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We offer courses in the areas of environmental sciences and sustainability. Some of these courses have mandatory field excursions and/or lab components.
Intensive short term (typically around 3-week program depending on the course) program with a high component of field research and activities. Students will be in the field working with the environment and different communities.
Our staff can work with visiting professors to create a customized Faculty-Led program in Costa Rica. Our staff is prepared to create a tailor-made program for your group and your area of study. Some of the services include: generating itinerary, budgeting, housing, airport pick-up, field trips, faculty, classrooms, guest lecturers, excursions, and others.
We offer different opportunities for internships in different areas. These are all credit awarding internships, working on different projects and/or with different entities around the country. For those seeking something less time consuming than an internship, we also offer service-learning opportunities working in some of our specific projects.
We offer courses in the areas of environmental sciences and sustainability. Some of these courses have mandatory field excursions and/or lab components.
This course is an introduction to genetics, focused on its applications for current issues related to the diagnosis of human diseases, paternity, taxonomy, ecology, conservation, agronomy and the environment.
This course provides an introduction to the major environmental problems and issues confronting modern society.
In this course, students will learn about the interactions between earth and land, and how these processes affect our lives and the stability of our planet.
This course provides an introduction to the main topics of ornithology, with an emphasis on neotropical avifauna.
This course is an introduction to the zoology of terrestrial vertebrates in Costa Rica. Students will gain knowledge of various biological characteristics of the groups of land chordates in the country.
This combined lecture and field course will provide students with a general overview of tropical plants. Students will gain knowledge of basic botanical concepts and will explore a variety of ecosystems.
This course studies the balance between ecosystems and the human stress and demands that are placed on the constantly changing marine environment.
This course is an introduction to the biology of marine mammals of Costa Rica, including whales, dolphins, manatees fur seals and sea lions.
Climate change is dramatically affecting the future of our planet. In this course, students will learn about global climate changes and how these are impacting plant and animal populations, people, and ways of life.
This course examines agricultural and food systems from an ecological systems perspective.
This course is an introduction to current world problems related to natural resource management and conservation, and their effects on sustainable development efforts in tropical countries.
This course emphasizes the vast possibilities offered by biotechnology for sustainable development through the study of specific cases in Costa Rica.
Pending course short description
This course aims to highlight the importance of conservation biology in managing endangered marine species, emphasizing recent conservation efforts for umbrella species such as sea turtles and sharks in the Pacific waters bordering Costa Rica.
The use of molecular biological approaches has revolutionized marine science research over the last decades.
This entomology course explores the use of insects as food sources for human and animal feeding.
Due to its geographic positioning Costa Rica has a high diversity in mammals, the former as a result of the role played by this country as a biological bridge.
Our staff can work with visiting professors to create a customized Faculty-Led program in Costa Rica. Our staff is prepared to create a tailor-made program for your group and your area of study. Some of the services include: generating itinerary, budgeting, housing, airport pick-up, field trips, faculty, classrooms, guest lecturers, excursions, and others.
These are completely customizable courses. We have a team that designated for creating itineraries as well as budgeting scenarios.
Intensive short term (typically around 3-week program depending on the course) program with a high component of field research and activities. Students will be in the field working with the environment and different communities.
This course is aimed to highlight the importance of Conservation Marine Biology in managing Costa Rican Elasmobranch species (sharks and rays) with the emphasis on recent conservation efforts in the Easter Tropical Pacific (ETP).
Pending course description
The oceans were formed between 4400 and 3500 million years ago, and they occupy about 71% of the Earth’s surface. Tropical seas hold the highest ecosystem and species diversity of the oceans.
This course aims to expose students with the high biodiversity of mammals found in Costa Rica and more specifically with terrestrial mammals.
We offer different opportunities for internships in different areas. These are all credit awarding internships, working on different projects and/or with different entities around the country. For those seeking something less time consuming than an internship, we also offer service-learning opportunities working in some of our specific projects.
You will collaborate with the Entomology Lab and apiary in order to promote research for both invertebrate pests of the region with a focus on sustainable solutions.
As an intern you will collaborate in field activities to collect tissue samples of the studied species from different coastline locations, which may include fishing villages and ports.
The Green House is an environmental model home and small permaculture farm with a developing food forest. Any student with interest in environmental studies, business, or the arts are welcome.
We work with a non-profit organization with one overarching objective - to have a positive impact on conservation. We rescue and rehabilitate wildlife with the goal of release.
Non just buildings or gardens make a sustainable project, but also the invisible web behind them: organization, education, finance, communications. Nature has many pattern from which to learn from.