Schedule of Studies/Classes:
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Summer A 2001
IDS 3301 Issues in Culture and Society

Sustainable Cultures
Indigenous education
Sustainable Food Production
The evolution of Island food production
Sustainable populations
Migrations

IDS 3302 Issues in Politics and Economics

Sustainable Plural Societies
Politics and Indigenous people
Sustainable Economies
Ecotourism

IDS 3303 Issues in Science and Technology

Understanding of Scientific Skepticism
Science, Non-Science, and Non-sense

EVR 4930 - Spec Topics - Environments of the South Pacific.

May 14-18 Classes on campus.

Classes at FGCU will be used to establish background and assignments focusing on history, and sustainability through cultural diversity, politics, economics, and migrations.
--Indigenous people
--Explorers
--Missions
--Colonialization
--The Flow of Democracy
--Educational Imperialism
--Understanding modes of food production
--Capitalizing on Extinctions
--Carrying Capacity and migrations

Travel Itinerary:

May 19-20 Travel to Christ Church, New Zealand.

May 21-25 Penguin Politics on South Island of New Zealand. View penguins!

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Christchurch:
--The English Influence Akaroa
--The French Influence
--Ecotourism: Akaroa Harbor Cruises
                         Hector's Dolphin

Dunedin, University of Otago:

Ecotourism: Back to Nature Guided Tours
--Yellow penguin colony
--Albatross colony
Education: Maori Studies program

Omaru:
--Blue Penguins
--GeoTours: Rocks and geography (Elephant Rock and Moeraki Boulders)
--Cave paintings
--Hunting moas
--Extinctions
--New Zealand's Sacrifice for her Queen
               The Great War
--Migration
         Coastalization
         Urbanization

May 26 Travel to the North Island via ferry

May 27-June 1 Island Transformation

Maori:
Education and culture
Sheep - 20 sheep for every human
Volcanoes and the development of New Zealand
Ecomonic development and deforestation "Where have all the kauris gone?"
Politics

Wellington:
--Victoria University at Wellington: Department of Maori Studies (Te Tira Whakaemi Korero)

Rotorua:
--Selling Culture

Driving into Auckland:
--Various parks (Waharau) and early settlers home in Clevedon

Auckland:
--Geotours -
     Volcanography and Human relationships (One Tree Hill)
     Deforestation
     Clash of cultures
--Museums and living cultures
--Heritage Walk
--Tahuna Torea: Preserved oyster spit/Waiatarua Reserve: Restored wetland
--Water and hydrology
--Kayaking

June 2 Travel to Fiji

June 3-8 Fiji

--Missions and the Islands
--Independence or Continuity
--Migrations
--Carrying capacity
--Indigenous education
--Food production/collecting
--Kayaking

June 9 Leave for LA.

Travel to FGCU

June 11-21 Presentations and Wrap up at FGCU. Presentation through Website and in Class.