Study Abroad in Thailand!

Academically challenging and intensely experiential, ISDSI courses are expeditions into the cultures and ecology of Thailand. Each course is focused on understanding sustainable development and is designed in collaboration with local communities.

Integrating both the social and natural sciences, on our courses students may work on an organic farm alongside villagers while learning about agroecosystems, backpack on remote forest trails in the mountains with ethnic people in order to study indigenous forest management, sea kayak to learn about oceans, reefs and fishing communities, or paddle a river with village elders while studying ethnoecology.

Spring semester at ISDSI (See a video about the fall semester on our video page.)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

New Spring Semester, 2011 Application Deadline- October 15, 2010.

To apply please email apply@isdsi.org for an application. See our Apply page for more information.

What’s happening at ISDSI now? Go to www.isdsi.org/calendar/details/ to see our current activities, what our students are doing, etc.

ISDSI Blog

August 26th, 2010

Chinlone

Today at ISDSI we were privileged to have a showing of the film “Mystic Ball” and a question and answer session with the filmmaker, Greg Hamilton.
From the film’s website:
Passion suffuses every moment of Mystic Ball, an uplifting documentary about one man’s physical and spiritual quest. The film resists easy categorization – it’s simultaneously a thrilling [...]

August 25th, 2010

CFCNX!

New things are happening at ISDSI.

Check it out here.

August 23rd, 2010

Thai class

Our approach to language learning for study abroad at ISDSI is based on functional competency — we want the students to be active learners and able to use Thai to function in everyday interactions as well as while learning in the villages where our Expedition Field Courses take place.
And it is active!
Here are a few [...]

August 21st, 2010

Orientation…

For each semester, the students arrive throughout the day on Friday. To make it easier on our Thai host families, we have the families pick the students up the next day on Saturday.

We spend about an hour with the students talking about dress, behavior in the host family, and answering questions. We stress the idea [...]

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