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Calvin ventures into South America

Wed, Jun 01, 2011

This fall, for the first time in Calvin study-abroad history, students will be able to spend a semester in Peru. They will live with Peruvian families in Arequipa, a city of 900,000, and study with Peruvian students at the Universidad Cat贸lica San Pablo. They will visit Machu Picchu and the Nazca Lines.

They will also immerse themselves in Spanish language and culture, said Spanish professor Dianne Zandstra. 鈥淵ou can never really learn the language until you experience the language as a way of life and a way of looking at the world,鈥 she said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 kind of like doing science without a lab, nursing without clinicals.鈥

Though Calvin has offered interims in Brazil, Argentina and Peru, this latest Peru offering (an advanced course geared to Spanish majors) is Calvin鈥檚 first South American semester abroad. 鈥淭he whole South American continent is such a fascinating and essential part of Latin American culture, history and identity,鈥 Zandstra said. 鈥淧eru has that added layer of Andean reality; it鈥檚 a multilingual and multicultural environment 鈥 .The whole Andean region is emerging as an area of interest to the rest of the world.鈥

Calvin currently offers and interim classes in 20. And the college is home to 346 international students, hailing from Asia, Africa, Europe and Canada.

Those numbers rank Calvin second nationally among baccalaureate institutions for the total number of students who participate in a short-term study abroad, according to the 2010 Open Doors Report from the Institute of International Education. The school ranks sixth in the same category for the number of international students studying on campus.

鈥淲e have a culture, on the one hand, that encourages young people to study off-campus, and that is nice鈥攂ut it鈥檚 also a huge responsibility,鈥 said Don De Graaf, Calvin鈥檚 director for off-campus programs.

De Graaf wants to offer Calvin students study-abroad opportunities that are exploratory and fun鈥攁nd packed with meaning. The Calvin student studying abroad is not a tourist, he emphasized, but a pilgrim: 鈥淚f you鈥檙e a tourist, you can go somewhere and check off that you鈥檝e seen this, seen that.鈥 Calvin study abroad, like Calvin study everywhere, is meant to draw students closer to God, he said. And experiencing other cultures is a profound way to do so.

鈥淚 think our off-campus programs are a way for students to see the awesome places of this world, the wonder,鈥 De Graaf said. 鈥淭hey can also see the heartbreak of the world鈥攖he places where people are living in poverty鈥攁nd also the hope.鈥澛犅犅