This blog post is a follow-up to a post from last semester about the Honduras Water Project. This course, which provides students the chance to see how learning can have real life applications, is an extremely unique opportunity for students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The two-semester long course is supported by the College of Engineering and […]
Tag: Latin America
“The Fairer Sex” Writes
What writers would you highlight to commemorate Women’s History Month? Comment below! March is Women’s History Month and an appropriate time to highlight some of the women’s voices that represent world literature. After all, American Hillary Clinton, who is an author of five books, is running for the U.S. presidency, Nigerian Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who […]
The Honduras Water Project
The University of Illinois provides its students with many opportunities to learn about different countries and cultures, engage in international work and also learn through service-learning. One exciting opportunity for students at UIUC is a course that has been offered for the past 3 years. Supported by the College of Engineering, the Honduras Water Project gives students […]
A Journey to Latin America through Films
As valuable as it is to study other countries’ histories and contemporary cultures through classes, academic books, and papers, it is equally important to approach them through their people’s own voices. This is always a critical task for building fair and inclusive views of the world. And there are a lot of voices still to […]
“The Organic Globalizer: Hip Hop, Political Development, and Movement Culture”
“The Organic Globalizer: Hip Hop, Political Development, and Movement Culture,” edited by Christopher Malone and George Martinez, Jr., is a compilation of essays that explore the ways in which hip hop culture serves as an “organic globalizer.” In the opening chapter, Malone and Martinez define organic globalizer as a movement which “builds a network of […]