Namibia FSP

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

ENVS 42

Policy and Governance

ENVS 42: Human-environmental interactions, governance, and strategies for environmental conservation in Namibia.


Weeks 4-6

ENVS 40

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


Weeks 7-10

ENVS 84 – Goababeb

Group Research Project

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