Upcoming Study Abroad Opportunities in Ecuador
Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)
The TEFL program will run June 7-July 16 this summer. Students participate in a 5-day traveling orientation session, live with a host family in the colonial city of Cuenca, visit amazing cultural sites and study TEFL with American professors (while earning 6 LING credits from Ohio University). While in Cuenca, students take classes in the morning, have the afternoon free to study and work on lesson plans, and then teach in the evening. It is an intensive program, but at the end of a short 6 weeks, you will earn a TEFL certificate so you can teach abroad anywhere! At the end of the program, students travel to the beach to relax before returning to the U.S. The program application deadline is February 15. Scholarship application deadlines are February 1. It is absolutely fine to apply for scholarships before applying for the program. All current financial aid and scholarships apply (if normally available in the summer), and out-of-state students pay in-state tuition. The following are links to the website of the Office of Global Opportunities, where you can find more information.
Spanish Language and Culture
The Spanish Language and Culture program is a fall semester program running August 28-December 12, 2016. Students arrive to Quito, Ecuador and the following day embark on an incredible 7-day orientation trip, which includes staying at a lodge in the Amazon and visiting indigenous communities, as well as visiting a hacienda and standing on the actual Equator. After arriving to Cuenca, where the program is based, students live with host families, take 12-18 OHIO credit hours of Spanish courses, visit amazing national parks and participate in various cultural activities through the week (dance, cooking or pottery classes, yoga, volunteer work, museum visits…). There are also two optional trips during the semester: one to the Galápagos Islands and another to Machu Picchu in Peru! The program application deadline is February 15. Scholarship application deadlines are February 1. It is absolutely fine to apply for scholarships before applying for the program. All current financial aid and scholarships apply, and out-of-state students pay in-state tuition. The following are links to the website of the Office of Global Opportunities, where you can find more information.
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