COURSE TITLE: Global Development and Humanitarian Aid Training at La Roche College, Pittsburgh, PA USA
Date: June 30 - July 13, 2013
Apply before April 15: $2,750
Apply after April 15: $3,100
La Roche College invites college graduates and working professionals to participate in an innovative training, offering a starting point for an exciting career in aid and development.
Partnering with RedR UK, one of the world’s premier training organizations, La Roche’s program will develop these core competencies:
- Understanding human rights and humanitarian contexts, principles and law
- Working collaboratively to achieve results
- Ensuring safety and security under conditions of pressure and change
THE TRAINING PROGRAM OFFERS:
- Two-week online pre- and post-trainings, providing initial assessment, orientation to key
concepts and ideas, and program follow-up
- Two-week intensive on-campus training, using simulations and other applied skills training, field visits to humanitarian aid organizations, RedR UK training, and guest lectures by experienced professionals
- Field experience opportunities and college/graduate credits available
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- Two weeks room and board
- A global student body
- An overview of emergencies and humanitarian crises
- Concepts of globalization and development and connecting emergency aid to development
- How to enter the humanitarian field
- Understanding humanitarian guidelines and international agreements
- Simulations and collaborative work
- Connections to field experience after completion
- Trip to Washington, D.C., visiting USAID and other important institutions in the humanitarian field
- Apple iPad with all class readings and important documents for the field - including weblinks and apps for collaboration
- Evening and weekend activities and outings
- Undergraduate or graduate credit available
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