Cat Braza in Italy: Phone-free in France.
Catherine "Cat" Braza is HECUA's student blogger for the Fall Semester of our Sustainable Food, Agriculture and Justice program. Cat is a junior at Colorado College, in Colorado Springs. She's majoring in Environmental Science, with a double minor in Music and Studio Art. Read on for dispatches from Cat's phoneless adventure in France.
The first day of our fall break—which marked the halfway point in our semester abroad—a millennial’s worst nightmare happened: I left my phone on the bus. By the time I realized I didn’t have it, that bus was already recklessly speeding on its merry way to...
Thomas Stephenson in New Zealand: canoeing the Whanganui.
Thomas Stephenson is HECUA's student blogger from the New Zealand Culture and the Environment: A Shared Future program this fall semester. Thomas is a junior, majoring in Communications and minoring in Cinema at Denison University, in Granville, Ohio. Read on for his description of traditional Maori canoeing.
Late into our trip around the North Island of New Zealand, our group got a chance to try some traditional Maori canoeing, and it was as exhilarating as it was educational. When I read on our schedule that we’d be canoeing on the Whanganui River, I had a totally different picture in my...
Mike Hoyt is the new Co-Director of Art for Social Change!
We're thrilled to introduce the newest member of the HECUA teaching team: Minneapolis artist Mike Hoyt! Together with Molly Van Avery, Mike will co-direct our Art for Social Change program in Minneapolis. Mike is a professional artist in addition to working as a nonprofit arts administrator at the Pillsbury House + Theatre. He has over 20 years of experience managing and guiding art-based community development projects. You can learn more about Mike and his work in the brief interview below!
HECUA: How and when did you begin working for HECUA?
Mike Hoyt: My first interaction or work with...
Cari Monroe: Environmental Sustainability at Lily Springs Farm.
HECUA's Environmental Sustainability class offers every enrolled student the opportunity to earn a Permaculture Design Certificate. Students in this fall's class are completing the certification requirements at Lily Springs Farm in Osceola, Wisconsin. HECUA student Cari Monroe, an Environmental Studies major at the University of St. Thomas, shared this dispatch from Lily Springs with us a few weeks ago. After a long work and learning day on the farm, students are free to relax and explore. Read on to see what Cari uncovered!
A large part of our curriculum for HECUA includes out of the...
Alumni Profile: Jonah Seifer
Welcome to our Alumni Profile series. Each month we’ll catch up with at least one HECUA alumni, and see how their time in a HECUA classroom influenced their career goals, their life in the community, and their pursuit of continued education. If you or a friend would like to participate in this series, please email [email protected]. For the final weeks of October we were lucky enough to connect with Fall 2014 New Zealand alum Jonah Seifer. Jonah graduated from Colorado College just this year, with a degree in Environmental Physics. Read on for how Jonah's work on his Independent Study Project...
Cat Braza in Italy: living in season.
Catherine "Cat" Braza is HECUA's student blogger for the Fall Semester of our Sustainable Food, Agriculture and Justice program. Cat is a junior at Colorado College, in Colorado Springs. She's majoring in Environmental Science, with a double minor in Music and Studio Art. Read on for Cat's first impressions of life in Tuscany.
A little over a week ago, I made the most of my four-day weekend off and saw the Pope, the Sistine Chapel, the Colosseum, as well as world-famous works of art by Michelangelo, Bernini, and Raphael nestled nonchalantly in modest roadside cathedrals. One of my favorite...
Thomas Stephenson in New Zealand: the life-force of rivers.
Thomas Stephenson will be HECUA's student blogger from the New Zealand Culture and the Environment: A Shared Future program this fall semester. Thomas is a junior, majoring in Communications and minoring in Cinema at Denison University, in Granville, Ohio. Read on for Thomas' second blog post from New Zealand.
After a little more than a months time spent in New Zealand, I’ve seen a wide variety of amazing scenery, met incredibly kind and interesting people, and been exposed to multiple angles of several important environmental debates facing this country. However, this regularity screeched...
Ella Budzinski in Norway: Beyond the Classroom
Ella Budzinski is HECUA’s fall semester student blogger for The New Norway program! She is a Spanish and Communications Sciences & Disorders major and Scandinavian Studies minor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She’ll be posting on the HECUA blog regularly this fall semester. Read on for Ella’s second post from Norway.
One of the things I love about the HECUA program here in Norway is that we do more than attend lectures in a classroom. We get real world experience that is woven into our curriculum so that we can see for ourselves how what we're learning about is implemented in...
Cat Braza in Italy
Catherine "Cat" Braza is HECUA's student blogger for the Fall Semester of our Sustainable Food, Agriculture and Justice program. Cat is a junior at Colorado College, in Colorado Springs. She's majoring in Environmental Science, with a double minor in Music and Studio Art. Read on for Cat's first impressions of life in Tuscany.
I had been told before I arrived to study abroad in Tuscany that the piazza is the epicenter of society in most Italian towns. If you don’t already know, a piazza is essentially a town square, a place where the many winding roads and townspeople intersect. Indeed, one...
Thomas Stephenson in New Zealand
Thomas Stephenson will be HECUA's student blogger from the New Zealand Culture and the Environment: A Shared Future program this fall semester. Thomas is a junior, majoring in Communications and minoring in Cinema at Denison University, in Granville, Ohio. Read on for Thomas' first impressions of New Zealand.
I’ve been in New Zealand two weeks, and I’ve already experienced so much it was tough to limit myself to one topic! After our group’s tour of the Xtreme Zero Waste recycling and reuse plant in the small surf community of Raglan, however, I knew that this was experience I wanted to share...
