Spanish Studies in Antigua and Guatemala City, Guatemala
Summer Semester
DATES: May 11- June 3, 2009
PRICE: $2,000
Application Deadline: March 13 , 2009
This is a three-week Maymester course in the cities
of Antigua and Guatemala City, Guatemala. The
objective is to study Latin American intercultural
communication and provide an opportunity for
formal study and immersion in Spanish language.
Guatemala is an ideal location for such study because there were special provisions for intercultural
communication in the Guatemalan peace process
that started in 1996 and continue today. Among
the themes studied include: educational reform
for intercultural communication; multicultural
advertising; and how the peace accords have intended
to achieve reconciliation in Guatemala via specific
reforms and innovations in the country’s mass media
system (e.g. training of indigenous journalists, and
promoting the use of indigenous languages in the
media). Students will be provided with opportunities
to learn more about this central theme of the course
via field trips to Guatemalan media houses, research
assignments in Guatemalan libraries, and visiting
lectures by Guatemalan journalists, activists, scholars,
politicians, government officials, and representatives
of international organizations working to advance the
peace process in Guatemala.
For more information, contact:
Dr. Mark D. Alleyne,
Associate Professor,
Georgia State University,
Department of Communication,
P.O. Box 4000,
Atlanta GA 30302-4000
Tel.: 404/413-5673
E-mail: malleyne@gsu.edu