Argentine Expedition: Ethics and Ecology from Buenos Aires to Patagonia
With the unique opportunity to live with carefully chosen homestay families, students receive the most organic form of cultural immersion. The students will be able to embrace the culture, customs and language of the Argentine people within the comfort of a family unit.
Program Dates
May 9 - June 4, 2027
*Dates above indicate a planned departure date from the US and in-country return departure date.
Costs
Health & Safety
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Course Requirements and Offerings
Refer to the academics page for details on the minimum unit requirements and class pre-requisites for the program. Textbook lists will be provided by the program staff.
Faculty-in-Residence
Dr. Elizabeth R. Smith
elizabeth.smith@pepperdine.edu
Associate Professor of Journalism
Communication Division, Seaver College
Elizabeth R. Smith is an assistant professor of Communication at Pepperdine University and Director of Pepperdine Graphic Media. She has 14 years of experience teaching a variety of journalism and media courses at Pepperdine as well as advising and directing the Graphic newspaper (print and digital), Currents Magazine, GNews (web show), and PGM Advertising. She has nearly 20 years of professional experience in the journalism industry, including print, web and broadcast news. She is an award-winning journalist, and in 2010 won an Emmy for her work on the breaking news coverage of Michael Jackson's death. In May, Smith was named a Kopenhaver Center Fellow for 2017. Smith has partnered with the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library on the topics of news literacy and understanding the spread of fake news. Her current research includes, social media and news, social media and journalism education, news literacy among college students, and Communities of Practice in student newsrooms. Smith earned her bachelor's in Journalism from Harding University; she earned her master's and doctoral degrees from Pepperdine University. Smith continues to freelance as a writer and editor.
Dr. Chris Doran
Professor of Religion & Sustainability
Coordinator of Sustainability Program
Religion and Philosophy Division, Seaver College
Chris Doran was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. He went on to Seaver College at Pepperdine University to study biology. After receiving a bachelor's degree in biology and then a Master of Divinity from Pepperdine, he went off to Berkeley to study the intersection of theology and science. He founded the Sustainability program here at Seaver and teaches many classes related to the various impacts climate change is having on people and the planet.
Doran has spent considerable time in New Zealand researching and teaching during the last 10 years, which led him to create the sustainability study abroad program in Kaikoura. He took Seaver students to the South Island in 2018 and 2019. He took students to Buenos Aires in 2023 to study sustainability and looks forward to continuing to work on sustainability issues in Argentina during May 2027.
He is an avid runner and hiker. As a certified scuba diver, he spends as much time underwater as he is able, including 19 dives in a recent trip to Tahiti. Finally, Doran has been a friend, supporter, mentor, minister, and advocate for many of his LGBTQ+ students over the years. He has led numerous club convos on LGBTQ+ topics from a Christian perspective, gave the first 3-day lecture on LGBTQ+ concerns in the history of the Pepperdine Bible Lectures, works regularly with Centerpeace, and has given advice to numerous churches on LGBTQ+ matters.