Environmental Studies Program

Study Abroad

Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM)

Augsburg College

The Center for Global Education at Augsburg College (CGE) offers semester programs in Central America, Mexico, and Southern Africa.

  • Social Change in Central America: Exploring Peace, Justice, and Community Engagement
  • Southern Africa
  • Mexico: Social Work
  • Mexico: Crossing Borders
  • Mexico: Migration, Globalization and the Environment

Boston University

Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE)

The Institute for Tropical Marine Ecology

International Honors Program (I.H.P.) – multiple locations

International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership

Kalamazoo International Sustainable Development Studies Institute

International Sustainable Development Studies Institute
Kalamazoo College

  • Thailand: People, Environment, and Development
  • Ecuador: Environment and Ecology
  • Costa Rica: Sustainable Human Development in Latin America

Kansas University

Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)

  • Costa Rica
  • South Africa

Pitzer College

  • Costa Rica: Spanish language, Tropical Ecology, Human Ecology

The School for Field Studies (S.F.S.)

  • Costa Rica: Sustainable Development Studies
  • Turks & Caicos Islands: Marine Resources Management
  • Kenya: Wildlife Management
  • Australia: Tropical Rainforest Management
  • Mexico: Marine Mammals & Coastal Studies

The School for International Training (S.I.T.)

  • Australia: Natural and Cultural Ecology
  • Australia: Sustainability and the Environment
  • Belize: Natural and Cultural Ecology
  • Botswana: Ecology and Conservation
  • Brazil: Amazon Resource Management and Human Ecology
  • Ecuador: Comparative Ecology and Conservation
  • Iceland: Renewable Energy, Technology, and Resource Economics (Summer Program)
  • India: Culture and Development
  • Madagascar: Ecology and Conservation
  • Mekong Delta: Natural and Cultural Ecology
  • Panama: Development and Conservation
  • Panama: Marine Ecology and Conservation (Summer Program)
  • Tanzania: Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Tanzania: Zanzibar—Coastal Ecology

Domestic

  • Woods Hole, MA: Environmental Science at the Marine Biological Laboratory

Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Botswana SIT: Ecology and Conservation
  • Kenya SFS: Ctr. for Wildlife Management Studies, Nairobi
  • SIT: Coastal Studies
  • St. Lawrence University, Nairobi
  • Minnesota: Studies in International Development
  • Madagascar SIT: Ecology and Conservation
  • Namibia Augsburg College: Nation Building, Globalization and Decolonizing the Mind
  • South Africa SIT: Durban: Reconciliation and Development
  • Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)
  • Tanzania SIT: Wildlife Ecology & Conservation, Moshi area
  • SIT: Zanzibar: Coastal Ecology

North Africa and the Middle East

  • Senegal Living Roots: Sustainable Community Development

Far East

  • Vietnam and Cambodia SIT Mekong Delta: Natural and Cultural Ecology
  • Thailand Kalamazoo: People, Environment and Development
  • China University of Missouri-Columbia: Environmental Studies in China

South Asia

  • Nepal SIT: Culture and Development, Natural & Human Environment
  • India SIT: Culture and Development

Southeast Asia

  • Currently no programs found

Austraila and New Zealand

  • Australia SIT: Natural & Cultural Ecology
  • SIT: Sustainability & the Environment
  • SFS: Center for Rainforest Management Studies

Western Europe

  • Iceland SIT: Renewable Energy, Technology, and Resource Economics (Summer)
  • Greece University of Oregon: Sustainable Community Development

Eastern Europe and Russia

  • Currently no programs found

Latin America

  • Brazil SIT: Amazon Resource Management and Human Ecology
  • Ecuador SIT: Comparative Ecology, Quito/Amazon Basin
  • Kalamazoo--Environ. Studies Program, Univ. San Francisco de Quito
  • Boston University: Tropical Ecology Program
  • Ecuador/Galapagos International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership: Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation in the Galápagos
  • Politics, the Environment, and the Galápagos
  • Peru Pro Peru with La Universidad Peruanade Ciencias Aplicadas

Central America

  • Belize SIT: Natural and Cultural Ecology
  • Costa Rica ACM: Tropical Field Research at San Jose
  • Boston University: Tropical Ecology Program
  • Kalamazoo: Sustainable Human Development in Latin America
  • Kansas University: Tropical Biology
  • Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)
  • Pitzer College: Spanish language, Tropical Ecology, Human Ecology
  • SFS: Center for Sustainable Development Studies
  • Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua
  • Augsburg College: Sustainable Development & Social Change in Central America (you go to all three; how cool is that?)
  • Mexico SFS: Marine Mammals & Coastal Studies
  • Mexico: Crossing Borders: Gender and Social Change in Mesoamerica
  • Mexico: Social and Environmental Justice in Latin America
  • Panama SIT: Development and Conservation
  • SIT: Marine Ecology and Conservation (Summer Program)

Carribean

  • West Indies SFS: Center for Marine Resource Studies, Turks and Caicos
  • Dominica: Institute for Tropical Marine Ecology

Special programs (multiple locations)

  • I.H.P. Rethinking Globalization: Nature, Culture, and Justice
  • Indigenous Perspectives
  • Cities in the 21st Century