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Language Scholarship Award Caps Year Abroad
After a year abroad studying public health and international development in Kenya, Hanna Lafferty ’19 is spending her summer break immersed in the Swahili language in Arusha, Tanzania as a member of the U.S. Department of State’s competitive Critical Language Scholarship program. -
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Why Teach in Taiwan? Reflections on immersive learning
From December 2016 to March 2017, nine students from eight countries joined education faculty member Bonnie Tai in Taiwan. For the first three weeks, Suzanne Morse, botany faculty member, was with the class, called Human Ecology Abroad in Taiwan, or HEAT. Students studied Mandarin, explored local food systems, participated in several forms of intercultural education, including a primary school of the indigenous Rukai community, wrote travel essays and epistolary poetry, and interviewed residents about the Japanese occupation, among other independent studies. -
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Conscience, Culture, and Conflict in the Foothills of the Himalayas
Ursa Beckford â17 reflects on his fall term residency in Mussoorie, IndiaââQueen of the Hillsââa north Indian hill station in Uttarakhand, northwest of Nepal and southwest of Tibet, at College of the Atlanticâs Human Ecology Forum.
Courses:
Faculty:
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Gray Cox
Faculty, Philosophy, Peace Studies, & Language Learning
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Karla Peña
Faculty, Spanish