By being part of this
program, students will be able to:
– Live with a Costa Rican family.
– Earn 15 credits.
– Get to know about the tropical ecosystems present in Central America.
– Learn to be environmentally literate individuals.
– Visit different conservation areas and learn about different life zones.
– Improve their Spanish skills.
– Learn and be part of different Costa Rican cultural aspects.
Field trips to provide students with the basic knowledge to better
understand the ecological processes that take part in tropical ecosystems:
guided walks, data collection, sample collection and tree planting in
environmentally sensitive locations.
Visits to the Pacific and Caribbean coasts to offer students an explicit and comprehensible characterization of marine ecosystems, their flora and fauna, and the
biotic-abiotic interactions that influence the presence of organisms in each marine ecosystem.