{"id":3694,"date":"2014-02-04T11:01:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/?p=3694"},"modified":"2014-02-04T11:01:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T18:01:10","slug":"lfs-302b-international-field-studies-in-indonesia-may-1-31-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/2014\/02\/04\/lfs-302b-international-field-studies-in-indonesia-may-1-31-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"LFS 302B International Field Studies in Indonesia &#8211; May 1 &#8211; 31, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This undergraduate food and resource economics summer field course in Indonesia consists of instruction, planning and implementation of a performance assessment or monitoring and evaluation (M&amp;E) methodology.\u00a0 The specific methodology, Monitoring &amp; Evaluation for Timely Responses (METR), uses experiential learning (real-world examples) to provide students with an effective tool for independent <i>ex-post<\/i> development project evaluation used by civil society private and public sector professionals.\u00a0 After a week of instruction, three weeks are spent evaluating an actual development project in Indonesia by a team of students led by the instructor.\u00a0 Students are assigned tasks to assess project finance &amp; economics, institutional development &amp; governance, or appropriateness of the project science and technology.<\/p>\n<p>Application is required and due Feb 24, 2014 so don&#8217;t wait!\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.landfood.ubc.ca\/undergraduate\/lfs-302b-application\">http:\/\/www.landfood.ubc.ca\/undergraduate\/lfs-302b-application<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information, you can find the<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/lfs-302b-international-field-studies-in-indonesia-may-1-31-2014\/lfs-302b-2014_metr_summer-field-course_syllabus_v3-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3695\">LFS 302B course outline her<\/a>e.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This undergraduate food and resource economics summer field course in Indonesia consists of instruction, planning and implementation of a performance assessment or monitoring and evaluation (M&amp;E) methodology.\u00a0 The specific methodology, Monitoring &amp; Evaluation for Timely Responses (METR), uses experiential learning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/2014\/02\/04\/lfs-302b-international-field-studies-in-indonesia-may-1-31-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17824,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722108],"tags":[1024,890060,890059,890061],"class_list":["post-3694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-courses-and-topics","tag-indonesia","tag-international-field-studies","tag-lfs-302b","tag-metr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17824"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3697,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions\/3697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}