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Independent
Study Projects
Topics
chosen by program participants in recent years.
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Fall
2005
- Re-introduction
Help or Hurt? The Role of Species Re-introduction in Wildlife
Conservation
- A
Historical Investigation of the Causes of Deforestation in Sarapiquí,
Costa Rica
- Traditional
Polyculture Coffee Systems as a Means of Conservation
- Analysis
of the New Law of Immigration: Where do You Draw the Line?
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A Universal Reality: Job Conditions that Nicaraguan Domestic Workers
Experience in Costa Rica
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The Shifting National Identity of Costa Rica: Changes and Reactions
of the Young Generation
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The Church and Immigration: How Church Programs and Personal Faith
Help Immigrants in Costa Rica
- Domestic
Violence and Nationality: An Exploration of a Current Perception
- A Comparison
of Extractive/Non-Extractive Uses of Marine Turtles in Costa Rica
- Mujeres,
la Población y el Medioambiente en Latinoamérica: Una Relación
Íntima
- Coming
Up Next ... Disturbances in La Carpio: Media's Portrayal of San
José's Marginalized Community
- International
Organization for Migration (IOM) and Volunteerism
- Hey, have
you heard the one where ...: Dominant Society's Joke-telling and
the Costa Rica-Nicaragua Conflict
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The Chicken or the Egg?
- Rasta
in the Caribbean: the Exotification of the "Rasta" in Cahuita
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Garbage on the Frontier
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The San Juan River: Issues of Sovereignty in Central America
- Can
Guatemala Break with Its Violent Past?
- Coexistence
Through Communication
- Learning
to Lessen Environmental Impact
- Climate
Change and the Tropical Farmer: The Current Situation
- Mothers
of Movement: Nicaraguan Domestic Workers & Successful Immigration
of Nicaraguan Families
- Comparing
the Trends of Urbanization with the Coe College Occurrence of
Dengue Fever
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Fall
2003
- La
Inmigración Nicaragüense y las Nación Superior
- The
Fall of the Campesino: Costa Rica in an Era of Economic Change
- U.S.
Foreign Policy in El Salvador: "The Fudge Factory"
- The
United States and Guatemala: Re-Examining the Role of Guatemalans
in a History of Violence
- Can
Guatemala Break with Its Violent Past?
- Homosexuality
in Costa Rica: Discrimination, Repression and Expression
- Water: From
Its Sources to Your Faucet
- To Breathe
or Not to Breathe ...? A Look at Air Pollution and Its Effects
on Society
- How Eco-Friendly
Is Ecotourism?: A Case Study of Monteverde and Manuel Antonio
- Rezando
a la Flora y a la Fauna
- Central
America at Sea: The Economic Efficiency of Sustainable Shrimp
and Fishing
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Fall
2002
- Estimating
the Effect of Education in Two Rural Communities: Santa Maria
and Punta Morales
- Motives
for Migration: The Search for a Better Education and Salary in
Costa Rica
- The
Static Societal System of Two Rural Costa Rican Communities: A
Study of the Causes of Female Gender Roles
- Religion
in Rural Costa Rican Families: Catholicism and Jehovah's Witnesses
- "Un
Día No Hace el Cambio": Continued Machista Expectations for
Women's Work in Rural Costa Rica
- The
Female Headship in Costa Rica
- Paper-Making
from Natural Plant Fibers
- Butterfly
Farming: Behavior and Development and the Processes of Butterfly
Farming
- The
Relationship Between Cirripó National Park and its Nearby Community,
San Gerardo de Rivas: Cooperation or Competition?
- Cows
in the Clouds: Dairy Farming on the Hillside of Irazú in Costa
Rica and Its Effects on the Land, the People, and the Economy
- What
Mountain People Think and Other Fascinating Stuff, or the Gravy
and the Gravel of Conservation
- Cup
o' Joe: The Process of Converting from Conventional Coffee Cultivation
to Organic Coffee Cultivation
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