Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

The participants of this course will study the origins of the inequality, racial prejudice, and poverty that is a reality for so many people in Latin America and the Caribbean today. They will explore the ancient African traditions that strongly exist currently, such as: Music, clothing, and religious beliefs (like voodoo). This course will also offer a global perspective of the phenomenon of slavery from the beginning to the abolition of such a "peculiar institution".