The group assists cargivers at Saint
Vincent's Centerfor Handicapped
Children. Students are engaged in
playing games, teaching, and helping
with personal hygiene with kids that
are blind, deaf, dismembered or mentally handicapped.
Other projects includes construction at the Universite
Episcopal D'Haiti. Depending on the year,
this break trip is offered over Christmas or
Spring breaks, or the two following
service-learning courses are offered. For the
academic year 2006-2007, these two
courses will be offered (see Service/Learning Courses)
along with an Outreach Trip lead by a local dentist.
trip.
Art 263: Documentary Projects in Photography: This course
introduces students to documentary methods and issues
pertaining to photography and related media used in the
making of photo-documentaries. Class projects and
discussions examine the cultural and socio-political impact
of this genre, as well as the genre's core triangulation points
of subjectivity, objectivity, and truth. This spring, Documentary
Projects in Photography will be traveling to Haiti as their
principle site of documentation. the trip promises to be both
academically and personally rewarding. Malde
Biology 232: Human Health and the Environment. This
course incorporates concepts of environmental and health
science with emerging issues associated with environmental
threats to human health. Topics include human population
growth and food security, toxicity and toxins, food borne
illness, emerging disease, waste and wastewater, air
pollution and assessing human risk. Field trips provide
applied learning experiences in the science underlying
environmental stress and disease. To explore the interaction
of poverty, environmental degradation and disease firsthand,
students take a one-week outreach trip over spring break to
Haiti and participate in projects addressing local environmental
problems. Mcgrath
