Each semester is a series of month-long block courses, allowing students to travel and live with local people in places that tourists and university based study abroad programs rarely go. The most comprehensive study abroad program in Thailand, ISDSI has courses in every region of the country. Courses run in both the fall and spring semester of each academic year.

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.

What you learn

During a semester with ISDSI, students are challenged intellectually, emotionally and often physically. Our Expedition Field Courses are rewarding and unique. The intensive study of the Thai language is coupled with training in expedition skills, field study techniques, and leadership. More than academic studies alone, students on ISDSI courses are fully immersed and engaged.

ISDSI programs are open to any student enrolled in a US college or university in good academic standing.

To learn more about ISDSI courses please explore our website:

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• About ISDSI

For an application, email apply@isdsi.org!