Seminar on Mexico and Field Experience

Course Description

The purpose of this seminar is to combine the study of Spanish language with the culture, history, geography, literature and politics of Mexico in an intense, student-centered, immersion experience. This program offers first year students the opportunity to study Mexico in depth while they continue to develop their ability to communicate in Spanish. The exposure to another people´s language, history, culture and language also offers students the opportunity to reflect on their own language and culture. Students obtain their information through books, newspapers, magazines, videos, professionally prepared CDs and PowerPoint presentations. Moreover, they participate in a culminating experience in the form of a two week immersion experience in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico to see, hear, smell, taste and touch what they have studied.TO BE ELIGIBLE, STUDENTS MUST PLACE INTO SPANISH 103 (OR HIGHER). THIS COURSE FULFILLS THE LIBERAL LEARNING REQUIREMENT OF A THIRD SEMESTER OF A LANGUAGE.