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:

ANNOUNCEMENTS

We are now accepting applications for our Spring, 2010 semester. The application deadline is October 12, 2009. If you are interested, we recommend that you contact us early. For an application, email apply@isdsi.org.

The Fall, 2009 program is full! If you are interested in coming on an ISDSI semester in Thailand, we are accepting applications for Spring, 2010.

ISDSI Blog

May 25th, 2009

Sea sick

Alanna Mitchell’s book, Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis, lays out in clear language the multiple challenges that are facing the oceans, from oxygen depleted dead zones, to the acidification of the oceans, to the crashing of the global fish stocks. Part travel writing, part investigative reporting, Sea Sick follows Mitchell around the world [...]

May 19th, 2009

Back down from the mountain

Our students have just returned from our Forests course studying political ecology and the relationship of the Karen tribal people with the mountain forests that is their home. Long days in the mountains and rai, weaving naturally dyed cloth, eating “mu-sa-to” (delicious Karen chili paste), and learning from our tribal colleagues and teachers. This course [...]

May 7th, 2009

Fun ≠ Learning ?

Fun.
Somehow we seem to think that learning should only be fun if you are in kindergarten, and if it is “fun” it is somehow suspect if you’re in college or university. When we’ve got a new group of students at ISDSI we talk about their expectations for the experiential learning courses. Lots of words and [...]

April 30th, 2009

Walking

This week students at ISDSI are in Mae Hong Son province on our Forests course, learning about the Karen (Bak’en’yaw) and their relationship to the forested mountains that they call home. While some of the villages students will visit and live in have road access, we walk in, using the traditional trails that have, in [...]

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