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Mongolia: Culture and Development
Program Overview
Study efforts to balance open-door policies with those that protect indigenous cultures in Mongolia. Students experience life in a country both protected and restricted by a dramatic physical environment that includes the Gobi Desert as well as vast mountain and forest steppes.
Landlocked between Siberia and northern China, much of this rugged nation is still largely isolated from global development. Its population remains essentially nomadic, living in traditional ger, or felt tents, and moving constantly over an area twice the size of Texas.
The program base is the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, home of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences and local universities. Field excursions to rural areas, including homestays in nomadic camps, give students a comparative view of Mongolia's diversity. Students also view the country's transition from a centrally planned economy to a free-market system.
