Program Overview

Highlights

  • Home-stays with Nicaraguan Families
  • Opportunity for participant observation in grassroots development projects among some of the most socio-economically marginalized communities in the western hemisphere.
  • Daily presentations by Nicaraguan community leaders and academics
  • Excursions to pacific coast, organic coffee farm, volcanic cloud forest, and mountain eco-lodge
  • Integration with Nicaraguan university students

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Learn about development from the bottom up

The University of Florida offers a six week course in grassroots development and Nicaraguan culture. Beginning in the capital city of Managua the traveling course moves to rural communities and urban communities in various locations throughout the country. The program runs for the UF Summer A Semester May 12 – June 20, 2008

The UF in Nicaragua program was established to provide students with an opportunity to study the dynamics of transnational non-governmental assisted community development efforts in socio-economically marginalized communities, as well as various aspects of Nicaraguan history and culture.

The experience includes exposure to three different non-governmental organizations’ practices of grassroots development in a variety of communities on the Western side of the country. North American students will be joined by Nicaraguan students who will travel and live with them, providing a more complete immersion experience. This program will appeal particularly to students of anthropology, sociology, geography, political science, history, non-profit management, and social entrepreneurship.

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