Honduras

Summer 2011

KIN291 Living with a Disabilty in the Developing World

Program Dates: May 22–June 10, 2011

How are the challenges of disabilities and congenital disorders addressed in the developing world?

How do people live with these live with these disabilities in societies that have limited government support for such needs?

These are two of the central questions which KIN291 Living with a Disability in the Developing World invites you to explore. Join in this international summer seminar for an immersion experience in a new culture that will compare and contrast the experience of Hondurans and North Americans living with common physical disabilities. On the field lectures and readings will be supported by trips to rehabilitation clinics and hospitals and by guest lectures presented by local clinicians. Students may also have the opportunity to shadow medical doctors on their visits to neighboring villages.

Prerequisite: KIN/BIO 213 Anatomy and Physiology I, or permission of instructor.

Fulfills Global Understanding Core when taken with COR210 and 211 through the GEO. See details below.

LOCATIONS

After on-campus examination of disabilities and rehabilitation in the United States during the Spring Semester, participants will travel to Honduras. There, the international portion of the course will be divided into two main components.

The seminar will Copan, Honduras, a state in western Honduras with mountain towns surrounded by villages.

• Santa Rosa, Copan
• Copan Ruinas, Copan

COURSE FORMAT

Participants will be required to attend lectures, and a visit to a local rehab clinic, and write a reflective essay during the spring semester.

In-Country:

• Visits to clinics
• Interviews with local clinicians
• Visits to local villages
• Reflective Essays
• Daily Journals

After the trip, students will create a media presentation that will be presented during Homecoming Open House at the Center for Balance, Mobility, and Wellness in October 2011.

APPLICATION

Applications will be considered for acceptance in the order received.

• Complete online application (link available to Gordon students only)
• Contact Prof. Ventura about your interest in the seminar
• Submit applications no later than March 15, 2011
• Submit a non-refundable $30 application fee

CORE CREDIT

Students wishing to fulfill Global Understanding core through participation in the Kinesiology Seminar must:

• Participate in COR210/211 New Perspectives in Global Understanding 1 and 2 (0-credit)
• Register for COR210/211 on the online international seminar application

Pre-Departure: COR210 New Perspectives in Global Understanding 1 is a short seminar (either 3 2-hour sessions or 1 day retreat the semester before departure). For students going studying internationally questions regarding the interpretation of cultural difference, ethnocentrism, and culture’s shaping of behaviour and values are not “academic” questions. They will soon be lived reality. This course equips students to reflect purposefully upon the theory and praxis of what it means to be citizen-sojourners.

Re-Entry: COR211 New Perspectives in Global Understanding is a short seminar (either 3 2-hour sessions or 1 day retreat upon return to campus). Nobody knows better than a returning student how inadequate the question “How was your international experience”is. This course equips students to ask the deeper questions of their global experience and reintegration, and take up the challenge of being a citizen-sojourner.

Contact GEO for further details.

COURSE REGISTRATION

Registration for international seminars is handled by the GEO. After accepted students have paid their deposit to the GEO, the GEO will send a list of the seminar participants to the Registrar’s office.

COST

Program costs include: tuition, site fees, meals and lodgings, travel related to program, roundtrip airfare to and from Boston Logan airport, and non-refundable deposit.The total cost will be approximately $3,000.

Final costs will be determined based on the number of student participants, final flight costs, etc. Students will be responsible for any extra travel outside of course assignments.