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The Environmental Vocation Internship offers undergraduate
students at Santa Clara University the opportunity to develop
environmental leadership skills through participatory action
research and education, combined with faith formation and
personal mentoring. It combines campus-based education for
undergraduates with community-based environmental education in
local faith communities (parishes, congregations).
Students are required to enroll in two concurrent courses, “Faith,
Ethics, and the Biodiversity Crisis” and “Environmental
Justice Practicum,” while simultaneously conducting
environmental education among local faith communities. The
internship will consist of a two quarter sequence. Interns will
conduct their work in the Central Valley (Stockton) or the
Central Coast (Monterey) region. The internship will orient
students to a spiritually-grounded vision of stewardship that
embraces social justice work as well as advocacy for the
intrinsic value of Creation and biodiversity. In 2004-5, the
internship will operate winter and spring quarter, January
through June, with an anticipated six interns (the EJ class will
be taught in Fall 2004 and the biodiversity course in winter
2005). This internship will operate at least three years, with
up to eighteen students annually. |
