Santiago De Los Caballeros, Dominican Republic

Global Challenge of Health and the Future of Water: Honors Travel Course offering 3 credits, January 1-25, 2014

Macaulay Honors College, in partnership with CIEE, is planning a two-part travel program on this topic. The first trip, offering 3 academic credits, is in the Dominican Republic. While not a requirement, the second trip will take place in Botswana for 6 weeks in June-July, 2015.

Cost for the DR January course: $2237, not including airfare (est $800). Participation in Macaulay travel programs will be underwritten through the Opportunities Fund. Because the program is pre-approved by Macaulay, only a short application form is required. All Opportunities Fund eligibility requirements must be met.

Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic

Santiago de los Caballeros, the second largest city in the Dominican Republic, is surrounded by mountains in the lush valley of the Cibao region. Places of historical, cultural, and ecological interest are nearby, and it is just a little over an hour drive to the Atlantic Coast. Known as La Ciudad Corazón (City of the Heart), Santiago is the commercial and cultural center of the fertile Cibao Valley region, housing over 100 industrial free trade zone factories, the León Jimenez Cultural Center and cigar factory, and the commercial street of Calle del Sol. Although it is a growing city with a population exceeding 800,000, Santiago retains many features of a small town.

Program overview

This course offers an introduction to public health practice and its particular manifestations in the Dominican Republic, and more generally, the Caribbean and Latin America. The course gives an introduction to basic public health concerns—communicable disease, health-care provision and access, and the social determinants of health—in the context of underdevelopment. This course will highlight those elements of prevention efforts that focus on ensuring safe drinking water, food safety, and basic environmental sanitation. Topics covered in class will give students a broad appreciation of the different health challenges facing the Dominican population as well as the root causes (social and biological) of those challenges. This course has a special focus on water issues within the Dominican Republic specifically and the Caribbean and Latin America more generally.  Course: One, three-credit, 45 hour course taught by renowned Public Health expert Dr. David Simmons “Public Health and the Future of Water in the Dominican Republic”

 21 days, 20 nights in the Dominican Republic

 January 1, 2014 depart for Santiago

 January 25, 2014 depart from Santiago

What is included?

 Local Director and On-Site staff

 Course Instruction by On-Site Faculty

 Double Hotel Accommodations (breakfast included)

 Lunch and Dinner Daily

 On-Site Program, Safety and Cultural Orientation

 24-hour Emergency support

 iNext International Travel Insurance including Political and Natural Disaster Evacuation

 Course Tuition (3 semester credits)

 Overnight Excursions

 Cultural Activities

 Entrance fees

 Ground Transportation

 Guided Tours

 Welcome and Farewell Group Dinners

What is not included?

 Travel documents

 Inoculations Instructor: David Simmons, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Department of Health Promotion Education and Behavior, University of South Carolina.

TO RECEIVE AN APPLICATION FORM CONTACT: [email protected]

NOTE: CUNY TRIP ENDORSEMENT IS PENDING