GC Belize: Exploring Health Perspectives

GC Belize: Exploring Health Perspectives (Summer 2022)

Belize BannerThis program is slated to run again in summer 2022. It usually runs for about 2 weeks in May.

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Over the course of the past six years, the COHS study abroad program to Belize has served more than five thousand Belizean residents.  The program, which has established reciprocal relationships with a variety of Belizean partners, allows for COHS majors to procedurally apply learned declarative content knowledge in authentic environments, providing essential healthcare to at-risk, low SES populations. In particular, students are afforded the opportunity to:
  • Provide free health screenings for impoverished communities through conducting glucose, cholesterol, blood pressure, heart rate, body composition, vision, and height & weight testing
  • Provide Physical and Occupational Therapy rehabilitation to patients at an elderly care facility
  • Teach CPR and first-aid prevention and care to aspiring healthcare professionals of Belize
  • Implement sport-specific training programs to college coaches during a coaching clinic; conduct hand sanitation, dental hygiene, teenage pregnancy, and STD prevention workshops for school populations
  • Participate in the ongoing construction of an orphanage for at-risk teenage girls
  • Participate in a very unique service-learning program abroad, designed specifically for GC students in the COHS   

Some of the Excursions and Highlights:Ziplining in the jungle!
Explore the Actun Tunichil Muknal caves, the ancient Mayan sites of Cahal Pech and Xunantunich, and all San Ignacio has to offer. Enjoy the opportunity to embrace local culture through intensive service-learning projects in the community alongside the people that it will benefit. 

In addition to conducting health fairs, students will spend a few days at a local orphanage called Barzakh Falah. The vision of a San Ignacio husband-wife team, Barzakh Falah will one day be a 100% sustainable orphanage for young teens with a working farm. From the houses made of earth blocks to the cellar made with used chicken feed bags, to the road made of old tires, this facility is being built from recycled goods.

Other excursions may include exploring other Mayan sites, hiking, canoeing or kayaking, and zip-lining through the jungle!

Courses - Students take one, 3-credit course from the list below:

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  • KINS 4803: Exploring Health Perspectives
  • KINS 6833: Exploring Health Perspectives (Graduate students only)
  • NRSG 3990: Exploring Health Perspectives
  • HSCS 3995: Global Health Field Experience (3 credits, satisfies the Global Health minor field requirement and is open to any major!)
Program Director:
Dr. Kevin Hunt
478-445-3926
Health Sciences 326
kevin.hunt@gcsu.edu

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