Study Abroad in Latin America

How will you touch the world? Cultural and Development Studies in Latin America with ProWorld Immerse yourself in the sights, sounds, and culture of Latin America through this life-changing program. ProWorld’s semesters balance academics and service in sustainable community development projects for a truly rewarding study abroad experience. Community service, field study, and excursions complement coursework with local and international professors. Dates: Fall, Spring and Summer Semesters Cost: Program fees include tuition and fees, project work, housing, all meals, onsite transportation, cultural/adventure activities, travel/health insurance, and 24-hour onsite staff support. Program fees can be found online at www.myproworld.org/costs/prices.htm. Scholarships and fundraising support available. Contact: ProWorld Headquarters, ProWorld Service Corps, 1215 Taylor Avenue, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA Tel: 877.42WORLD (US & Canada), 870.750.7202 (UK & Europe) Email: info@myproworld.org Website: www.myproworld.org

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Antioch University Brazilian Ecosystems: The Protection and Management of Biodiversity Established in 1989, Antioch’s Brazilian Ecosystems Program is the only study abroad program that enables students to engage in field studies across a variety of biomes in Brazil. Over the course of three months, students travel throughout Brazil to study ecology, field methodology, and natural resource management. From lectures on restoration ecology to meetings with rural farmers and rubber tappers, and seminars with policy specialists, this program offers a complete overview of complex issues involved in conservation and natural resource management. During the final four weeks of the program, students are placed on an internship according to their academic interest ranging from global carbon monitoring to entomology. Program Director, Dr. Suzanne Kolb, leads the program and is assisted by local professors, research scientists, graduate students, and activists, who provide expertise on current environmental issues facing each region. Additional Information: Portuguese language courses and accommodations in homestays, small hotels, guest houses, and filed station dormitories. Application deadline: March 30. Dates: Fall (September – December) Cost: Contact AEA (aea@antioch.edu) for updated cost information. Contact: Kelly Brannan Trail, Assistant Director, Antioch Education Abroad, Antioch University, 150 E. South College St., Yellow Springs, OH 45387 Tel: (937) 769-1015 or (800) 874-7986 Email: aea@antioch.edu Website: aea.antioch.edu/brazil

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Amizade Global Service-Learning
Social Marketing In Santarem, Brazil
Amizade efforts have led to or supported the completion of numerous community initiatives, including the development of classrooms, the provision of health care, and educational programs to empower street children. In this summer course students will work with Fundação Esperança, a Brazilian nonprofit organization that has been providing health and education to the inhabitants of the Amazon for over 30 years. The health clinic depends on volunteer dentists and physicians to provide care for the needy people of the Amazon. Amizade students in this summer course will be working with Fundação Esperança public relations and marketing team, using the principles of business and social marketing networks to reach out to the local communities.
Healthcare, the Environment and Public Policy In Brazil
Amizade efforts have led to or supported the completion of numerous community initiatives, including the development of classrooms, the provision of health care, and educational programs to empower street children in Santarem, Brazil. You'll see a beautiful tropical region in one of the strongest emerging economies in the world. You'll improve your Portuguese, and you'll learn about public health and the environment through a combination of thought-provoking and public-serving academic and applied experiences. You'll take part in the vibrant and exciting Brazilian environment. And you'll have home stay accommodations with local families to allow for deeper language learning and understanding about local life and culture.
Indigenous Politics, Service, and Development in the Andes
Spend a semester living with a family in Cochabamba, Bolivia; study Spanish and contemporary Latin American history and politics; serve 12+ hours per week for a local nonprofitorganization; and explore the country and culture through field trips and community events. You will have opportunities to experience both the urban and rural aspects of the region with field trips and excursions. Your homestay accommodations with local families will allow for deeper language learning and understanding about local life and culture. You'll improve your Spanish, and you'll learn about regional civil society from a Bolivian Professor with substantial related academic and professional experience. You'll enjoy Cochabamba's famously pleasant and sunny environment, where residents regularly gather under palms to discuss politics and life in plazas ringed by sixteenth century Spanish buildings.

Visit: amizade.org

The Center for Global Education
French Language Study in the Caribbean
Spend your winter break away from the cold and learn French in the Caribbean! Need we say more? This program offers introductory French credit and is therefore open to all undergraduate and graduate students, including the general public. Guadeloupe is located in the lower Antilles of the Caribbean. It is a center of Creole culture, which is a lively blend of French and African influences....

