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This wiki supports the 2007 Alma College Spring Term course Cross-Cultural Learning: Ecuador. While everyone is invited to browse the site, editing is restricted to class members.
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What's New
We are working on the Travelogue, which can be accessed from the Course schedule. Each day is a link to a page about our activities. Check it out!
We are also uploading some of our pictures into our Ecuador Image Pools. Check them for collections of images related to our activities.
Course Overview
- Assisting in classroom teaching (primarily Education majors)
- Observing at a local hospital or clinic (primarily Exercise and Health Science majors)
- Continuing Spanish language lessons (primarily Spanish majors and minors)
- Studying cloud forest ecology (primarily Biology majors)
There will be weekday and weekend exclusions, including to the Cotopaxi volcano (the highest active volcano in the world), and the famous Otavalo craft market. The trip finishes with a four-day excursion to the Galapagos Islands, where there are fabulous wildlife viewing opportunities. View the course schedule for details.
Our primary host in Ecuador is the Academia Latinoamericana, who is handling all our in-country arrangements.
Course Schedule and Travelogue
The course schedule contains a day by day itinerary for the trip. It will also double as a travelogue. Each day in the schedule will link to a page (to be constructed during the trip) that documents the activities of that day.
Preliminary Course Meetings
There will be four Preliminary Course Meetings during winter term:
- January 9
- February 6
- March 6
- April 3
Attendance at these meetings is mandatory. This is an academic class, and conflicts with practices and other non-academic activities need to be resolved in favor of the class.
Student Responsibilities and Grading
Beyond being engaged, cooperative and flexible, each student in the class will be responsible for four activities:
- A group presentation during one of the Preliminary Course Meetings (10% of final grade).
- An individual project conducted during the first week of term, i.e., while on campus (30% of final grade).
- Updating the class travelogue for a particular day of the term (20% of final grade).
- Creating a journal or individual-group resource (40% of final grade).
