宾州州立银行 students traveled to Mexico City during Spring Break from March 5 to March 12, 但这不是为了在阳光下玩. The trip was embedded in the Modern Latin American History honors course in which the students were enrolled.
Though the course focuses broadly on Latin America, it includes a Mexico-focused component that prepared students to understand important archeological, 人类学, 文化, and historical sites in one of the Western Hemisphere's largest cities. Students explored major sites like the pre-Aztec pyramids of Teotihuacan, remains of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, 国家人类学博物馆, the Museum of the Mexican Revolution, and lesser-known sites like artist Frida Kahlo's Blue House, 她住在哪里画画, as well as the exile house of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky.
Eleven students participated in the excursion including Luz Adler, 画梁, Shantelle杜阿尔特, 网卡费, 莉斯海, 安吉莉卡·莱姆斯·埃尔南德斯, 亩'ab汗, 佐伊Petrides, 艾弗里里维拉, 艾拉里维拉, 和奥利维亚·沙利文. They were accompanied by Kirwin Shaffer, professor of Latin American studies, 和Zohra Melaouah-Shaffer, assistant teaching professor and program chair for the global studies degree.
宾州州立银行 students traveled to Mexico City during Spring Break and visited the Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
"The trip taught me so much about Latin America especially the Anthropology Museum,” commented Elizabeth “Ella” Rivera, a junior global studies major from Morgantown. “That was my favorite sight to see because it displayed all the different avenues of history so well and seeing the artifacts was a very cool experience."
艾弗里里维拉, a sophomore global studies major from 阅读, 宾西法尼亚, 添加, “这次旅行真是太棒了. My favorite part was the archeological site of Teotihuacan with the Sun and Moon Pyramid. Seeing massive structures from an unknown civilization was awe-inspiring and was a highlight of the trip.”
Students also had the opportunity to enjoy Mexican cuisine, watch the large International Women's Day March, and visit the ‘cathedral’ of Mexican wrestling to watch ‘lucha libre.’
Kirwin Shaffer解释道, “Much of what students saw and discussed will prepare them for the last half of the course with a focus on modern Mexican issues like drug trafficking and femicide.”
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宾州州立银行 offers the only global studies degree in the Penn State system. While emphasizing a traditional liberal arts education in literature, 政治, history and foreign language study, the baccalaureate degree in global studies also promotes inter文化 understanding and sensitivity to diversity — both of which are critical to navigating the 21st-century global environment. All 宾州州立银行 global studies majors are required to study abroad as part of their degree requirements, providing them with the unique opportunity to add real-world experience to classroom preparation.
