EU/ENVS 4800A/5182 3.00: Advanced Topics in Environment and Health: Ecosystem Approaches in the Field

Instructor: Martin Bunch

Location: Costa Rica

Language of Instruction: English

Program Dates(s): February 13th - February 21st, 2027

Course Overview:

This course is an introduction to the ecosystem approach to health and well-being (ecohealth); an applied approach based on principles of systems thinking, transdisciplinarity, participation, gender and social equity, knowledge-to-action, and sustainability. The course will be a 10-day intensive course at 91��ɫ’s Eco Campus in Costa Rica. In order to provide participants with a more concrete experience of ecosystem approaches to health, the course has been designed around the themes of EcoHealth and Watersheds and EcoHealth and Food. Both of these will focus on the case study of “linking health, environment and community” in the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor.

The program includes:

Las Nubes EcoCampus
Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor
San Isidro
Dominical

Good academic standing
A minimum of 60 credits completed by either the end of the Fall term for the February Reading Week course or by the end of Winter for the Summer courses (only applies to undergraduate students). Students with fewer credits than the minimum requirement may be accepted into the program upon the course director’s approval.
A cumulative GPA of 4.00 for Bachelor’s degree students and a cumulative GPA of 5.00 for Honours degree students.

More information can be found here.

Admission to the Las Nubes courses are based on your eligibility. Based on an evaluation of your academic records, number of completed credits by the travel time, and questionnaire answers a recommendation for admission into the Study Abroad program will be determined by the Office of Student Academic Services.

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EU/ENVS 4800A/5182 3.00: Advanced Topics in Environment and Health: Ecosystem Approaches in the Field