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July Session: Tropical Forest Ecology Pitt in Ecuador Summer Application Deadline January 20, 2018 Apply
(For BYU July Session see: BYU Ecology and Sustainable Agriculture)
COMMRC 1180 - Social Media For a Sustainable Amazon - Tena Ecuador (3 credits)
Instructor: George Glenn • Assistant Professor – Marketing & Entrepreneurship
This course examines the communication challenges and opportunities provided by the rise of social media in the Amazon basin. Within the last 5 years, social media and messenger apps have begun to link remote populations to the rest of world. Exemplary of this change is the Amazon Basin where previously isolated communities now post videos of of illegal logging, speeches by their leaders, and dreams of their young people in real time. These new social channels create a newly connected frontier and voice for sustainability and enterprise. Students will review and learn how social media is used by many stakeholders (indigenous communities, governments, organizations and multi-national corporations) and how it shapes the development of Ecuador and the Amazon.
Itinerary
Saturday July 30
11:30 PM Arrive in Quito Shuttle to Real Audiencia
Sunday, July 1
8:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM Tour colonial Quito (founded 1535)
12:00 Lunch At Hotel Real Audiencia
1:PM Hike in the high altitude páramo polylepus forest.
6:30 PM Arrive at Yanayacu Cloud forest Station
7:00 PM Dinner
Monday July 2
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Hike in the cloud forest with lecture on cloud forest environment.
1:00 Lunch
2-4 Hike in the cloud forest
7:00 Dinner at Iyarina
Tuesday, July 3
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class
Course Introduction
1:00 Lunch
2-5
Swanson, Amazonian Culture and Environment
7:00 Diner
Wednesday, July 4
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class Use of social media by Amazonian tribal governments and indigenous leaders. (In class examination of websites, Facebook pages and Tweets.
Thursday, July 5
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class Use of social media by Amazonian tribal governments and indigenous leaders
1:00 Lunch
2-5 Class
Communications in the Developing Amazon
The use of social media by the government of Napo to get out its message.
Tropical Ecology
7:00
Friday, July 6
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Work on Communications and Tropical Ecology Projects
1:00 Lunch
Afternoon: Hike up the Canoa Yaku
7:00 Dinner
Saturday July 7 Free Day. No Class.
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class
1:00 Lunch
2-5 Class
7:00 Diner
Sunday July 8 Free Day. No Class.
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class
1:00 Lunch
2-5 Class
7:00 Dinner
Monday, July 9
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class Amazonian Culture and Environment
1:00 Lunch
2-5 Class Tropical Ecology. Learn to recognize major plant families.
Communications for a Sustainable Amazon
Tuesday, July 10
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class Amazonian Culture and Environment
1:00 Lunch
2-5 Class Tropical Ecology. Learn to recognize major plant families.
Communications for a Sustainable Amazon
Wednesday, July 11
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class Amazonian Culture and Environment
1:00 Lunch
2-5 Class Tropical Ecology
Communications for a Sustainable Amazon
Thursday July 12
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class Amazonian Culture and Environment
1:00 Lunch
2-5 Class Tropical Ecology
Communications for a Sustainable Amazon
Friday, July 13
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Work on Communications and Tropical Ecology Projects
1:00 Lunch
Afternoon: Free for travel or study
7:00 Dinner
Saturday July 14 Free Day. No Class.
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class
1:00 Lunch
2-5 Class
7:00 Diner
Sunday July 15 Free Day. No Class.
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class
1:00 Lunch
2-5 Class
7:00 Dinner
Monday, July 16 Yasuní National Park
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class
1:00 Lunch
2-5 Class
7:00 Diner
Tuesday, July 17 Yasuni National Park
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class
1:00 Lunch
2-5 Study the communications battle over uncontacted people. Compare tothe reality as understood by the Waorani relatives of uncontacted groups.
7:00 Diner
Wednesday, July 18 Yasuni National Park
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class
1:00 Lunch
2-5 Class Meet with the manager of the Yasuni Scientific Station, Carlos Padilla to study the communications strategy of the Station.
7:00 Diner
Thursday, July 19 Return to Iyarina. View African Palm plantations and Oil Fields. Contrast the reality to the Social media image these industries present.
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class Amazonian Culture and Environment
1:00 Lunch
2-5 Class Tropical Ecology
Communications for a Sustainable Amazon
7:00 Diner
Friday, July 20
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Work on Communications and Tropical Ecology Projects
1:00 Lunch
Afternoon: Free for travel or study
7:00 Dinner
Saturday, July 21 Free Day. No Class.
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class
1:00 Lunch
2-5 Class
7:00 Diner
Sunday, July 22 Free Day. No Class.
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class
1:00 Lunch
2-5 Class
7:00 Diner
Monday, July 23
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class Amazonian Culture and Environment
1:00 Lunch
2-5 Class Tropical Ecology
Communications for a Sustainable Amazon
Tuesday, July 24
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class Amazonian Culture and Environment
1:00 Lunch
2-5 Class Tropical Ecology
Communications for a Sustainable Amazon
Wednesday, July 25
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class Amazonian Culture and Environment
1:00 Lunch
2-5 Class Tropical Ecology
Communications for a Sustainable Amazon
Thursday, July 26
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Class Amazonian Culture and Environment
1:00 Lunch
2-5 Class Tropical Ecology
Communications for a Sustainable Amazon
Friday, July 27
8:00 Breakfast
9-12 Work on Communications and Tropical Ecology Projects
1:00 Lunch
Afternoon: Free for travel or study
7:00 Dinner
Saturday July 28 Travel to the airport