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Thursday, January 30, 2025 - 10:30am to 1:30pm
Spring 2025
Informational Session: Natural History of Madagascar
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
333 Science 2
Learn more about the Natural History of Madagascar travel course offered in spring 2025!
Course Credit: 3 credits NREM 4960A during the Spring 2025 semester
Course Instructors: Dr. Steve Dinsmore (cootjr@iastate.edu), Dr. Julie Blanchong (julieb@iastate.edu), and Dr. Peter Wolter (ptwolter@iastate.edu).
Informational Session: Agricultural Development for Economic Growth: Multi-Sector Approach in Kosovo
Monday, October 14, 2024 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Location:
1204 Kildee Hall (Ensminger Room)
Learn more about the Agricultural Development for Economic Growth: Multi-Sector Approach in Kosovo travel course offered in spring 2025!
Course Credit: 3 credits of AN S 4960/ECON 4960/GLOBE 4960 during spring semester
Course Instructors: Dr. Curt Youngs (cryoungs@iastate.edu) and Albulena Basha (abasha@iastate.edu)
Informational Session: Agricultural Development for Economic Growth: Multi-Sector Approach in Kosovo
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location:
468D Heady Hall
Learn more about the Agricultural Development for Economic Growth: Multi-Sector Approach in Kosovo travel course offered in spring 2025!
Course Credit: 3 credits of AN S 4960/ECON 4960/GLOBE 4960 during spring semester
Course Instructors: Dr. Curt Youngs (cryoungs@iastate.edu) and Albulena Basha (abasha@iastate.edu)
Informational Session: Agricultural Development for Economic Growth: Multi-Sector Approach in Kosovo
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location:
104 Kildee Hall
Learn more about the Agricultural Development for Economic Growth: Multi-Sector Approach in Kosovo travel course offered in spring 2025!
Course Credit: 3 credits of AN S 4960/ECON 4960/GLOBE 4960 during spring semester
Course Instructors: Dr. Curt Youngs (cryoungs@iastate.edu) and Albulena Basha (abasha@iastate.edu)
Greece and Italy: Food, Culture and Agriculture - May 2025
This course provides students with a guided exploration of food, culture and agriculture in two Mediterranean countries (Italy and Greece). It exposes students to food systems from production to distribution, to marketing.
In Thessaloniki (Greece's second largest city), they will visit farms (olives, rice, grapes, herbs, greenhouses, etc.), a winery, and the American Farm School and Perrotis College.聽They will travel by bus through the agricultural heartland of Greece, stopping to visit a medieval monastery.聽聽In Athens, they will visit the Acropolis and Parthenon.
Agricultural Development for Economic Growth: Multi-Sector Approach in Kosovo - May 2025
Program dates and itinerary are tentative and subject to change.
Informational Session: Comparing Food Systems - Iowa vs. California
Thursday, October 3, 2024 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location:
2379 Food Science
Learn more about the Comparing Food Systems - Iowa vs. California travel course that will be offered in spring 2025!
Course Credit: FSHN 4960B (4 credits)
Course Instructor: Kate Gilbert (kgilbert@iastate.edu)
Comparing Food Systems - Iowa vs California - May 2025
Program itinerary is tentative and subject to change.
This course will review food systems frameworks and considerations, focusing on food supply chains (production systems, distribution, processing, and retail/markets). Discussion topics will include influences such as natural resources (water),聽innovation and technology, demographics (labor), and聽economics (price of food).聽
The pre-departure course will include tours of Iowa food production to assist in comparing and contrasting regional food systems in Iowa and California.
Tropical Agriculture and Culture in Ghana - Winter Break 2025-2026
Program dates are tentative and subject to change!
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