirements: HS

In this course students develop key skills needed to pursue learning, research and action for human ecological projects in cross-cultural settings. These include skills in ethnographic observation, historical interpretation, social analysis, language, communication, problem solving, negotiation, and project planning and implementation.In practicing these skills students will learn substantial bodies of information about the context of issues in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and apply this information and their skills in a major independent project that demonstrates their abilities to pursue subsequent learning, research and action in Latin America on their own. Course activities will provide opportunities to make extensive and increasing use of Spanish skills.

Level Introductory / Intermediate. *HS*