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Do you enjoy nature and photography? Then this course may be just what you are looking for. This course introduces students to the use of digital photography to explore plant and animal species and their habitats. The course will begin with an introduction to digital photography, and then we travel to Costa Rica, where students will focus for 10 days on a variety of organisms, learning to photograph them while exploring their biology.

We will visit a variety of locations and learn about conservation efforts that are ongoing in Costa Rica. After studying species and their conservation concerns, students will complete a project that utilizes visual imagery to educate others about the value of and/or threats to biodiversity in Costa Rica.

Please note that this is an active course. We will be hiking, discussing biodiversity, and taking pictures every day.

This course fulfills the AI and IDP (for CDM) or SE and IDP (for BIO) requirements.

Students hiked up a mountain to enjoy a view of the Costa Rican landscape.

A beach in Costa Rica.

Students stopping at a waterfall during a hike.

A sloth on a tree.

A collared aracari. (Adriana Respondi Trocchio ’26)

A green iguana. (Anabel Lopez ’27)

A great egret. (Brady Reiseck ’26)

A yellow-headed caracara. (Julia Gatto ’27)

A red-eyed tree frog. (Juliana Macauley ’26)

Clouds rolling through the Costa Rican mountains. (Eric Stepina ’28)

Rooftops of buildings on a mountain. (Rachel Meilinger ’27)

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