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Where: Managua in Nicaragua
When: Fall Semester, Spring Semester
Augsburg College - Center for Global Education Sustainable Development and Social Change explores the life and culture of the peoples of Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua.
Overview This is an experiential program which includes meetings with guest lecturers, field trips and homestays.
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Setting Homestays in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala; Guest house in San Salvador, El Salvador; and homestays or study center in Managua, Nicaragua.
Value This program focuses on issues of peace and justice and includes many meetings with grassroots groups.
Where: Managua in Nicaragua
When: Fall Semester, Spring Semester
Fairfield University This immersion program at the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) offers a wide variety of courses. Three years of college-level Spanish is required.
Overview UCA is Latin America's first private university. The program offers an opportunity to understand the country and its people as they confront issues of poverty, economic competitiveness and infrastructure development.
Setting Nicaragua is the "land of lakes and volcanoes" with a diversity of settings, including tropical forests and ocean beaches. Its hospitable citizens are its greatest asset.
Value Homestay and meals are provided, as are intensive pre-session in Spanish, a language partner, a full week in Costa Rica, two trips in Nicaragua, opportunities for internship and/or volunteer activities. Also included: onsite student support, 24-hour emergency coverage, airport pickup, insurance.
Where: Managua in Nicaragua
When: Fall Semester, Spring Semester
SIT Study Abroad This programs takes you to Nicaragua's key cultural and historic sites where Spanish colonial powers, the Sandinista revolution, and the Contra War have left their legacy. Throughout the program, lectures and field visits illustrate ways in which social and political movements, including women's movements, are informed by and respond to both domestic and external influences, including US foreign policy.
Overview Intensive Language Study: Spanish; Revolution, Transformation, and Civil Society Seminar: Political History, Social Movements and Civil Society, Economics and Development, Coastal Culture and Identity, The Cuban Experience, Agricultural Community Visit, and Educational Excursions; Field Study Seminar; and Independent Study Project. (16 credits in total)
Setting 7 weeks homestay in Managua. The program includes 3 in-depth field trips. The first, in the rural northern area of Nicaragua, focuses on sustainable agricultural development models and includes a village stay in either Matagalpa or Esteli. The second is an 8-day excursion to Cuba, where you learn about Cuban history and society and have opportunities to meet and discuss issues with Cubans from a wide range of backgrounds. Finally, you travel to Bluefields and Pearl Lagoon on the Caribbean Coast and meet with representatives of Creole and Miskito communities to discuss issues of autonomy and indigenous rights.
Value Please inquire for costs: Fees include tuition, full room and board, all field trips and related fares, health and accident insurance, and other direct program expenses. Participants pay for international airfare and domestic travel to the point of departure from the USA.
Where: Nicaragua
When: Fall Semester, Winter Semester, Spring Semester
Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) Are you interested in:
Overview CELL is partnering with Grupo Fenix, a Nicaragua-based cooperative network of university-trained engineers and local community people who share a common passion for developing solar- and renewable-energy technologies and finding cost-effective ways to have these simple technologies utilized. Providing affordable and renewable electricity to rural villages helps to reduce the overconsumption of firewood which causes deforestation, the drying up of local rivers, serious erosion, and loss of top soil.
Setting You will arrive in either San Jose, Costa Rica or Managua, Nicaragua where you will tour historic and cultural sites and receive two weeks of intensive Spanish immersion that wiil give you a language base for the semester experience.
Value The Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) offers more than an exciting study abroad program. We offer a life-changing educational adventure where you will:
Where: Nicaragua
When: Academic Year
ICADS In accordance with ICADS objectives, this program offers a structured internship experience which helps to integrate theoretical concepts and real-world experience. Parallel to its academic aims, the Internship program challenges students to develop self-initiative, personal resourcefulness, and a commitment to progressive social change.
Overview The internship allows students the opportunity to do meaningful academic and practical work under the supervision of highly trained and committed international professionals. At the same time permits them to make a contribution by giving something back to the host society through the projects on which they work.
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Where: Nicaragua
When: Winter Semester, Summer
La Suerte Biological Field Station The Field School offers broad undergraduate and graduate training in Neotropical field ecology. Classes are limited to around 24 students. With one senior faculty and three graduate teaching assistants per course, the small class size insures an optimal student:faculty ratio of 1 to 6.
E-mail To:info@lasuerte.org
Where: Managua in Nicaragua
When: Fall Semester, Winter Semester, Spring Semester, Summer
Nicaragua Spanish Schools Spanish language cultural immersion program at four Spanish schools in diverse areas of Nicaragua that support local social service, education, and cultural development programs.
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