Taxco, Mexico: Intensive Spanish

June 3 - July 23, 2008

The University of Maryland System, (UMS) in collaboration with the Centro de Enseñanza para Extranjeros (CEPE) of the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM), offers an intensive Spanish language program in Taxco, Mexico, that is open to university students as well as to teachers of Spanish. Applicants should have completed minimum elementary Spanish.

Taxco

Taxco de Alarcón, one of Mexico's most famous silver cities, lies three hours south of Mexico City near the new highway to Acapulco. Set in the side of a mountain at an elevation of 5,300 feet, Taxco is in a strikingly beautiful location. The CEPE campus is located at the Hacienda El Chorrillo, a refurbished colonial estate with classrooms, a library, theater gardens, swimming pool, and cafe, only ten minutes from the center of Taxco.

Accommodations

Participants will stay in a guest house with a family and will have the option to stay in a single or double room. Staying in a guest house will provide students with the opportunity to learn about Mexican society and practice the language regularly. Participants will pay the family directly.