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Carthage will offer a J-Term study tour to Costa Rica in January 2020. Learn more about the 2022 J-Term study tour: Modern Language Study in Costa Rica with Professor Pascal Rollet during an information session from 5 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 30, on Zoom.

Attend the session

The study tour is a unique opportunity to learn or practice Spanish in an immersion setting:

Study Spanish for three weeks in Sámara, Costa Rica, live in a homestay with a Costa Rican family and on week-ends, visit the Arenal volcano, the Monte Verde cloud forest reserve and the Rincón de la Vieja national park. In Sámara, you will live in a small village by the Pacific Ocean and stay with a local family with whom you will interact and have breakfast and dinner every day. You will take classes of Spanish for four hours (alternating daily morning and afternoon) and participate in other activities organized by the school, including cooking, dance classes, yoga and more.

The study tour is geared towards students of Spanish at any level: you will take a placement exam and be placed in a small class with no more than six students total, taking Spanish classes with experienced Costa Rican teachers. Prof. Rollet, a Carthage professor of Spanish who has studied in Sámara at the Intercultura school, will be on the premises to lead, supervise and guide you. He will meet with you as a class every other day during the week for one hour to discuss your written observations and the reading of our text on the culture of Costa Rica.

Two weekends will be devoted to touring with the group in the country’s national parks. No Spanish is required prior to coming on this language and cultural study tour and classes will be offered from beginners to advanced. While you cannot receive credit for a full Carthage language course, up to two credits of conversation can be applied towards the completion of the minor for students who have passed or placed beyond Spanish 2020 before Jan. 2020. A contract will be drafted and signed before departure.

View more details about the study tour to Costa Rica.

SPONSORING DEPARTMENT, OFFICE, OR ORGANIZATION:

Modern Languages Department

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Pascal Rollet prollet@carthage.edu