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Ecuador: Gender & Culture

Summer 2012 
Ecuador
June 2 - 23

Program Highlights

  • Earn 2 credits while living and working in Ecuador.
  • Experience life within an indigenous community.
  • No language requirement, though Spanish proficiency is preferred.
  • This program carries Gender (GE) and Intercultural (IC) designation.

Program Description

This program is located in the highland area of Otavalo, Ecuador. Students will have classes and spend part of their days working with the indigenous community at Yambiro.

Student will work in collaboration with the Yambiro community in different projects based on student interest and expertise. Some of the ongoing projects at the local school are: English, Art and Physical Education classes or components. If your interest lie more in the health field, the Yambiro community has been building a local clinic which it hopes will serve the immediate community needs. For those interested in more sustainable projects, the people of Yambiro have also identified the need to build a greenhouse where they can grow fruits and vegetables to enrich their diets and also to sell at the local market.

Students will explore the cultural issues that surround the social construction of gender, the representation of men and women in different cultures and languages, the acquisition of gender identity across cultures and the similarities and differences among/between men and women of diverse cultural backgrounds.

This program is taught in English and open to all students. Service-learning is a requirement of this course which will fulfill the GN and EL common curriculum requirement as well as the GWST experiential requirement.

Program Costs

The estimated per student price is $1,500 plus the cost of 2 credits at CSB|SJU (approx. $900) and airfare (approx. $900).  The final price will be confirmed with participants early in the spring semester.

This price includes accommodations during the program; local transportation; most food (two meals per day); two one-day excursions.

Students will be responsible for CSB|SJU tuition for two credits, international round-trip airfare, some meals, personal spending money and any activities not included with the program.

Apply

You must complete the application by no later than January 20th and submit the $300 deposit to the CSB Student Accounts Office.  Students are encouraged to apply early.

Directors

Patricia Bolaños, Gender Studies

LuAnn Reif, Nursing

Judy Purman, Office of Sustainability