Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic
A Real World Learning Experience: Acquiring Language and Culture in the Dominican Republic

Conversational Spanish Students engage in increasing their knowledge of Spanish through a conversational Spanish course.  The course seeks to develop students’ abilities in oral Spanish communication, widen their vocabulary, and teach them aspects of Dominican culture.

Students will receive three (3) undergraduate credits from PUCMM.  The class will be taught by a professor from PUCMM.

St. John’s Course Offerings:
In addition to the Spanish conversation course, students also have the opportunity to take courses through St. John’s School of Education and receive up to six (6) graduate credits for any of the following TESOL course offerings:

 EDU 9002: Psychology and Sociology of Language and Bilingualism
 EDU 9006: Human Development in Cross-Cultural Perspective
 EDU 9013: Research in Language, Culture and Communication

Students who wish to take one or two of these classes must register and make payment of St. John’s tuition/fees in addition to all other costs incurred by the Study Abroad Program.

Dates
  TBA (pre-departure orientation at St. John’s)
  TBA (overseas phase in Santiago, The Dominican Republic)
  TBA (post-seminar at St. John’s)

Project Director:
Dr. Yvonne Pratt-Johnson
Associate Professor
The School of Education
Sullivan Hall, Room 407
(718) 990-2645
prattjoy@stjohns.edu