Tuesday, July 17, 1962 Summer Session Kansan
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Fourth Junior Year Abroad Program Announced; Students Tell Experiences
Plans for the fourth "Junior Year Abroad in Costa Rica" program have been announced by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The program which starts in February and runs through November is held in collaboration with the University de Costa Rica.
TO BE ELIGIBLE a student must have completed at least three semesters of college work and have the equivalent of at least 16 hours of college work in Spanish.
The students will enroll in regular courses at the University of Costa Rica and the Resident Director will counsel them in their selection of courses and supervise individual projects where necessary. The credit earned will be counted as resident credit at KU.
In addition to study, there will be a number of trips and excursions. Travel to and from Costa Rica will be by air and all arrangements will be made by the administrators of the program.
THE TOTAL COST of the program is $1,400. This includes air travel from Kansas City to Washington, D.C. to attend orientation, lodging and meals in Washington, air travel from Washington to Costa Rica and back from Costa Rica to Kansas City, university fees, room and board in Costa Rica and the expenses of scheduled field trips. It does not cover personal expenses, shipment of baggage in excess of normal air travel allowances and incidentals.
Unlike some other universities in Latin America, the University of Costa Rica is a young institution and is consciously patterned on the model of its North American counterparts. The Faculty of Science and Letters is the equivalent of the college within a university in the United States.
A required program of General and Basic Studies in the first year is
comparable to the common freshman year found within a U.S. college. A full range of subject-matter offerings are presented by a distinguished faculty.
THE PHYSICAL setting of the University is a new and highly modern campus about two miles from San Jose.
The academic year runs from February to November with a recess in June. This corresponds to the season, placing the summer vacation from November to February.
Costa Rica, located between Nicaragua and Panama, has the reputation of being the stablest of all Latin American countries. Politically, it is considered among the most democratic nations in the hemisphere. Economically, it is soundly based, with agriculture and agriculture exports predominating. Socially, its 1,033,600 inhabitants have one of the highest standards of literacy. The education system is generally rated the best in all of Latin America.
Three-fourths of the population live in the Central Plateau where temperate climate prevails. Here, too, is San Jose, the capital city and seat of the University. San Jose, with 100,000 people, is a modern city and reflects in many ways the close ties that bind the country to the United States.
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(Editor's Note - The following articles were written by KU students and are reprinted from the Sunflower newsletter, a publication by the students participating in the Junior Year Abroad in Costa Rica program.)
San Jose Shopping Trip Adventurous
By Rebecca King
Emporia Junior
A shopping trip in San Jose offers
mystery, adventure, pathos, excitement, and fatigue. First of all, it is absolutely and completely impossible to tell from a window display what a store contains. This challenges the shopper with the problem of even locating a selection of the merchandise he needs.
For example, when searching for a bathing suit. I—quite naturally, it seemed to me—entered the first store which showed swim suits in the window. However, these turned out to be mere props for enhancing a new shipment of beach hats. I finally found a suit in a shop which exhibited none in its window or counter, but had quite a variety in the back room.
Next the shopper encounters adventures in the complexity of the size system: the size determinants in Costa Rica have no equivalent with those of the United States, and neither make sense anyway. Adventure can quite often lead to embarrassment when you accidentally ask for the wrong thing, the very wrong thing, in Spanish, or when your American foot is larger than any shoe in the store.
Pathos enters the scene when we come to the matter of the price of a selected article. This writer always tries to look wistful, foreign, and broke, but the clerk inevitably beats her by assuming a pose more pathetic than that of the little old lady selling lottery tickets outside. Somehow, the clerk can tell when one really is broke, and manages to set a price just within the limit.
But shopping in Central America is also exciting and fun: stuffed toads, hand-made carts, embroidered blouses, clothes and materials from all over the world. And there is always the faint possibility that you may encounter a bargain.
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Students Survive Storm of Tests
By Dolores Tutton Wichita junior
We, the students at the University of Costa Rica, were leading a rather happy-go-lucky life because most of our lecture classes require no out-of-class preparation. Then a small cloud appeared on our horizon of casual existence . . . tests.
It was interesting to note the warning signs of the storm because they appear at every university regardless of its weather zone: attendance becomes greater and students who had mysteriously disappeared after the first week of classes now reappear looking a little worried, the teacher receives greater attention because students expect him to drop hints about the test, and interest in
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