A contingent from Florida Gulf Coast University will be visiting St. Lucia on an inter-disciplinary field trip.
Two members of faculty and ten students, from the University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts and the Department of Marine and Ecological Sciences, will be in St. Lucia from May 22 to June 4, 2010.
While in the country, students will study traditional craft practices and tropical island ecology – which Fay describes as the human-land relationship.
FGCU students will participate in service-learning projects including kiln building and classroom teaching. The group will buy an electric kiln for a secondary school in the island’s north portion, and build a kiln with locally made bricks in the southern portion.
“I want to experience the cultures,” said Andrew Applegate, 22, a senior in environmental studies. “I would like to do conservation work in the future.”
[Photo: Helen Garfield at Flickr]
