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During the Cuban missile crisis Cliff Staten, professor of political science and international studies at IU Southeast, was in the 2nd grade. He remembers practicing safety drills at his school, where...
One small, post-communist island south of the border has permanently altered many study abroad students’ perspectives this past summer.
Cuba in Transition, a program offered for class credit, took 20 students from IU Southeast and Spring Hill College, along with three faculty members, on a three-week venture to an island whose culture is not well known in the U.S.
“The focus of the trip was to look at changes being made in Cuba,” Clifford Staten, professor of political science, said.
A new course — Cuba in Transition: A Study Abroad Program — will be taught and led by Cliff Staten, professor of political science and international studies, during summer session 1 in 2012.
The class is a six-week course from June 1 to 18, 2012 —three weeks in the classroom and three weeks traveling in Cuba. The group will also meet up with students from Spring Hill College.
Staten said 14 students have applied for the course and there are still openings. Interviews will be conducted in early October.
