$300 nonrefundable travel fee. Tuition, room and board if not already paid with semesters.
Sequential SST
U.S. Disaster Site
Theme: Ecological Justice
What to expect:
You will spend two weeks volunteering on a recent disaster site with Mennonite Disaster Service. You will live in communal housing and share communal meals. The last four days of the course will be spent at a retreat working on final projects.
You do not need to have construction skills to participate, but you do need to be physically able to do repair and clean-up work for 8 hours per day. Also note that your food choices will be limited to whatever food is prepared for us.
Upcoming Terms & Trip Leaders
every year
- May Term 2025-26 – Mike and Heidi McHugh
- April 29 to May 20, 2025
Destination Course Specifics
This immersive course focuses on the direct environmental disaster impacts on a local community, with an emphasis on social inequalities and the resources, relief, and response available to communities post-disaster. It builds upon social policy, climate change research and disaster management scholarship. Community service and action-research opportunities and expectations are built into the course.
Previous class locations included Mariana, Florida, Red Lake, Minnesota, and Selma, Alabama. The upcoming destination will be announced by early February.
Additional Courses to Complete SST theme
- GLST 241: Foundations, Environmental Sociology OR Ethnography (3 credit hours on campus)
- GLST 251: Cultural Perspectives, Environmental Economics in AZ (3 credit hours)
- GLST 300: Global Issues, Environmental Disaster and Response (3 credit hours on campus)