Study Abroad in Mexico
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Study Abroad Course Opportunities

Summer 2008


Mexico City, Mexico

 Architecture – Corey Saft & Kari Smith

Architecture 471G (Field Drawing)

Architecture 580 (Advanced Design Media)

Remote Urbanism - research methods in multiple media to analyze and study the varieties of the urban condition. Research and design for 3 weeks in Lafayette and 3 weeks in Mexico City. Sketchbooks/portfolios will be submitted upon return to Lafayette.

Architecture 474G (Field Theory)

Mestizo Modernism: Theories, histories and manifestos of the Americas. Students will read and research on issues of the Americas and speculate on the influence and relationships to contemporary architecture and urbanism. Discussions will take place on actual and representative built sites related to these histories and theories.

 

English - Allen C. Jones

English 360 (Writing the Urban in Mexcio City)

In this course we will be exploring the largest city in the world and writing about our experiences. With the biggest bull ring in the world, a carnival of opposing architectures, and over 200,00 people who speak indigenous languages, Mexico City is a place where the senses are challenged. Students will keep a journal of their experiences as well as work on a central creative piece (nonfiction, fiction, drama, or poetry). We will read renegades like Jack Kerouac who write about the city from an outsider perspective, and local authors such as Octavio Paz and Gabriel Garcia Marquez (both Nobel laureates) who write from an insider position. Trips outside the city to places like the floating gardens of Xochimilco and Guanajuato will serve to broaden our experience of the city and its division from the countryside around it.

English 223 (Introduction to CW: Emphasis on Translation and Travel Writing)

From experienced writers to first-time writers, this class will help use different genres to write about place. We will talk about travel writing as a genre and how it fits into the traditional poetry-drama-fiction view of creative writing. We will also explore the possibilities of translation, and how living in a place can provide resources for the writer that are out of reach for the armchair traveler. No knowledge of Spanish is required as we will be comparing opposing translations and how they work as English texts.

 

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