Special Education in Mexico

Students will study the current special education system in Mexico, be provided and will teach in publicly funded school programs for students with disabilities with the support of locally interpreters. Before departure students will prepare lesson plans and all teaching materials necessary to implement their lesson plans in Spanish. 

Visual Journalism

This course combines intensely practical sessions covering the skills and techniques necessary for producing broadcast standard visual journalism with discussion and debate on the shifting tectonic plates in the industry. Students will hear from – and be able to question - leading figures from major TV and online news organisations and they will have the opportunity to spend time in the TV News studios at the headquarters of the BBC. By the end of the course, they will have created their own TV programme.

Second Year Spanish – Composition

This intensive course is part of a complementary three-class curriculum including Grammar A2 and Conversation A2, which together cover the second year of Spanish (SPAN 201-202-203). In this writing course the students of intermediate level produce different types of texts, such as: descriptive, narrative, argumentative and expository in situations of daily and academic use.

Second Year Spanish – Conversation

This intensive course is part of a three-class complementary curriculum including Writing A2 and Grammar A2, which together cover the second Spanish year (SPAN 201-202-203). In this course students practice intermediate grammar of Spanish with fun oral dynamics so that students develop their production more, have confidence speaking in everyday situations.

Spanish History

This course is offered at the 2nd year Spanish (A2) level. It examines the history of Spain from the Paleolithic to the present, focusing on the main political, social, economic and cultural transformations and the different historical moments that forms the basis of Spain.

Cultural Landscape Documentation and Analysis

International concern for significant cultural landscapes has expanded in recent years. This course teaches the principles, methods and tools of cultural landscape documentation and analysis, engaging a number of sites in Beijing and Hangzhou for the theoretical and practical application of cultural landscape principles. The focus is on the interaction of cultural and natural systems, and analyzing the manner in which human activity has shaped significant heritage landscapes.