Introduction to Service Learning:

Communities, Conservation, and Development in Costa Rica

2013 Course Syllabus        Info Session       

Nick & Tom Powerpoint - 2011       

Diana, Leslie, & Rory Powerpoint - 2011

Movie Clip 1            Movie Clip 2

 

 

1) Cress, C.M. et al. (2005) Learning Through Serving: A Student Guidebook for Service-Learning Across the Disciplines. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.

 

Chapter 1

 

2) Slimbach. Richard. (2010). Becoming World Wise: A Guide to Global Learning. Sterling, VA:  Stylus Publishing.

 

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 3

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

 

3) Kuentzel, W. F. (2010). Hybridization and tourism development along the Rincon River.

 

4) Flora, C. B., & Flora, J. L. (2008). Rural Communities: Legacy & Change (3rd Edition). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.


            Chapter 1

            Chapter 2 Natural Capital
            Chapter 3 Cultural Capital
            Chapter 4 Human Capital
            Chapter 5 Social Capital
            Chapter 6 Political Capital

5) Chambers, R. (1994) The origins and practice of participatory rural appraisal.

6) Kestenbaum, D. (2002). Planning for the Rapid Development of Community Based Ecotourism Using Action Research: A Project Implemented in Rio Negro, Comayagua, Honduras

        Skim Chapter 1
        Read the others.


           

OSA Slide Show

The Iceberg Concept of Culture

Chimamanda Adichie

 

What to Bring

Getting a Taxi from the Airport to the Hotel (Parque del Lago)

 

Where we will be Staying:

Parque del Lago (March 2 and March 10)

Danta Corcovado Lodge (March 3 to March 9)

 

Costa Rican Census (INEC)

Municipality of Puntarenas

Municipality of Golfito

Municipality of Osa

Ministry of Science and Technology

Ministry of the Environment (MINET)

Ministry of Agriculture and Cattle (MAG)

 

Corcovado Foundation

Fundacion Neotropica