International Environment and Development

The International Environment and Development (IED) semester combines the seminar in Washington, D.C. with an intensive 3-week field practicum in Galapagos Islands or Ghana. The seminar and overseas practicum, conducted in parallel with a two-day-per week internship component and a research project, provide a comprehensive experiential learning program in which students enter directly into the fields of international development and international environmental policy.

In the IED semester, students learn about global actors, institutions, and dynamics; national and community-level issues, challenges, and peoples; and the linkages between the global and local levels. Students are responsible for the additional costs of the travel component: Galapagos Islands and Ecuador (Fall Semester; Ghana (Spring Semester).

You can see a list of possible internships that are regularly offered through the IED program.