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Temple University, International Programs
Temple University in Jamaica: International Service Learning
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The program focuses on international service learning and pro-poor development. Students take two integrated courses that teach them theories and practices of service learning and community development and involve them in service projects designed in partnership with community-based organizations.
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Cooperative Center for Study Abroad
CCSA Jamaica Summer Program
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The Jamaica Program will be based in the heart of the historic district of Falmouth. Students may earn up to three hours of college credit by combining this study abroad program with directed study activities preceding and/or following the travel portion of the course.
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University of Maryland
Jamaica: Ethnographic Fieldwork: Connections, Celebration and Identity
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This four-week, six-credit course is organized around festival celebrations for Emancipation Day through Independence Day in Kingston, Jamaica. Students will enhave their skills in ethnographic research methods through observation/participant-observation and informal and semi-informal interviewing. Students will also enhance their knowledge regarding: (1) relationships among national identity, history and national celebrations; (2) their own culture(s) by contrast; and (3) themselves as socialized member of their cultural backgrounds. Students also have the opportunity to instead enroll in a four-week, six credit internship. They will be assigned to either an agency or organization in Jamaica working on adolescent sexual and reproductive health issues (early introduction to sex and pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS, etc.), or with the University of Maryland’s Cultural Systems Analysis Group on their collaboration with organizations working on these issues in Jamaica and the larger Caribbean.
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Caribbean Studies
University of Southern Mississippi
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Minimum program eligibility requirements include the completion of at least 28 semester hours with an overall 2.0 GPA for undergraduates, and graduate standing for graduate students. Students also must satisfy any additional prerequisites described under the individual course listings.
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Florida International University
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The Honors College Summer Study Abroad to Jamaica is a six-credit course intended to provide Honors College students with the opportunity to acquire experience in the Caribbean region while completing the fourth year Honors College requirement. In this course students will experience the physical environments of Jamaica and learn how the interactive role of the geologic,or environmental setting of the region, played a significant role in its history, and the blend of European, African, Asian and Taino cultures.
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University of South Florida
Jamaica Rural Primary Health Care Course July 21st - August 11th 2007
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Topics covered include: What is Primary Care; Assessing The Country and its Communities; Levels of Health Care; Components of Primary Health Care; Designing and Implementing Health Education & Information Technology; Food Supply Management and Proper Nutrition Programming; Monitoring Safe Water and Basic Sanitation; Administering Maternal &Child Health & Family Planning Programs; Organizing Immunization Programs against the Major Infectious Diseases; Supervising the Prevention and Control of Locally Endemic Diseases; Managing Resources for the Treatment of Common Diseases and Injuries; Costing and Inventorying Essential Drugs; Organizing for National and Community Development; Community Participation; Comprehensive Health Care: Setting
Priorities for those in Need; and Health Team Training.
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Hofstra University - Tropical Marine Biology
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This is a 3-credit, 13-day course in Tropical Marine Biology that is highly recommended for teachers, undergraduates, and graduate students. Nature lovers and divers can also enroll for no credit as a Continuing Education student (all the fun and no exams).
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Merritt College
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This program is for students interested in Afro-Caribbean history, politics, culture and the effects of globalization on developing nations. Lectures and filed work and coupled with experiential visits to Bob Marley's history, Rastafarian villages, Maroon settlements, preserved slave plantations and numerous museums.
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University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Pre-travel Computer/Internet Course and on-site field study in Jamaica. Primary focus is vector ecology and biology, infectious disease surveillance and disease control, and water and sanitation in a developing country.
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