$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.
The 2020-21 class worked on housing construction in Mariana, Florida, which was still recovering from Hurricane Michael
Upcoming Terms & Trip Leaders
every year
- May Term 2024-25 (every year) – Hillary Harder
- May Term 2025-26 (every year) – TBD
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.
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)