| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 47.19 |
| Liaison | V.S. (Raghu) Raghavan |
| Submission Date | Sept. 6, 2012 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Mount Holyoke College
ER-12: Sustainability Immersive Experience
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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2.00 / 2.00 |
Nancy
Apple Director Environmental Health & Safety |
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Does the institution offer a program that meets the criteria for this credit?:
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A brief description of the sustainability-focused immersive experience(s) offered by the institution:
Mount Holyoke, along with Goucher College, offers a 15-week interdisciplinary program each Spring in Monteverde, Costa Rica. The program is open to all majors and offers students a wealth of opportunities to analyze the challenges of sustainability and to search for solutions within the specific context of Costa Rica and of Monteverde. This program focuses on questions such as: How has Costa Rica's development path been shaped by both global and national forces, and how have these, in turn, affected the development of Monteverde and its unique cloud forest environment? What does “sustainability” mean in light of rapidly growing ecotourism and disappearing species? With an emphasis on place-based learning, the program examines not only the theoretical underpinnings of sustainability, but also how these theories play out with real people, organizations, and localities.
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