The Center offers several travel course opportunities that enhance students' knowledge and understanding of culturally-based healing practices, natural products and differing world views of healthcare.
For registration information about these and other educational programs offered by the Center, call us at 612-624-5166 or email Carla Mantel at cmantel@umn.edu
Global Healing in Peru!
In this interdisciplinary travel study program, participants will learn from local Amazonian indigenous healers about traditional healing paradigms and indigenous healing arts of the jungles of Peru, and how they compare and contrast with our modern medicine. Participants will explore the role of medicinal plants and spirituality in healing.
Global Healing is lead by Connie Grauds, RPH, MNPA. Students will work with indigenous healer Antonio Montero Pisco in Iquitos. Karen Lawson, MD will assist.
Where? Iquitos, Peru When? May Term, 2012 How Much? Around $4400. Contact Carla at cmantel@umn.edu or 612-624-5166 for further information, or APPLY NOW.
Plants in Human Affairs Spend 12 days in January on the Big Island of Hawaii and earn 4 credits!
Join renowned experts in ethnobotany, Dennis McKenna, PhD, and Kathleen Harrison for this four-credit intensive amongst tropical and rare plants of Hawaii! Students, both grad and undergrad welcome, will be introduced to the science of ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology and the role of plants in human affairs through lectures, exciting field trips and engaging presentations by local experts. For course flyer, click here.
From the beginning of time, plants have played a significant role in human affairs, influencing the evolution of civilizations, cultures, human migration, medicine, healthcare, war, art, mythology and religion.
Plants in Human Affairs is open to all University of Minnesota students, the public, and students at other universities. It will provide participants with cross-cultural perspectives on humanity's age-old relationships with plants, drugs and toxins, an understanding of the importance of plants as sources of food, fiber, and medicines, and an appreciation of the contributions that indigenous plant wisdom has made to the evolution of medicine and the discovery of new medicines from nature. To see pictures from the last Hawaii course, visit Professor McKenna's photo album here.
Registration deadline is October 15, 2011. To register for this course, please call Carla Mantel at 612-624-5166 or email her at cmantel@umn.edu.
When? January 1-14, 2012 How much? $2,500 course fee + tuition includes some meals, lodging, field trips. Airfare not included. Course #: CSPH 5405(4 credits) Register by: October 15, 2011 Contact Carla Mantel at 612-624-5166 for further information.
