University of Texas at El Paso
AC-5: Immersive Experience

This credit recognizes institutions that offer sustainability-focused immersive experience programs. Such programs give students the opportunity to witness and learn in-depth about sustainability challenges and solutions. These programs provide a memorable way for students to deepen and expand their knowledge of sustainability. 1. RARE Partnership - Master’s program UTEP’s Sam Donaldson Center for Communication Studies and Rare, this first-of-its-kind master’s in communication for conservation practitioners offers international students a communication master’s degree with a focus on environmental communication and social change. The two-year training program prepares students to develop location-specific social marketing plans called “pride campaigns,” which are designed to help conservation organizations in more than 50 countries engage community members in conservation practices. 2. Study Abroad in Indonesia - Environmental and Intercultural Communication 3. COMM 4350/5350 4. Internships ( Air quality, ASARCA remediation) 5.Chihuahuan Desert Biodiversity Research Experience for Undergraduates The goal of this NSF funded program is to provide undergraduate students with experience in hypothesis-driven collaborative research utilizing field based and/or laboratory methods every summer and fully engage them in projects associated with the ecology and evolution influencing Chihuahuan Desert biodiversity. 6. Sociology and Anthropology: The department offers an archaeological field school, a 7 week summer class in which students excavate an archaeological site in the field.

Additional website: www. Academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx? Alias is academics.utep.edu/sociology This section was completed by a joint effort by the Sustainability Committee and academic department heads at UTEP.