 Educational Travel, Tours, and Learning Vacations in Mexico
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If you do not see the program you want, look under Worldwide for Adult Education programs located in several different regions.
Contact the program directors to confirm costs, dates, and other details (Disclaimer).
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Cemanahuac Educational Community
Trips are highly educational, with college credit (graduate and undergraduate) available. Countries include Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. Focus areas include history, anthropology, archaeology, social issues, cooking and cuisine, and popular and folk art. Previous groups include teachers, social workers, artists, senior citizens, chefs, museum members, alumni groups, and other adult participants. Each trip individually planned.
Guitar Vacation Retreats
A one-week guitar intensive in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, designed for adults of all ages, using the music of Mexico as the basis for instruction. The program is designed for students of all levels of ability and experience. Our mission is to give students the tools they need to play music with other people, as well as to immerse students in the culture and music of southern Mexico.
Contact: info@guitar-vacation-retreats.com, www.guitar-vacation-retreats.com
Intensive Spanish in Yucatan
Centro de Idiomas del Sureste, A.C. (CIS), founded in 1974, offers 3-5 hours per day of intensive conversational Spanish classes with native-speaking, university-trained professors. Maximum 6 students per group, average 3. Program includes beginner courses to very advanced with related field trips and recommended optional homestay. Also special classes in business, legal, medical vocabulary, or Mayan studies.
Institute of Modern Spanish/Instituto de Español Moderno
Spanish language & Mexican cultural immersion. Located in the doorway to the Mayan culture and weekend beach excursion, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico is home to the Institute of Modern Spanish since 1995. Spanish language immersion programs with unique integrated lessons. Full immersion homestays.
Contact: 4merida@modernspanish.com, www.modernspanish.com.
Live the Language
Univ. of California, San Diego, Extension offers short-term, affordable language immersion programs for adults throughout the year. Spend a weekend or week in Ensenada or 2 or 5 weeks in Guadalajara. Carefully selected host families complement classroom instruction to create a complete immersion experience. UCSD Extension credit available.
Mar de Jade Ocean-front Center, Chacala, Nayarit
Celebrating our 20th year as a center for responsible tourism, we are located in the fishing village of Chacala on its beautiful beach north of Puerto Vallarta. For 15-years, our volunteer/study program has been offering opportunities to guests to learn Spanish and put it to use in rural community volunteer projects, including a medical clinic, an after school program for children, a community kitchen and garden project, ESL classes, and house construction. Guests gain insight into local culture through volunteering. Surrounded by lush jungle with the warm, clear Pacific at our door, they enjoy swimming, surfing, hiking, horseback riding, snorkeling, kayaking, whale-watching, and other excursions. Our calendar of retreats include yoga, meditation among others as well as our teen summer camp.
University of California, San Diego Extension
Building Bridges to Baja, Mexico
A three day trip to Baja California, Mexico where participants may work on projects such as painting a school, retro-fitting a building for special needs children, and planting a garden. Mexican officials provide a briefing on the history and culture of the area. Local Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) will present a program on the needs of the area and the issues they are addressing.
Contact: 9500 Gilman Drive, Dept 0170E, La Jolla, CA 92093; tel.: (858) 964-1011, (858) 964-1303; eloui@ucsd.edu, extension.ucsd.edu/cgvs.
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