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Mexico
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Human
Interactions with the Environment
First offering
Maymester 2007!!
Open to Grad and Undergrads!
Through a series of
lectures and field trips, students will investigate the impacts on
the environment from the growing of decorative flowers for Mexican,
U.S. and European markets.
Topics will include such
areas as surface and groundwater sampling for pesticide residue,
stream ecology studies, environmental toxicology, eco-tourism,
philosophy, culture, and socio-economic factors of rural life.
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| Ghana
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The Ghana Field School (GEOG 4040) studies how economy impacts
health status in Ghana. Structured around on-site visits, readings and
in-field instruction, this course focuses on the geography of health
services and economic development in Ghana seeking to understand how
underdevelopment impacts health services and health care. Challenges
of resource exploitation and environmental pollution, the informal
economic sector and economic development policies including structural
adjustment are examined through visits to rural and urban markets, a
gold mine, tourist facilities, industrial facilities. Visits to
indigenous healers, rural clinics, a University Teaching Hospital and
a Private Clinic helps to unravel the link between economy, culture,
sanitation and health services. In dealing with economy and health
care, our goal is to understand WHO gets WHAT, WHERE and WHY? |
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British
Isles
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This 6 credit-hour course gives students direct experience in applying
geographical field techniques in a foreign setting - the British Isles
and Ireland. The field school will be centered on five base sites -
Plymouth (England), Cork (Ireland), Galway (Ireland), Aberystwyth
(Wales) and Edinburgh (Scotland).
At each site, students will conduct
one-day human and physical geography exercises, designed to provide
training in various field techniques. Duration of field work will be
approximately three weeks and includes "free days" at each location.
There will be one week of pre-trip and post-trip classes at UNT (or
via the course web
page and email).
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Archaeology
This 6 credit-hour course gives students
Comprehensive training in site survey, mapping, excavation techniques,
laboratory processing, restoration and analysis of archaeological
materials through direct participation in an archaeological field project.
The 2005 Field School excavated at two
local sites (UNT's water research station and the Dahlin site in Decatur).
We also took field trips to the Texas Archaeological Research Lab in
Austin, the Lubbock lake site in TX, The Clovis type site in NM, and went camping in Palo Duro Canyon.
2005 Field Season - View pictures and
details about the 2005 Field School season.
Contact Dr. Reid Ferring at (940) 565-2993
or via e-mail at ferring@unt.edu
for more information. The Archaeology Field School is taught during
Summer I session in odd numbered years.
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