Spring quarter WWU global learning program in Mexico

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Event Description

ENVS/UEPP 437I: International Business, Planning, and Environmental Sustainability: Mexico’s cultures, histories, activism (5 credits) 

Maximum enrollment: 14.

8 seats left

For complete details and to apply, visit https://studyabroad.wwu.edu/program/international-business-planning-and-environmental-sustainability-mexicos-cultures-histories

Mexico UEPP 437I Program Highlights

  • Pick-up and drop-off at Quéretaro airport
  • Additional transportation
  • Family homestays
  • Sierra Gorda Ranch stay, biodiversity and carbon saving
  • Meals
  • Spanish conversation/culture/classes
  • Planning approaches and tools
  • City tours: Querétaro, San Miguel de Allende. and Guanajuato city tours (UNESCO heritage sites)
  • Community planning with promotion of local heritage values, Quéretaro’s architecture, traditions, customs, and natural and built landscapes
  • Scenic hike to a part of the Bernal monolith, the third largest in the world after the Rock of Gibraltar in Spain and the “Pan de Azúcar” Mountain in Brazil
  • Excursion to Hortalizas el Milagro
  • Study with Caminos de Agua, NAFTA and water issues
  • Opportunities to participate in carbon-offsetting
  • Jalpan de Serra (Route of flavor), Tonatico, Rancho Suelo Vivo, Living Soil Ranch, Mission of Santiago de Jalpan (one of five UNESCO-designated local temples)

Some spring-quarter meetings with travel June 13-21 (between spring and summer quarters)

Meets (under advisement) WWU upper division electives and College of the Environment experiential requirement, as well as general university requirements.

Travel: Querétaro (Querétaro state), altiplano at an elevation of 1,860 meters above sea level, 210 km northwest of Mexico City.

Based in Querétaro, the program studies culture and sustainability challenges. Also: policy, programs, and effects on business and the environment, Mexican politico-economic history, land reform, community-led solutions and planning.

Students can use spring-quarter financial aid and, also, scholarships are available.

Contact Gigi Berardi with questions.