In addition, three summer program options are offered:
Summer Program for Educators - 3 week Session
Summer Program for Educators - 6 week Session
Summer Language and Culture Program
Each term during the academic year a U.S. visiting faculty member teaches two specialty courses. A U.S. visiting faculty member teaches one specialty course for the summer educators program.
All courses with the exception of Spanish language, are taught in English unless otherwise noted.
FALL QUARTER 2008 COURSE LISTING
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Spanish Language: Levels 1-4 (mandatory)
Understanding Mexican Culture
The Impact of North-South Migration in Michoacán
Migrant Literature: an Ethnographic Approach
WINTER QUARTER 2009 COURSE LISTING
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Spanish Language: Levels 1-4 (mandatory)
Understanding Mexican Culture
Race, Class and Identity in Latin America
Food Systems: Local to Global
SPRING QUARTER 2009 COURSE LISTING
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Spanish Language: Levels 1-4 (mandatory)
Understanding Mexican Culture
Tourism and Community Development in Mexico
Tortillas, Tomatoes, and T-Bones: Diet and Development in Modern Mexico
SUMMER 2009 PROGRAM LISTING
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Educators program - 3 week session
Educators program - 6 week session
Language and culture program
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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Spanish Language (100 contact hours)
Level1 Level2 Level3 Level 4
Transition into life in Morelia and gain better access to Mexican culture through practical language and conversation skill development. Spanish language courses are offered at elementary through advanced levels.
Mexican Immigration to the U.S. (40 contact hours)
This course offers students a macro-level overview of the different factors and processes involved in Mexican immigration to the Unived States, focusing on the immigration flows in the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries. At the micro level, students will examine different issues affecting migrants and their communities and regions of origin, specifically in the state of Michoacan.
Contemporary Mexican History (40 contact hours)
This course is designed to provide students with a general view of the historical development of Mexico from the Revolution (1910-1920) to the beginning of the XXI century. Students will be able to discover the most important processes of Mexico's contemporary history and understand many of the challenges that Mexico currently faces.
Understanding Mexican Culture
(60 total contact hours–40 hours in the classroom and 20 hours in fieldwork)
From an interdisciplinary perspective, explore Mexican cultural, social, historical, and institutional contexts that influence attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs of Mexican migrants in specific situations in the United States.
FALL QUARTER 2008 U.S. VISITING FACULTY MEMBER COURSE
Instructor: Dr. Robert Selby, University of Oregon
The Impact of North-South Migration in Michoacán Syllabus Coming Soon (40 contact hours)
Explore how remittances from migrant workers affect communities in Michoacán. Develop an understanding of why Michoacán receives more financial support from migrants to the US than any other state in the Mexican Republic. Focus on the impacts to individuals families and communities when residents move north and either return to their native communities or create bridges between the US and home.
Migrant Literature: An Ethnographic Approach
Syllabus Coming Soon (40 contact hours)
Examine how Mexican migrants explain the meaning of daily events in the life of their community. Study Mexican literature, sometimes produced in collaboration with ethnographers of various backgrounds, has produced a stirring body of work describing migrant experiences, real and fictitious, with compelling emotion and vivid detail. Analyze the social structures and cultural values that help migrants survive in conflicting worlds.
WINTER QUARTER 2009 VISITING FACULTY MEMBER COURSES
Instructor: Pedro Ferbel-Azcarate, Assistant Professor, Black Studies/University Studies Program, Portland State University
Race, Class and Identity in Latin America (40 contact hours)
Explore definitions of race, class and identity in the different regions of Latin America, with a focus on Mexico and the Spanish speaking Caribbean. Assess the history of the Indigenous people of the Americas, the impact of European colonization on the region - systems of slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression, and other stories of human struggle, resistance, and creative identity-making. Assess contemporary social processes including immigration, globalization, regional politics and self expression.
Food Systems: Local to Global (40 contact hours)
Investigate the cultural, political, ethical and moral factors which determine our diets, and ultimately, our access to food. Study local and global food systems to understand the inter-related issues of politics, ecology and economics, which determine where our food comes from. Use excursions in Mexico to better understand the culture and politics of Mexican food, and the role of the Mexican migrant farmer in the U.S.
SPRING QUARTER 2009 VISITING FACULTY MEMBER COURSES
Instructor: Jack Corbett, Associate Professor of Public Administration, Portland State University
Tourism and Community Development in Mexico
(40 contact hours)
Explore the logic and impact of tourism as a development strategy, especially for communities with few alternatives. While industrial development and urbanization has characterized much of Mexico for the last two generations, the path to community development appears to lead through a tourism-based economy for many regions, which the Mexican government has promoted aggressively from sophisticated beach resorts to eco-tourism in remote regions.
