Experience Latin America II, a collaborative offering by Cornell and Michigan State universities, combines a two-week living laboratory experience in Chiapas, Mexico with a subsequent course agenda of analysis, synthesis, and video-conferenced reporting. The field-study component provides dynamic opportunity to observe the rich living cultures, environments, ecologies, rural and urban communities, and development issues in Chiapas.

Professors:
       Debra Castillo, Cecelia Lawless, Lilia Fernández, and Terry Tucker (Cornell) and Robert Blake, Michael Kaplowitz and Jonas Zoninsein (Michigan State)

 

 

 

 

An optional 1-credit discussion course in Spanish complements IARD/LAT A 6010. Interested Cornell students register for LAT A 3020.

 

 

Read one student's experience in the 2009 field course.

 

 

"Experience Latin America was exactly the kind of course that I think made my Cornell education most worthwhile, and the kind of class I would design for myself--hands-on, interdisciplinary, and international. I wanted you to know how important your class was to me, and how much I appreciate the thought and effort that went into its creation."

--Madeline Snider, Government, Class of 2009