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Taking the Classroom on Tour
Summer courses in locales around the world have become almost an expected part of a student’s education at Tulane SPHTM.
Summer courses in locales around the world have become almost an expected part of a student’s education at Tulane’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. The courses allow students to experience global public health issues in real time, as they happen. Typically, these courses combine classroom lectures with field experiences that turn abstract issues into tangible realities. Courses this past summer included offerings in Suriname (a joint venture of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and the Department of International Health and Development), Sierra Leone (the second course in that country taught by tropical medicine faculty), and Malaysia (the first undergraduate public health course, also sponsored by the Department of Tropical Medicine).
	Suriname: While they say you can’t go home again, Dr. Maureen Lichtveld did just that this past summer, along with about a dozen Tulane graduate students and colleagues. More >>
	Malaysia: A group of Tulane undergraduates spent four weeks in Malaysia this summer as part of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine's first international undergraduate service-learning course. More >>

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