Study Abroad
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Global Perspectives in Healthcare: Italy (BIOL 40703)
This course aims to give the students a historical and current view of Italy’s healthcare system. Under the guidance of local healthcare officials, nurses, and doctors, students will explore different aspects of healthcare delivery, policy, and practice. Students will also gain an understanding of how culture, diet, and lifestyle contribute to environments and systems of health. Students will have the opportunity to experience the Italian lived experience and compare and contrast that to the American Models. Students will also have the opportunity to visit and enjoy the people and culture of Italy.
Students must attend pre-trip meetings during the Spring Semester.
Next Offered: Summer 2024
Travel Dates: May 30 - June 17, 2024
Tropical Biology (BIOL 50903)
This course introduces students to the animals, plants, and ecosystems of the New World tropics, and the provides them with the opportunity to conduct their own research project in Costa Rica. Lecture topics include tropical climate and ecosystems, evolutionary patterns in the tropics, and conservation of biodiversity. The field experience in Costa Rica exposes students to coastal ecosystems (tide pools, coral reefs, mangroves, and seagrass beds) as well as cloud forest, pre-montane rainforest, lowland rainforest, and tropical dry forest habitats. This semester long course is offered in the spring semester of odd years and meets on T/R for lecture each week and a 10-day trip to Costa Rica, including 2 travel days, over Spring Break. We visit cloud forests, the south Caribbean coast, the TCU Research Station in the central mountains, and the river systems and tropical dry forest of the northern Pacific. During the extended stay at the TCU Research Station, students will work in groups to conduct their research projects in pre-montane rainforest habitat.
Next Offered: TBD
Travel Dates: TBD
Open to: Students that have completed 6 hours of BIOL
Marine Biology of the Tropics (BIOL 50803)
This course provides an introduction to the marine animals, plants, and ecosystems of the New World tropics. Lecture topics include tropical oceanography and ecosystems, evolutionary patterns in the tropics, island biogeography, and conservation of marine biodiversity. This semester long course consists of two hours of lecture each week and one week of field work in Belize. During this trip students will spend five nights at the IZE Marine Station on Southwater Caye, where they will explore various marine habitats (coral reefs, mangroves, beaches and seagrass beds). Additionally, they will spend two days on mainland Belize visiting the rainforest of the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary and Belize Zoo.
Next Offered: TBD
Travel Dates: TBD
Open To: Students that have completed 6 hours of BIOL