Honors Program in Ecuador: International Studies in Writing and Sustainable Practice

Faculty:  Chuck Henry, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Bothell) and Elena Olsen, English

Summer A Term: June 22 – July 23, 2012

Cost: $4,100 (this includes tuition)

Credits: 15 credits (3-credit Spring prep seminar; 12-credit program in Ecuador)
Variation of credits may be available per preapproval with your department

All UW students are welcome to apply, priority given to College/Interdisciplinary and Departmental Honors students.*

*If you are not part of the Departmental Honors Program yet but are eligible, please see Joe or Stanley for details.

After completing the 3-credit Spring Seminar, students will live and work in three distinct regions in Ecuador:  in Cuenca in the high Andes; in the Galapagos Islands, and in Ecuador’s largest city, the southern port of Guayaquil (with short stays in Quito and Cuenca).  This program is designed to give the student international experience using the concepts of sustainable practices and permaculture while also traveling, living, and working in Ecuador through the writer’s pen.  Students will spend one-third of the program in homestays with families in Cuenca. In addition to hands-on projects in sustainable practice, Intensive daily reading and writing in the fields of creative nonfiction environmental writing; Latin American travel writing, and academic texts on rural development in Ecuador and other Latin American countries.  Students will extend their experiences in sustainable practices, learn about the cultural and socioeconomic history of rural Ecuador, and study and practice writing of place via creative nonfiction and other modes of daily writing. Final product will be a portfolio and presentations.

For more information go to:  http://depts.washington.edu/uwhonors/international/ecuador/ or contact Elena Olsen at elenao@u.washington.edu.