Poland | India | Dominican

EXPEDITION INDIA

AUGUST, 2009

Estimated Cost: $1486 (depending on airfare)
Fee includes airfare, program fee, accommodations, food, and ground transportation.
Not Included: Passport, visa, insurance, immunizations and personal incidentals

Interested in exploring southern India? Or working with indigenous Irula people? You can do this and more when you take this amazing trip to India with Professor Steve Myers. Some of your activities will include lassoing crocodiles at the Croc Bank, subduing them for vital measurements, and relocating them. You will observe the indigenous Irula people using their incredible skills to track down and collect venomous snakes in rice paddy fields. You will share the Irulas' diet of rats and termites (hmm, delicious!). Later, you will travel through southern India by train and bus to the remote Western Ghats where famed conservation biologist Rom Whitaker operates his Agumbe Rainforest preserve for King Cobras. By the end of the trip, you will be wearing the traditional lungi, if you are a male, and the female students will be sporting elaborate Mehendi henna tattoos on both hands. You will remember this incredible class forever.

Guidelines for Student Selection: (only 7 students will be selected)

1. Applications will be available online from April 1-24.
2. Email the completed application as an attachment to studyabroad@valenciacc.edu by 5:00 p.m April 24. If you cannot email it, submit to Kathy Adams in the Study Abroad office on the East Campus, building 5-220.
3. Applications will be reviewed by a committee made up of Valencia faculty & deans.
4. The committee will rate applicants' responses to the application questions and rank the applicants by April 29.
5. The ratings will be totaled and a list will be submitted to Professor Steve Myers for student notification.
6. All students will be notified of their ranking by April 30.
7. A non-refundable deposit is due May 22, 2009.
8. The final payment is due June 19, 2009.
9. You will need a passport and visa. (DO Not apply for visa yet)
   

• In the Fall, you will be responsible for sharing your India experience with other Valencia students in one or two of the ways below:
  • Give a Powerpoint presentation for biology students.
  • Put your experience in words and pictures on SAGE website.
  • Participate in International Education Week activities(November 09).