<p>
	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}TAM 2.jpg" style="width: 250px; height: 188px; float: right;" />Do people who plan to work as missionaries and development specialists in foreign countries need environmental skills? The answer is, not surprisingly, yes. But the next question is, where can a student see missions, development, and environmental science effectively combined in a single college course? The answer to this second question is: in Au Sable&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href="{filedir_11}courses/course_information/may_term/tropical_agriculture_and_missions/"><em>Tropical Agriculture and Missions&nbsp;</em></a>course. Like all Au Sable courses, this one is field intensive, but this time the &ldquo;field&rdquo; is in Costa Rica, and it may be a field of corn, soybeans, cassava, or any of a multitude of crop plants that can flourish in a tropical environment. Tomas Dozier of Costa Rica&#39;s Association for Development through Education&nbsp;takes students from colleges across the US and Canada to learn how missions and the environment interact, and why they need to.&nbsp;</p>
