Future costs not available yet.
May 2025 travel fee was $3200 plus tuition, room and board if not already paid with semesters.
For GLST 271, $2770 covered additional tuition, room & board.
Sequential SST
India
Theme: Ecological Justice
What to expect:
- Explore habitats from lowland forests to alpine meadows, and everything in between
- Study ways that people have lived sustainably in these places for centuries… and ways that they haven’t
- Experience the incredible social, linguistic, religious and ethnic diversity of the world’s most populous democracy
- Trek across a Himalayan ridge with the support of porters and donkeys
- Apply lessons from the other side of the world to your own life in Northern Indiana
- See the Taj Mahal in person!
Upcoming Terms & Trip Leaders
every three years
- May Term 2024-25 – Jonathon Schramm
- May Term 2027-28 – Jonathon Schramm
Destination Course Specifics
This course will provide an outstanding opportunity to explore the connections between social structures, economic opportunities, and ecological realities in a diverse and fascinating area of north India. We’ll travel from Delhi into the middle Himalaya, including a porter-supported trek through remote villages up to 12,000’ above sea level.
This course may be added to GLST251 but not taken separately. Students remain in India an additional three weeks beyond May term, wrapping up in mid-June.
Service opportunities will focus on organizations working to improve environmental sustainability, economic viability, and/or social equity.
Additional Courses to Complete SST theme
- GLST 241: Foundations, Environmental Sociology OR Ethnography (3 credit hours on campus)
- GLST 271, Community Engaged Learning, Environmental Disaster and Response with MDS, (3 credit hours)
- GLST 300: Global Issues, Environmental Disaster and Response (3 credit hours on campus)
BlogsWildlife and Humans Side-by-side
We’ve spent almost two days in this area where the Ganges River comes out of the mountains and journeys across the plains. The Ganges’ role in bringing life to the whole of north India (through depositing mineral-rich silt in its annual…
BlogsHeading north to Uttarakhand
We impressed ourselves and each other by gathering promptly at 5:30 a.m. to drive to the train station for the six-hour trip to Haridwar. Once there, we loaded the buses and drove to Rishikesh, a town considered the world capital…