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Tuition, room and board and $300 travel fee.
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 construction skills to participate, but you do need to be physically able to do repair and clean-up work for 8 hours per day.
The disaster site could be anywhere in the U.S. The upcoming destination is announced in early February. Previous class locations included Mariana, Florida, Red Lake, Minnesota, and Selma, Alabama. The re-building has been in response to tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, fire.
Upcoming Terms & Trip Leaders
- May Term 2025-26 – April 29 to May 20, 2025
- Mike McHugh and Dale Klassen
- Offered every other year.
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
- GLST 251: Resilience and Renaissance (Detroit) OR Ecology and Sustainability in the Indian Himalaya
- GLST 300: Global Issues, Ecological Justice
All sequential SST courses are 3 credit hours. GLST 241 and 300 are on campus.
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