Description

Spend six weeks and earn six credits while learning about Mexican culture and society! The Arcadia Civic Engagement Summer Program at UPAEP is an extraordinary opportunity that combines dynamic classroom instruction and fieldwork and homestay experience. Enhance your summer with the traditions and customs of another country, and learn new ways in which to appreciate the world.

This program is designed to allow participants to truly become part of a community, living with a local family. Students will have the opportunity to learn about culture, tradition, family life, education, and self-sustaining agricultural and artistic production in a variety of community-based initiatives.

Highlights

* An innovative civic engagement/service learning project that gives you the opportunity to become an integral contributing member of a unique rural Mexican community, La Preciosita.

* A six-week hands-on learning experience offering an interdisciplinary curriculum that combines an intensive Spanish language component with an introduction to Mexican society, history, culture, and economics.

* Based at the Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP), where students will participate in lectures and seminars prior to the service learning component.

* A series of exclusive workshops that focus on the environment and local and native industries will take place in the community, along with a reflective seminar.

Degree Level

Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)

Subject Areas

Cost in US$:

Experience Required

no

This Program is open to

Worldwide Participants.

Typical Living Arrangements

• Dormitory
• Home-stays

Participants Travel

Independently

Typically Participants Work

Independently

Application Process Involves

• Online Application plus Application Assessment
• Transcript

Arcadia University: The College of Global Studies's Mission Statement

The College of Global Studies at Arcadia University advances the University's mission to prepare students for life in a rapidly changing global society. Because international learning is an essential component of an effective undergraduate education, Arcadia is committed to providing high-quality, academically sound and experientially rich study abroad programs and support services to a wide range of students and institutions. Aspects of this mission have existed throughout the history of The College of Global Studies at Arcadia University and today the mission is at the core of everything we do. One of the ways we apply it to our programs is through the Arcadia Commitment.

Year Founded

1853