Advanced Academic Writing and Peruvian Culture (Mandatory)

This class helps participants reach and perfect competence at the advanced level in Spanish language, with an emphasis on oral and written skills on both formal and informal levels. The class also emphasizes vocabulary and pronunciation. Discussions, weekly essays that focus in part on Peruvian and Latin American issues will be utilized. 3 credits.

Peruvian Social Reality (Mandatory) 

The purpose of this course is to help students reach a basic understanding of Peruvian social reality, identifying the major problems and conflicts, clarifying the relationship of the present situation in Peru to the most important social processes. While the course does not propose to offer a detailed analysis of specific issues, it does present the principal economic, social and political problems of the country in terms of an overall analytical perspective. The course will focus on an individual research project based on the experience of each student in an NGO, which focuses upon a specific social problem in the Peruvian context. 4 credits.