Scotland
Spring Trimester, nine days including travel, options provided depending on your level of physical ability and interest.
$2050 (fluctuates with the exchange rate)
Field studies at SES place students in locations where they can experience environments and/or people that provide natural extensions to studies at the school. Scotland is an outstanding place to experience both. The rock that makes up much of the interesting landforms of Scotland is related to the rock that makes up the Appalachian Mountains. The plant life is similar to the flora of Minnesota but exists at a latitude similar to Hudson Bay!
The people have emerged from a rich history that mixes Viking conquest from Scandinavia with Catholic missions from Ireland with English protestantism from Brittain with a fierce internal independence popular in many hit movies of recent years. In parts of Scotland highway and road signs will be in English AND Gaelic.
Scotland gives the student the opportunity to study in an exotic place when the language barrier is not very great, yet the setting is far from the Minnesota farms, plains and forests of our home.
Four primary questions have emerged to drive our study of Scotland and its people:
What
forces brought humans to Scotland?
How
did humans change as a consequence of their relationship with the natural
environment?
How
did the natural environment change as a consequence of its relationship
with humans?
What
properties of Scotland have emerged as consequence of these relationships?
Forms and Lists for downloading and printing
Authorization for International travel
Packing Lists: walkers | hikers | bikers
Several studies have been offered in Scotland over the years.