Tortillas, Tomatoes, and T-Bones: Diet and Development in Modern Mexico (40 contact hours)
Discover the transformations in the Mexican diet as a device for assessing the impact of social and economic changes in the wake of NAFTA. Examine the current impact of NAFTA in light of the fact that 6.2 million Mexicans have abandoned the countryside due to economic decline and millions of rural and urban poor suffer from food insecurity and malnutrition. Meanwhile American supermarkets are filled with Mexican produce and meat, and American fast-food restaurants proliferate across Mexico.
DIRECT ENROLLMENT OPTIONS
Advanced-level Spanish students may choose to directly enroll in UNLA courses during the fall or spring. A good option for upper intermediate to advanced level Spanish students wanting to work on their language skills would be to take courses in the AHA program during the first term, and take direct enrollment courses at UNLA during the second term. Students interested in the direct enroll option for the spring term must enroll in both winter and spring terms at UNLA.
However, advanced-level students are able to direct enroll during their first term in Morelia, pending successful completion of an advanced-level placement exam prior to arrival in Morelia. Academic calendar dates and fees will vary for students eligible for direct enrollment and considerable advanced planning is necessary. For more information and eligibility requirements, contact AHA International.
SUMMER PROGRAM FOR EDUCATORS
The Summer Program for Educators is designed for 400-level education majors, graduate students in education, and teachers seeking summer course work applicable to their classroom environments. There are two program options.
Students enrolled in the three week session will take 20 hours of Spanish language and a visiting U.S. faculty member course on the educational and social issues facing Mexican migrants.
Students enrolled in the six week session will take 80 hours of Spanish language and a visiting U.S. faculty member course on the educational and social issues facing Mexican migrants.
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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Spanish Language
Transition into life in Morelia and gain better access to Mexican culture through practical language and conversation skill development. Spanish language courses are offered at elementary through advanced levels.
For the THREE week session (20 contact hours)
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
For the SIX week session (80 Contact Hours)
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
SUMMER EDUCATORS 2009 U.S. VISITING FACULTY MEMBER COURSE
Instructor: Emily de la Cruz, Associate Professor of Education, Portland State University
Contemporary Issues in Education that Affect Children who Experience Migration
(40 contact hours)
Study contemporary issues which impact teaching and learning environments for children who experience migration between Mexico and the Pacific Northwest and their teachers in Mexico and the United States. Identify critical issues that are impacted by social, economic, political, and historical contexts that affect the education of Mexican children today, both in Mexico and when they migrate to the U.S.
This six-week summer program is designed for all undergraduate levels of Spanish language. Students combine 80 contact hours of Spanish language with a course in Mexican history or Mexican literature.
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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Spanish Language (80 contact hours)
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
Transition into life in Morelia and gain better access to Mexican culture through practical language and conversation skill development. Spanish language courses are offered at elementary through advanced levels.
The History of Mexico
(40 contact hours - Taught in English)
Examine the history of Mexico from a Mexican perspective. Analyze and interpret different economic, social, cultural, and political conditions since the pre-colonial period that have shaped modern Mexico.
Mexican Literature
(40 contact hours -Taught in Spanish)
Explore Mexican literature as a product of historical, political, cultural, and social circumstances that reflects not only a world vision, but also the desires, disappointments, promises, and dissatisfactions of everyday life. Read and analyze various literary genres and authors.
COMMUNITY SERVICE AND VOLUNTEER WORK OPTIONS
Community service or volunteer work is an ideal complement to your academic program, significantly enhancing your professional experience and future career prospects. Students with a clearly defined set of educational and professional objectives may explore the option of arranging a service or volunteer program during fall, winter, and spring terms. For more information on options and eligibility requirements, contact AHA International.
TESOL TEACHING PRACTICUM
The Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) practicum, available fall, winter, and spring terms, offers you a hands-on teaching experience in both high school and university environments. Previous TESOL course work is required, and all placements are made on an individual basis. For more information and eligibility requirements, contact AHA International.
Not all courses listed are offered every term. Course offerings are subject to change depending on enrollment and availability.
EXCURSIONS
Mexico is your classroom—excursions to cultural and historical sites around the country are an integral part of your learning experience. Weekend visits to sites in and around Michoacán, Guanajuato and Mexico City also may be a part of the program; exact destinations vary by term.
ACADEMIC CREDIT
All courses offered in Morelia are recognized and approved for academic credit by various NCSA member institutions. Actual credit awarded is determined by the relevant department at your university in consultation with the study abroad office. Check with your study abroad adviser for more information.
Application deadlines: