Join faculty leader Rebekah Sinclair to learn more about this nine-credit, two-week course in Peru. 

In this experientially focused course, OSU students will engage directly with and learn from Peruvian Indigenous and local communities about how they are hybridizing and adapting traditional moral-ecological knowledge with Western science/environmental values to both frame and address climate change-related problems in their more-than-human communities. This study abroad experience will blend philosophical, ethical, ecological, cultural and biological approaches, and will include direct interviews with experts, site visits, community engagement, interactive media, volunteer work, citizen-science and more. The class focuses on eco-communities in three key Peruvian biomes—the Amazonian rainforest and river, the coastal desert and marine ecosystems, and the Andean alpine tundra and glacial regions. Here, students will learn about and engage local communities working with different conceptual frameworks, agricultural strategies, conservation techniques, biodiversity measures, reforestation practices, seed-saving techniques, worldviews, and climate narratives. Ultimately, OSU students will have the unique opportunity learn about climate change in some of the world’s most biodiverse and most unjustly impacted areas, even as they learn from and support Indigenous and ecological resiliency.