If you want to learn a different perspective on human wellness within an incredibly majestic, ancient setting, then this is expedition is right for you! We emphasize naturopathic perspectives on wellness from a Navajo context, which is quite different than how we may be formally taught about wellness. During this experience we will learn the connection between landscape, story, ceremony and human health. And what better way to learn this than from Dineh (The People, Navajo)? While we respectfully will not learn detailed medicinal practices, as these practices have long been safeguarded by the Navajo people for essential reasons, we will discover alternative perspectives to medicine which can impact our own clinical approach. And we will do this on the incredibly spirit-filled Navajo landscape—from Monument Valley to Canyon de Chelly—and we will listen and learn from those who live here, whose identities are here, whose stories are here. Naturally, we will include stops along the Southwest for hikes down into the Grand Canyon and we will have Navajo guides lead us on hikes into sacred lands. At the end of this expedition, our perspectives on human wellness will broaden. This expedition offers 3 CORE Credits (THEO 332) and 1 Course for Healthcare/Nursing Majors (NURS 444). Limit 14.

A once-in-a-lifetime Remote experience! In fact, it is among the remotest of the remote! Imagine flying by floatplane into Gates of the Arctic National Preserve, the least visited of all the National Parks because access is limited to floatplane only. Imagine setting up a basecamp on a lakeshore somewhere 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle at a lake visited the last 30 years only by our pilot and Xavier people! Imagine not seeing any humans other than our group and our pilot for the entire week! Imagine that your home is also shared by caribou, grizzly bears, wolves, porcupine, wolverine, eagle, Dahl’s sheep and a host of migrating birds. The opportunity to learn communal survival techniques are lessons that you will take with you for a lifetime. Experiences of drinking from a lake so clean that the water need not be filtered. Imagine your first experience of fly fishing or gathering foods (like berries) done iN such a majestic, vast, quiet space where the sun never sets. 6 CORE CREDITS (THEO 388 and PHIL 200 or 250) for all undergraduate degrees. LIMIT 12 Students.