Denison University Intensive Summer Program
Culture, Gender and Society in Chile and Latin America:
I. Program Description
Social, Cultural and Political Issues in Contemporary Chile and Andean Region Project is sponsored by the Gender and Social Studies Program (Progenero), which will act as host for international students. The Program, which started in 1996, is part of Universidad de Humanismo Cristiano (UAHC), one of the most prestigious centers for higher learning in the nation.
The UAHC has a faculty body of around 85 full-time professors, and more than 3,500 undergraduate students. The University has a main library which is computer networked with Alexandria. UAHC is committed to critical thinking and social compromise and emphasizes human rights, gender, multiculturalism, poverty and other current social and political issues in Chile and Latin America.
Progenero offers undergraduate courses dealing with the representation and relevance of gender perspectives within the multicultural political context of Latin America. The Program represents a new territory where scholarly rigor meets the challenges of new civil sensibilities expressed through formal and alternative avenues of knowledge. Progenero fosters and maintains collaborative work with a wide variety of community and non-governmental organizations.
The Culture, Gender and Society Program offers for international students intensive language and culture courses with a special focus on gender relations, social and cultural movements and new political groups in contemporary Chile.
Our program can accomodate students who have completed a third semester of Spanish at the college level. Lower level students will have bilingual professors so that more complex concepts can be explained in English. Initially these students will have readings in English so that all students can form a common conceptual foundation.
II. Intensive Summer Program
Period: June 25 - August 2, 2012
Course Offerings (STUDENTS MUST TAKE ALL COURSES)
Intensive Language Course I, II
MWR 9:00 - 11:00
Chilean and Latino Cinema and Documentary
MW 11:30 - 1:00
Gender and Social Reality in Contemporary Chile
TR 11:30 - 1:00
Chilean Art, Culture and Literature
TR 2:30 - 4:00
Cultural Activities
Guided Field Trips: Buenos Aires, Valparaiso, San Pedro de Atacama
Visits to Museums: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Museo Precolombino, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Galerías de Arte, Human Rights Memorial.
Last week in Buenos Aires, leaving Chile on the 2nd. Stay with host families.
III. Program cost
The total cost of the program per student is $4,508.00 per student. This includes tuition, room and board, field trips to various cities and museums, transfer of six Denison credits. You should add airlines tickets (approx. $1240.00 depending on when you book it). IV. Contact Information V. Deadlines $100 deposit, March 26, 2012 Payment of program cost, April 30, 2012. Make checks payable to Denison University.
Program Director:
Prof. Bernardita Llanos
x 6700
llanos@denison.edu
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