Contact: tel. 703.993.2154, kstoy@gmu.edu, globaled.gmu.edu/programs/facultyled/winterstudy/guadeloupe.html

George Mason University—Study Abroad Programs
Peru and Ecuador: Empires of the Sun (Inca and Spanish Empires)
“Travel is not about finding something.It’s about getting lost—that is, it is about losing yourself in a place and a moment.” This course explores one of those moments, the intersection of three empires in the southern continent of the New World. Visit Peru and Ecuador, staying the night at Machu Picchu.

Contact: gseiler2@gmu.edu, globaled.gmu.edu

Institute for Central American Development Studies c/o ICADS,
Study Abroad / Internship Programs for Social Justice - Costa Rica & Nicaragua
Over 80 Social Justice oriented service learning opportunities in two countries. Offered in Spring and fall semesters as well as summer.  Explore the socio-political and economic realities that profoundly affect Central and Latin America today. The program is progressive and aimed at students who wish to work on social justice issues and on behalf of the poor, women, and the oppressed. Gain experience and fluency while working for others in health clinics, schools, feeding centers, sustainable development orgs., as well as fair trade, women’s and agricultural cooperatives. Spring/fall Semester Program - 15 credits.  Summer Program - non-credit, only Costa Rica.
ICADS Summer Internship Program – Costa Rica
This ten-week, non-credit summer study program includes three weeks of Spanish language training, as well as academic lectures and field visits highlighting socio/political, cultural, and environmental issues. During phase two of the program, students have the opportunity to choose among 50 different individual internship sites in Costa Rica. The aim of this program is to integrate the student as fully as possible into a Costa Rican community, to become as fluent as possible in Spanish, and to make a lasting contribution to an organization and/or community where s/he works and learns. Some Spanish required.
ICADS Field Course in Resource Management and Sustainable Development
The Institute for Central American Development Studies, (ICADS) offers an interdisciplinary semester program in Costa Rica focusing on development from ecological, socio-economic perspectives. Semester includes: 4 weeks of intensive Spanish and social issues, 5 weeks in the field in managed and natural ecosystems learning methodologies of field research in social and natural sciences (banana transnationals, traditional agriculture, community cooperatives; cloud forest and watershed management); 5 weeks of independent research - working in rural communities. Fall and spring semesters with academic credit.

Contact: Institute for Central American Development Studies c/o ICADS, Dept. 826, P.O. Box 025216, Miami, Florida 33102-5216; info@icads.org; www.icads.org.

Living Routes
Peru: Ecology, Community and Indigenous Spirituality in the High Amazon
Journey to Peru’s Andean-Amazon region to learn firsthand from local communities living lightly and in harmony with their local environment. Experience indigenous Quechua principles of cultural autonomy and respect of ancient practices that ‘talk back’ to global systems of capitalism and politics and assert the wisdom of a worldview that values the ‘other-than-human’ living world of plants, animals and spiritual energies. Build skills in working effectively with peers and contribute to the regeneration of local communities through service learning projects promoting agricultural biodiversity, sustainable environmental action, and right livelihood.

Contact: Director of Admissions, 284 N. Pleasant Street, Suite 1, Amherst, MA 01002 USA; (888) 515-7333; www.livingroutes.org.

Penn-in-Buenos Aires
For students interested in Latin American studies, this program in the bustling and cosmopolitan Buenos Aires will offer courses in Spanish, Latin American culture, and contemporary Argentinean literature. Students will live with local familites.

Visit: www.upenn.edu/summer/abroad

Spanish, Ecology, Latin American Studies in Heredia and Puntarenas, Costa Rica
Both locations offer intensive language studies which fulfill up to 2 years of university language Spanish requirements in only 1 semester or 8-week summer program in Heredia. Additional courses offered in political science, history, biology, teacher ed., business, literature, etc. Program organized week-long and weekend field trips, homestays, and many local university activities.
Spanish and Latin American Studies in Santiago, Chile
Santiago program offers intensive language studies fulfilling up to 2 years of university Spanish requirements in only 1 semester at one of Chile's finest private universities. Additional courses in literature, business, history, political science, drama, and dance, etc. Week long program-oriented field trips to the north and south of Chile, homestays available, and many university activities included.

Contact: University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC), Univ. of Nevada, USAC 323, Reno, NV 89557-0093; usac@unr.edu, usac.unr.edu.