elcome to the Latin American Studies Program (LASP), a semester long study-abroad program of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities based in San José, Costa Rica.
As you probably know, LASP is designed for Christian students who are learning to integrate their faith and values with new knowledge and experience within the Latin American context. This is encouraged each semester in student participants via learning, living, serving and traveling while they are at LASP. If you'd like to know more about this program please see >>
This particular website is dedicated to participants of LASP and their friends and family who want to be kept in the loop about the various things going on during this time abroad. We encourage you to check out our monthly updates with different photos and write-ups from current LASPers.
Over the course of their four months at LASP, students spend 4 weeks studying Spanish intensively at a language institute. During that time they will also be attending classes 2-3 times a week as part of LASP's Core Seminar. After the first month the students leave to spend two weeks in Nicaragua where they interact with different speakers who talk about the issues of that country and spend a week living with a host family - learning from the people themselves.
They return to Costa Rica to finish up this Core part of their semester. The students then study in one of four concentrations: International Business (Fall), Environmental Science (Spring), Advanced Language & Literature, or Latin American Studies. The semester ends with a two week trip to Guatemala. We will keep you up-to-date throughout the semester, sharing with you photos and reflections from the students' time here. Stay tuned.
 
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