USM Students Fly to Havana
Eighteen students from the University of Southern Maine will
be boarding a van in Portland at 3 a.m. on Sunday, June 23
to begin their summer adventure in Havana, Cuba. They are
enrolled in a summer course, "Cuba: An Island Nation," that
will be led by USM professors Henry Amoroso and Sandra Wachholz.
The course is designed to expose students to the university
structure of Cuba. Classes will be held on the University
of Havana campus along with field trips to support the classroom
experience.
The students come from a broad range of undergraduate majors
including Spanish, international relations, criminology, sociology,
and history. There are members of the public who will audit
the course and graduate students participating as well.
During the course, developed for a North American audience,
students will be introduced to Cuba's educational policy which
has produced one of the highest literacy rates in the Caribbean;
a medical structure that provides citizens with one of the
lowest infant mortality rates in the world; and a country
with a distinct culture.
Editor's Note: To arrange interviews with students during
the course, Henry Amoroso can be reached from June 24 until
July 6 at the Hotel Colina (phone: 011 (537) 33-4071, fax:
011 (537) 33-4104). He will be able to receive e-mail at amoroso@usm.maine.edu
or amorosojr@yahoo.com.
To view excerpts from a journal Amoroso kept while visiting
Cuba a year ago see www.usm.maine.edu/~amoroso/courses/text.html
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