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ProMexico Semester Courses and Credits
The Semester in Mexico courses provide a balance of classroom and field instruction. Examples of field studies include:
- Mexico City field trip to visit museums and the National Museum of Anthropology
- Field visit to the state of Veracruz to compare patterns of history, society, and development with those of Oaxaca
- Trip through the southern mountains of Oaxaca to the Pacific coast, in an explicit comparison with the themes and issues examined in the trip to Veracruz
- Site visits to rural communities to compare patterns of social service, resource use, household economics, and other topics with what we have seen in urban settings
Courses and Credits
Semester in Mexico students are enrolled at Jacksonville University in the core curriculum for 16 credits. Jacksonville University accredits the program and provides transcripts upon successful completion.
Courses are delivered in collaboration with the Universidad Vasconcelos in Oaxaca. ProMexico students will have the opportunity to take a variety of courses offered through the Universidad Vasconcelos, including communications, fine arts, political science, international studies and more.
Recommended courses include:
Courses are delivered in collaboration with the Universidad Vasconcelos in Oaxaca. ProMexico students will have the opportunity to take a variety of courses offered through the Universidad Vasconcelos, including communications, fine arts, political science, international studies and more.
Recommended courses include:
INTERMEDIATE OR ADVANCED SPANISH
This course begins with a thorough written and oral Spanish evaluation, placing each student with other students of his or her level.
This course includes conversation, reading, and discussion of texts. Private and small classes emphasize enrichment of vocabulary for daily conversational needs as well as more traditional instruction concentrating on grammatical structures.
MEXICAN STATE AND SOCIETY
This course includes conversation, reading, and discussion of texts. Private and small classes emphasize enrichment of vocabulary for daily conversational needs as well as more traditional instruction concentrating on grammatical structures.
MEXICAN STATE AND SOCIETY
Analyze the complex formation of Mexican society by learning about the ancient civilizations, the arrival of the Spaniards, Independence and the Mexican Revolution. The class ends with the study of the modern Mexico state.
CONTEMPORARY WORLD HISTORY
Gain the general knowledge of the human society from capitalism up until modern times. This class takes into account the correlations of economic, political and other factors.
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
Analyze the politics that establish the relations between the principal actors in the international system (states, international organizations, and non-government organizations). Evaluate and problem-solve the influences that these organizations have on international relations and organizations, the emerging norms, and the subcategories of structure of international organizations.
HUMAN, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
Learn the distinct spatial analysis in their various scales, which go from local to global, going national with comparing strong contrasting regions. The student will be able to study the society-space relations, in the dimensions of economics, political, and human, with an emphasis on territories as the object of analysis.SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Students will learn the basic concepts of sustainable development and will identify and analyze the fundamental dimensions in an environmental, political, economical, and social contexts, including topics in environmental legislation, quality of life, and political planning using sustainable development.LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Study the historical, social, economic, and political processes of the formation of Latin America and the Caribbean, from its beginning stages up until recent events. Students will learn the basic fundamentals of complex internal and external determinations of development, along with the reality of these nations.NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS
Analyze the concept of NGOs to understand the context of civil society on an international, national, state and local level. Recognize the role of an NGO in a social, political and economic context. Evaluate the impact of their interventions, and their potentials, their actions, and repercussions. CULTURE AND INTERNATIONAL TOURISM
Analyze the theoretical frames of two central dimensions of reality to explain the economy of Mexico and the process of identity formation of Mexico: culture and tourism. The focus of these topics provides the students the fundamental theoretical tools to explore the specific treatment of both themes in diverse regions of the world.INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
Analyze the principal theory elements that explain the phenomenon of international immigration. The course will cover the beginning of humanity up to the flow of contemporary tourism. Deep investigation will occur in different topics of migration, such as xenophobia.MEXICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM
Students will identify the groups of power from the 19th century, the relationship between the governed and the governors, the process of consensus and the legislation of political power. Students will analyze the formation of the society-state actors and the political strongholds.COLLECTIVE ACTION AND MOVEMENT THEORIES
Students will understand the distinct focused theories of social movements in order to study the large phenomena of collective actions in the first half of the 20th century, as historical circumstances produced them.OAXACA POLITICAL SYSTEM
Students will be able to understand the various stages, stable and crisis periods, in the development of the Oaxaca Political System from the second half of the 19th century until present time.HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN MEXICO
Learn the main ideological and political debates of education, especially the laymen, free, and obligatory education. And relate the historical definition of these debates to the philosophical and legal principles of the present education system.JOURNALISM
Explore the technique of the journalism genre of the short informative: informative note and interview.PHOTOGRAPHY I & II
Learn the elements of the camera and understand the process of light in taking photography. Topics include the visualization and the analysis of the language of the image. Students also learn about photography's historical development.Prerequisites
Completion of one year of university studies and one semester of university level Spanish
Good academic standing at your home university
A positive attitude and a will to help
Semester Credits: 16
Total class hours: 256
Project hours: 56
Average class hours per credit: 16
Accreditation: Jacksonville University
Language of Instruction: Spanish with English support
Please meet with your study abroad advisor prior to the program to ensure credits transfer appropriately
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