Pitzer College runs a Study Abroad Semester Program (Fall and Spring semesters) focusing on restoration ecology. Students spend approximately one month in  a home-stay environment whilst studying Spanish at a language institute in Alajuela, at the foot of Poas Volcano. They then move to rural home-stays whilst studying tropical ecology and human ecology at the Firestone Center, finishing with an independent study project.  The program also includes a short study visit to Panama.

        Neotropical Ecology Syllabus

        Human Ecology syllabus

        Program details and applications.

Last Updated: Thursday November 30 2006