Forms, guides, and resources for every stage of your SFS experience.
Background reading, eligibility criteria, and the documents to share with parents, advisors, or your financial-aid office. Everything below is a PDF.
Tuition and fees for every program, with a clear breakdown of what's included.
Recent alumni who'll talk with you about their SFS experience, sorted by major and center.
Physical, cognitive, and behavioral requirements every applicant should review before applying.
Credit transfer, grading, attendance, and how SFS courses are structured.
Student conduct, safety, and the program-wide rules that apply at every center.
Country-by-country context and on-program support for LGBTQ+ students.
Directed Research is the capstone of the SFS semester: small student teams, resident faculty, and a question the host community actually needs answered. The record lives here: titles semester by semester, the full project history from each center, and the published papers that have come out of the centers. All PDFs.
Directed Research topics students have tackled in recent semesters. Browse them to see the range your own project could take.
The full record from each center: every project of the past few semesters, who advised it, the students who ran it, and what the fieldwork turned up.
Forty-plus years of SFS-affiliated research, indexed by year and center.
Fillable forms for enrollment, background checks, and transcript delivery, plus the financial-aid application packet.
Field guides and country-specific paperwork for each of the twelve SFS centers. Visa requirements vary; some countries need none at all.
Course-by-course syllabi for every SFS program: learning outcomes, weekly schedule, readings, and how you'll be graded.
Rainforest to Reef
Himalayan Environment and Society in Transition
Freshwater and Forest Ecosystems
Wild Patagonia: Fire and Ice
Ecological Resilience Studies
Sea Turtles and Marine Mammals of the Adriatic
Sustaining Traditions: Food, Farming, and Climate
Endangered Species
Tropical Island Biodiversity Studies
The Living Amazon
Wildlife Management Studies
Marine Resource Studies
