Events
Date: Thursday, November 14
Time: 12:00 - 12:50
Location: KMC 605
*Students can also join this session remotely. For more info please contact hfis2@pdx.edu
Oaxaca is a vibrant, energetic, and rich tapestry of urban and rural living in the southern part of Mexico. Oaxaca’s culture is bountiful: 16 indigenous languages, a wide range of arts and crafts, traditional food dishes with international fame, and a unique political system known as “usos y costumbres” (customs and traditions). Oaxaca offers a perfect canvas from which to look at community development and consider if programs, organizations, and businesses are playing a role in keeping residents in their rural settings rather than migrating north to the United States.
Students will visit 8-10 communities in the two-week trip, each with its own culture, art and food specialties, and landscape. Mornings to early afternoon will find us visiting a community, talking and working with an organization, and experiencing and observing community development programs. Afternoons will be spent engaging and conversing with the student’s homestay family enjoying a homemade Oaxacan meal, followed by Spanish language and culture classes.
