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2015 Carolina Southeast Asia Program

Photo by Morgan Pitelka

The 2015 Carolina Southeast Asia Program (SEAS) just wrapped up what looks like an incredible trip through Malaysia, Singapore and Japan. This shot of the Kamo River from their last stop in Kyoto, Japan, is one of many great images gracing their Flickr stream.

SEAS is a unique faculty-led program at UNC that introduces rising sophomores with limited international experience to Southeast Asia, starting with six weeks of study at the National University of Singapore, a key UNC partner institution. This year’s courses took a comparative look at urbanization in the region.

Class of 2019, if you’re interested, there is always Summer 2016!

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Pre-Trip Study

I’ve been reading up on Ecuador before our World View trip. I started with On the Origin of Species, though I’ll admit I’m still wading through carrier pigeons and haven’t yet arrived at the Galapagos. For more contemporary looks at Ecuador and the Islands, I’ve dipped into The Ecuador Reader, published by our friendly rivals up the road, and Galapagos at the Crossroads by Carol Ann Basset.

I’ve been delighted to find so many UNC authors to reference. Science and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands, edited by UNC’s Steve Walsh and USFQ’s Carlos Mena, provides an accessible, interdisciplinary look at the Islands. I've also come across some truly excellent undergraduate work. Students in the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication have an amazing multimedia site, Living Galapagos, that explores a wide variety of social, environmental and economic issues.

Here’s just one great story on Living Galapagos from 2013, featuring farmers Homero and Efigenia Altamirano and their thoughts on agriculture, marriage and life. It’s no wonder why Living Galapagos won a People’s Voice Webby award in 2014.

Shannon Harvey, Global Relations

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Hello! + World View Ecuador Study Visit

We’re thrilled to be kicking off the UNC Global Tumblr with World View! World View equips K-12 and community college educators with global knowledge, best practices and resources to prepare students to live in an interconnected and diverse world.

Over the next few weeks I’ll travel with educators from across North Carolina on a World View study trip to Ecuador. We’ll visit K-12 schools, universities and NGOs in Quito and the Galapagos Islands to learn about the education system, culture, history and environment of Ecuador.

I’m particularly excited to go to Ecuador as UNC-Chapel Hill has deep relationships with university and NGO partners there, including the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. In addition to comparing notes with K-12 educators, we’ll tour the Galapagos Science Center, jointly run by UNC and USFQ, and visit with UNC study abroad groups working on Isla San Cristóbal.  

I’ll be sharing updates and photos over the next few weeks, so stay tuned. In the meantime, here is a photo of the Galapagos Islands’ most famous visitor memorialized in stone, taken on Isla San Cristóbal in June 2014 by Melissa McMurray, international liaison at UNC.

Shannon Harvey, Global Relations