The "Baja class" is a three-week long Interterm (January) program in which students and professors from three classes travel together throughout Baja California, Mexico, observing, writing, reading, discussing and experiencing Baja. It follows, what program founder Rafe Payne has called the "Janovy method": "a ramble...punctuated with discoveries."
The Baja program at Biola University was pioneered by Rafe Payne, Professor of Biological Sciences, over 25 years ago as consisting of a class titled, "The Natural History of Baja California." Over the years the program has grown to include two additional classes: an Art seminar taught by Dan Callis, "Visual Studies in Baja" and a Sociology field research class taught by Richard Flory, "Baja California in Social and Cultural Context."
