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Cuba: Havana Enclave -
Academics
Prerequisites
Students are required to have a 3.0 GPA
and at least one-year of college-level Spanish language
class or the equivalent.
Courses
As a Cuba: Havana Enclave student, you earn a full
semester of AU credit. Program participants are enrolled
in four courses arranged for AU students by the University
of Havana. Upon satisfactory completion of the program,
students will have earned a total of 17 credits.
Each of the three content
courses listed below are taught by faculty selected
jointly by AU and the University of Havana. While
the courses are designed to be taught in English,
if all program participants are at an advanced level
of Spanish proficiency, content courses may instead
be taught in Spanish. Students will be encouraged
to communicate with the professors and the program’s
resident director at their own level of Spanish proficiency.
- Cuban Contemporary Culture (6 credits)
- History of Cuba: The Evolution of Cuban Nationalism
(5 credits)
- The International Relations of Cuba 1989-2004
(3 credits)
Additionally, all students will be required to take
a Spanish language course (3 credits) provided by the
University of Havana. A placement test, administered
by the University of Havana faculty, will be taken upon
arrival and will determine proficiency level placement.
Students with advanced Spanish proficiency, having
completed a minimum of 6 semesters of college-level
Spanish or the equivalent thereof, may be permitted
to substitute one direct enrollment course at the
University of Havana, in the place of one of the four
content courses listed above. Direct enrollment courses
may be selected from the departmental (facultades)
course offerings, and will be taken in Spanish alongside
Cuban students.
NOTE: Starting in the Spring 2008 semester, we hope
to offer one core course taught in the Spanish language
for students with advanced Spanish skills. The course
will be a seminar type course that explores the fundamentals
of Cuba. There will be seven main areas of study,
among others, Cuban Economics, Women Studies, Social
Movements, etc. More details will be available later
on in the Fall 2007 semester.
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