Eight URock students in the Yucatan for spring break travel course

Tue, 03/19/2019 - 10:15am

ROCKLAND — Eight students enrolled at UMA Rockland are traveling to the Yucatan from March 14 to 23 as part of a university travel course for college credit.

Wendi Luther, Alison Weaver, Dasha Palmer, Angella Hunt, Allina Diaz, Crystal Benner, Danelle Kruger, and Eli Ranquistare are taking advantage of the nine credit integrated online/onsite/travel course module as an opportunity to study three disciplines, each with a lens on the Yucatan and Latin America.

Faculty use the Yucatan as a case study, integrating humanities, photography, and literature with a study trip to Valladolid, according to URock, in a news release.

The integrated curriculum includes:

ART 109 - Photographic Design and Digital Discovery

HUM 389 - Special Topics: Beyond Borders: The Yucatan

ENG 375 - Contemporary Latin American Literature

These courses satisfy art, humanities and English electives in any degree program giving students an opportunity to satisfy general education requirements in an adventurous way.

Integrated travel courses have become a reliable spring semester option at the University of Maine at Augusta Rockland Center.

For more information on all programming at UMA Rockland, contact the center at 596-6906 or visit www.uma.edu/rockland.