Learning Goals and Impacts

Specific goals for you to achieve:

• critical thinking skills and application to solving problems related to a foreign country
  • How to approach a case study project.
  • Organization of group time/responsibilities
  • Search strategies for background information
• communication skills and in particular, strategies to communicate in a language other than English
  • How to comunicate and work in a web intesive world in a language that you do not speak.
• appreciation of ethical/social issues in global agriculture, wildlife management and human reproduction as they relate to manipulation of reproductive systems
  • An understanding of Mexico, its agriculture, and people.
  • Influence of social and enviornmental conditions on solutions to problems.
  • How political realities and religion may play into solutions.
  • Case 7 is in the US so for that case we modiy these goals to include: How do imigrant labor policies impact ability to obtain labor for mangement of cattle in the western US? Is hispanic labor legal or illegal? Would closing of the US border with Mexico impact grazing of cattle in the western US? How does the likely religion of hispanic labor fit with religous beliefs of the dominant religions of Wyoming?

Impacts we expect to have on you:

• understanding how theory applies to application in the novel environment of a new culture, ethical system or region of the US
  • broaden your horizons and ability to communicate in a language you may not speak
  • Learn how to utilize software essential to communication in the modern age.
• empathize with individual that have differences based on cultural, ethnicity and religion
• development of human capacity for competitiveness in global agriculture (you are the human capacity)
  • understand agriculture and its competiteness in Mexico
  • what atracks and keeps hispanic labor in a US agricultural market
• Written communication - learn website construction that includes figures, tables, images and text.
• Oral communication - learn how to construct an audio podcast
• Scientific literature knowledge and evaluation - the website you will develop will include some actual data from technical published articles as well as information from review articles and books.
• Evaluation of websites - you must determine if websites referenced are reputable.