
Namibia FSP
Program Breakdown

Program Breakdown
Our program in southern Africa helps our students understand the global aspects of environmental problems. Each fall term, 16 Dartmouth undergraduates gain hands-on experience with issues of population, land and water use, ecotourism, and resource management in a developing country.

Weeks 1-3
Policy and Governance
ENVS 42: Human-environmental interactions, governance, and strategies for environmental conservation in Namibia.

Conservation and Community-Based Natural Resource Management
ENVS 40: Studying conservation and development in Namibia through the application of two complementary lenses: personal experience and the academic literature

Group Research Project
ENVS 84: Culminating experience: Three week social-ecological research project at a the Goababeb Research Institute