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Quick View of all of our Academic Programs Abroad
Programs based in Cuernavaca, Mexico
Study the dynamics of social, economic, political and cultural change in Mexico and Central America with a focus on gender and women's perspectives. The program opens with a week-long orientation at the U.S.-Mexico border, and includes homestays, internships and independent research opportunities, intensive Spanish language instruction, and a two-week travel seminar to El Salvador. More...
Integrate academic work with direct learning experiences in the growing industrial and international business center of Cuernavaca, Mexico. The program offers Intensive Spanish language instruction, a course on international business in the global context, a four-week family stay, and an internship or independent study. More...
Engaging our Communities (Spring term) Explore issues of migration, immigration, and globalization. This is an ideal program for students who are interested in working with Spanish-speaking populations in the United States, as it includes intensive Spanish language classes, an internship or independent research opportunity, and courses that help students understand the connections between globalization and migration and learn from diverse communities that are organizing for positive social change around issues of race, ethnicity, socio-economic class, gender, sexuality, economics, and the environment. More...
Created jointly by a collaboration of CSWE-accredited social work programs to satisfy the curriculum requirements for the BSW degree, this program aims to develop cross-culturally competent, ethical social work professionals with a global perspective by providing a semester of transformative, experiential learning focused on social and economic justice. In addition to intensive language instruction, the program includes family stays and the opportunity to fulfill a social work field placement requirement. More...
Internship Opportunities based in Cuernavaca, Mexico CGE- Mexico offers part-time internships for academic credit (4 semester hours) within the context of one of our semester programs or full-time internships for J-term, summer, semester, or a full year. Full-time internships can be completed for academic credit or not, depending upon the needs of the applicants, and are open to gap year students, recent college graduates, and graduate students, as well as undergraduate students.
Summer Programs Choose from three different program tracks:
Track A: Gender, Art and Social Change
Track B: Spanish Language and Culture Choose two of the 17 Spanish courses offered.This track is ideal for Spanish majors or minors. Applicants for this track should have already taken the equivalent of SPA 211 (Intermediate Spanish I)
Track C: Academic Internship and Independent Research This track is ideal for bilingual students or advanced Spanish students who have prior experience in Latin America.
Options for Pre-Professional Majors
Based in Namibia
Explore the processes of the political and social change occurring in Namibia as it transition from the experience of colonialism and apartheid to independence and democratic rule, seeking to build a “non-racial society.” The program begins and ends with seminars in South Africa, includes family stays in Johannesburg, Windhoek, and rural Namibia, and opportunities for hands-on experience through a variety of internship placements. More...
Social Change and Development in Southern Africa Summer Session: June 1 - August 9, 2009
Based in Central America
Explore the root causes of conflict and the processes of social change in Central America, examine the theory and practice of liberation theology and church-related social movements, and trace gender, class and racial conflict within different historical periods The program includes intensive language study, and family stays in Guatemala and Nicaragua. More...
Spanish Language and Mayan Spirituality (Guatemala - Summer Session I: May 31-July 3, 2009) Based in Antigua, Guatemala. Learn about the complex relationship that exists between indigenous spiritualities and Roman Catholicism in Mesoamerica The influence of Mayan spirituality on Latin American societies.
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Social Change
and Development in Southern Africa provides students with an opportunity
to learn about contemporary and historical issues impacting development
and social change in Southern Africa and the efforts to address such
issues. Students will learn through course study as well as attachment
with a local organization. Internship field placements will provide
students hands-on learning opportunities, as well as opportunities for
personal and professional development. Participants will also be offered
additional opportunities for experiential learning and community
engagement through in-country orientations, homestays and travel
seminars throughout Namibia.
