Sustainable Development and Conservation Through Entrepreneurial Collaboration: Madagascar

3 units

This course focuses on sustainable development in rural subsistence economies, using Madagascar as a case study. Students from diverse disciplines are challenged to develop and assess the feasibility of projects that can have a positive impact on communities constrained by poverty traps. The span of projects includes topics such as forest conservation and use, nutrition, health, food security, clean water, education, and bottom up economic growth. Students in Humanities, Social Sciences, Business, Design, Engineering, Physical Sciences, Law, Social Work, Economics, Political Science, Public Health and others use their different perspectives to search for answers. Teamwork and peer teaching are central to the course. Prerequisite: Application is required and enrollment is limited. Students should apply be adding their name to the waitlist in WEBSTAC. This will notify staff to send an application to interested students who will be notified of acceptance prior to the spring semester. Dropping this course may have an adverse impact your ability to register for other CEL courses in the future.