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SFS offers 30-day summer programs addressing critical environmental issues in Kenya, Australia, Costa Rica, Baja California Sur in Mexico, and the Turks & Caicos Islands in the British West Indies. By combining lectures with field exercises and field trips, you will gain hands-on experience and learn field research skills that will help you build your professional credentials. You will also have the rare opportunity to experience a new culture while helping the local community develop solutions to critical environmental problems.
Like SFS semester programs, summer courses are high-quality interdisciplinary academic programs offered for college credit and accredited by Boston University. Our classrooms include coral reefs, rainforests, and African savannas; our research ranges from sea turtle conservation to rainforest restoration.
Students in summer programs conduct research designed to help local communities in natural resource management decision-making. The work conducted by SFS faculty and students has the potential of making a positive difference in the lives of people in the areas within which we work. In return, students can explore potential academic and career choices while developing problem assessment and data gathering skills.
Each course carries four semester college-level credits in Environmental Studies. In some cases, the summer course may fulfill a university's field study requirement. There are no course pre-requisites for summer courses, and programs are open to students from academic backgrounds ranging from environmental studies and biology to arts and languages. The majority of summer participants are college undergraduates, but motivated high school seniors and recent college graduates may also participate. Our summer sessions I and II have rolling admissions, but programs do fill up, so early submissions are encouraged for acceptance into program of your choice.
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