Tulane University
Havana, Cuba
June 11- July 1, 2000
Course Objectives
This is an intensive course on the environment in Cuba. The course
critically examines the Cuban experience in ecological development, sustainable
agriculture and environmental policy. Combining lectures with extensive readings,
discussions, and site visits, the course is designed to cover the ecological development
that has occurred in Cuba.
Additional Required Reading
Roger Stone. The Nature of Development: A Report from the Rural
Tropics on the Quest for Sustainable Economic Growth. New York: Knopf, 1992.
Course Outline and Schedule
Please note: The following is tentative, and may be modified at the
discretion of the professor. Students should have read, assimilated and be prepared to
discuss the reading assignments on the day on which they appear below.
June 11 Group arrives in Havana
June 12 Orientation, city tour, reception
June 13 Classes begin.
Social sciences and agricultural development and rural sustainability.
June 14 Cuban agro-animal husbandry: Antecedents and development after 1959.
June 15 Popular participation in development decision making.
June 16 Sustainable agriculture due to agro-ecological transformations in Cuba.
June 17-18 Field trip to Trinidad /Cienfuegos
June 19 Production and utilization of biogas. Off-site Academic Excursion: Visit to an
industrial production center in Habana
June 20 Refuse recycling in Cuba.
June 21 Environmental education for the agricultural extensionist.
June 22 Popular environmental education.Off-site academic excursion: Havana City
Council.
June 23 Tourism and the Environment.
June 24-25 Field trip to Viñales /Pinar del Río
June 26 Cuban Environmental Policy
June 27 Cuban Environmental Policy.
June 28 Sanitation policies and practices.
June 29 Waterways preservation, review. Off-site Academic Excursion. Visit to family
medicine and the Iberolatinamerican Center for the elderly.
June 30 Final exam.
July 1 Depart Havana to U.S.
