Off-campus courses, both international and in the United States, are offered during the January Interim. They vary from year to year. Details are available in the Off-Campus Interims brochure published each spring and in the Interims Announcement printed in mid-fall.
El próximo enero se estrena un interino nuevo para estudiantes de nivel Spanish 250, un interino que estará bajo la dirección de la Dra. Gwendolyn Barnes-Karol. Doña Gwen ha enseñado antes en España y es experta en literatura y cultura peninsular. Si desea conseguir información sobre esta oportunidad académica, pasar por Manitou Cottage y hablar con la ayudante administrativa de International Studies and Off-campus Programs. Para los estudiantes de nivel Spanish 232 se sigue ofreciendo los interinos en Costa Rica y Ecuador.
The following programs will be offered in January 2004:
Spanish 233 Intermediate Spanish in Ecuador
Spanish 261 Spain's Cultural and Linguistic Legacy in Spain
Spanish 234 Intermediate Spanish in Costa Rica
Spanish 234 (the equivalent of 232 on campus) provides students with the opportunity to complete their fourth-semester of Spanish in Costa Rica, a Spanish-speaking country in Central America. Students will continue to develop their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills in Spanish through living with a Costa Rican family, acquiring and processing information about Costa Rica, attending classes and participating in field trips and excursions. Special emphasis will be given to description and narration, comparison and contrast, and explanation and analysis of such topics as the following:
1. Costa Ricans (Ticos) and their physical environment: the urban landscape of San José, the capital city, and the diverse ecological systems of two coasts and the mountains and valleys in between, including a volcano or two.
2. Family, kinship, gender and social relations in urban and, to some degree, rural Costa Rica.
3. Education, work and leisure activities in San José and, to a lesser degree, outside of the capital.
4. Cultural similarities and differences between groups within Costa Rica and between North American and Costa Rican societies.
Family Homestay in San José:
All students will live in private homes in the San José area during the interim, except during excursions. The homestay will provide an experience in language immersion and allow students to observe and participate in family life in Costa Rica.
Excursions:
We will take two overnight excursions, one to the province of Limón on the Caribbean coast and the second to Monteverde and the Central Pacific coast. There are also two outings on Saturdays to see volcanos and other places of interest.
(Left) Maggie Broner and her students pose for a group picture in front of La Basílica de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles in Cartago, Costa Rica. (Below) ¡La música costarricense es fantástica!
"I had anticipated gorgeous landscape and weather to match, but I never imagined that I would fall in love with the people and their culture. It is possible to find fantastic geography all over the world, but only in Costa Rica can one find "Ticos" (Costa Ricans); it is these people and the warmth that they extend to their guests that make this program stand out." ~ Cecily Robinson, student
Here, students enjoy the beauty of the Ecuadorian countryside as well as the Amazon region.
Interim Courses
