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Students will spend 13 nights in rural Spanish speaking Costa Rican homes, gain comprehensive backpacking and trekking skills, explore remote villages, and participate in a wide variety of cross cultural, sustainability, and adventurer activities. Students will develop cross-cultural awareness and interpersonal communication skills through daily intentional experiences. All students will be evaluated based on one pre-course research project and lesson plan, daily journaling, one reflection paper, and team participation. This course utilizes three world class locations; the Los Santos Forest Preserve, the Savagre River, Ballena Marine National Park.