YUCATAN AND MEXICAN CULTURE

Winter Interim: December 26, 2023 to January 11, 2024
Prerequisite: Must have completed SPAN 330

MEX 360 is designed to give students a full immersion experience.  Students will live with a Mexican family and have their three meals a day with them.  Monday through Friday the students will have class 9:00 am- 12:00. The course is structured like a conversation class. Each student will be assigned different cultural readings and will present on their readings every day and direct discussion on their topics. There will also be grammar and vocabulary review. From 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm students will prepare their presentations for the next day and then head home for the midday meal with their families. In the afternoons and weekend students will visit cities, Mayan ruins, art and history museums, take a Mexican cooking class, and much more.  The time on the Yucatan Peninsula culminates with a tour of the ancient city of Chichen Itza, one of the Seven Wonders of the World and ends with the last two days in Playa del Carmen on the Caribbean Sea. In this course students will further develop their speaking and aural comprehension skills as well as increase their vocabulary and grammar through daily reading and writing assignments.