Alternative spring break

Alternative Spring Break is an opportunity for UMass students to immerse themselves in service to members of a community—as close to UMass as the small city of Holyoke, just south of us, or as far away as the Mississippi Delta or the Dominican Republic. 

Several of the Spring Break service trips are associated with courses.  Here are three:

Civic Interfaith Alliance
The Civic Interfaith Alliance is organizing trips for Spring Break 2007 to Birmingham, Alabama; the Mississippi Delta; and New Orleans.  Students register for History 396A: History, Culture, and Spirituality, for two credits.

Grassroots Community Development
Grassroots Community Development is a four-credit Anthropology course (Anthropology 397H) which focuses on grassroots development—that is, the ways in which communities use local knowledge and other local assets to combat poverty and political disenfranchisement.  Trips for Spring Break 2007 are to Cape Charles and New Road, Virginia, and to the Mississippi Delta.

School of Nursing—trip to Dominican Republic

1. The School of Nursing is sponsoring a Spring Break 2007 trip for Nursing students to work in a hospital in the Dominican Republic.  For more information, contact Annie Heath.

Many other groups organize Spring Break trips which are not for credit.  Among them are Hillel, Newman Center, and Engineers Without Borders.