SIT Madagascar: Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management
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Program Information
Location
Fort Dauphin, Madagascar
Terms
Fall, Spring
Languages
English, French, Malagasy
Minimum Language Requirement
None; however, you must take the host language as one of your courses.
Areas of Focus
Social Sciences, STEM
Structure
Field-Based
Description
Explore environmental challenges, conservation, and development strategies in Madagascar, a biodiversity "hot spot" island isolated from neighboring landmasses for more than one hundred million years. This program offers classroom and field-based instruction in natural and social scientific methods to encourage students to analyze environmental issues in an array of ecosystems — including rainforest, dry spiny thicket, alpine and transitional forest, savannah, gallery and littoral forest, mangrove, and coral reef — and within multiple economic, socio-political, and cultural contexts.
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