The India Center promotes student learning through independent studies and internships. India offers a breadth of internships from volunteering with children through Mother Theresa’s group of nuns to helping women become empowered in rural areas. Students work with a faculty advisor to pursue the topic of their choice, which may involve volunteer work with a local organization.

Some recent subjects that have been studied include:

• conflict resolution
• the life of Gandhi
• intercultural communication
• women’s literature
• effects of tourism on indigenous people
• effects of globalization on traditional practices
• media and local culture
• societies in transition/rural development
• Tibetan medicine
• alternative systems of healing
• meditation and holistic spirituality
• sustainable and organic agriculture
• wildlife and human conflict in South Asia
• effects of urbanization on natural resources

Examples of independent study locations include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Navadarshanam, community based on sustainable living
• Dr. Narayan Reddy’s farm, organic farming
• Auroville, alternative community
• Missionaries of Charity, volunteer work
• BOSCO, street children organization
• Life and Society of Rajasthan, cultural study

For CURRENT student academic questions e-mail: sacindia@eth.net
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