Southwest Field Studies Program Overview


Southwest Field Studies is a 16 credit off-campus semester in Environmental Studies. Combining courses in the natural and social sciences with backcountry wilderness travel, students study desert ecology, outdoor education, geology, and cultural and environmental issues all with an exploratory, hands-on approach. Held each year during the Spring semester, the program travels extensively in the national parks and wilderness areas of the U.S. southwest and northern Mexico. The program also visits museums, squatter camps, research centers, Native American communities and state office buildings. Field observations, readings, lectures, journaling, interviews, and research projects create an immersive, intensive, and engaging intellectual environment. The program has run nearly continuously since 1974.

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Wilderness Programs
801 National Road West, Drawer 87
Richmond, IN 47374
phone:(765) 983-1327; fax: (765) 983-1207
Wilderness@earlham.edu