Courses
A central focus of the international education work of Jacaranda in Mexico is the creation and publishing of innovative, dynamic bilingual courses of study,
curriculum, and textbooks. Each year the organization looks to add two or more courses to its library. Currently, Jacaranda courses are part
of main stream curriculum in high schools throughout the country. For more information on the courses we have available and making them
available to your students, family, or institution please send us an email at courses@jacarandaeducation.org
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Courses:
English Language Studies
Low Intermediate to Advance: Jacaranda offers a series of English Language Studies textbooks from levels low intermediate to advance. Each
book follows a multi-disciplinary approach to language learning. What makes our books and courses distinct is that they are presented through a
range of themes steeped in current affairs, which have a direct connection to the local context in which the course is taking place. We believe,
for example, that a student being taught English through an introduction to the sounds and sights of New York graffiti will find it hard to create
meaning from that context unless it is directly linked into his or her local context. All of our English language studies textbooks therefore,
seek to hyper link contexts, so to speak, allowing the student to more easily create meaning and understanding and relevancy from the material
to his or her daily life. As a result, our books are constantly being updated and new themes added. We currently offer a series of three different
thematically based books for each level.
Book Samples
Talking to the World: An Introduction to the United Nations
An Introduction to the United Nations is a bilingual course and textbook, which attempts to present to the student, in a straight-forward
and simplified fashion, the political and working structure of the United Nations. The course focuses on five chapters: Peace and Security,
Environment and Development, Human Rights, Humanitarian Affairs, and International Law. This course is born of a belief that the ever increasing
majority of the problems we face as individuals and communities are global in nature and scope. The UN represents the world’s response to global
governance. Nonetheless, it remains fraught with problems and the majority of youth know little about how it works. If the UN is to fulfill its
promise and function as the beacon of future world affairs then our youth will need to become far more informed in order to help their governments
make good choices and decisions for world peace and prosperity within the UN structure.
Book Sample
Education is the New Rock and Roll: A Youth Media Course for Mexican Students
Education is the New Rock and Roll is a bilingual youth media course, which introduces youth to youth media education through the tools of Adobe Photoshop
and Premiere. In this course students learn to critically view their surrounding community to identify and form projects, which aim to highlight
or instigate a change. Students then proceed to use the Adobe programs to create short videos, documentaries, photo essays or art projects, which
express and connect with an audience in their immediate community and context. The course is available in three levels: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced.
Book Sample
Mornings in Mexico
Mornings in Mexico is a cross-disciplinary course which follows an increasing trend in higher education studies which have departed from
the traditional departmentalized structure of learning for cross-discplinary studies more in line with the demands of the new global world.
This course combines studies in European Literature, World History, Colonial Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, and Politics, through an
exploration of the lives and works of five key individuals in DH Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, Edward Weston, Graham Greene, and Zach Condon who each
came to live, work and understand life in the southern Mexican State of Oaxaca.
Through the artistic works of these iconic individuals the student will step into events such as The First World War, the economic collapse of the
1920´s, the Mexican revolution, the decline of the colonial empire, as well as the separation of Church and State. More importantly, the student
will explore the parallel Mexican cultures that exist within the mindset and cultural and artistic perception of the European and North American
visitor.
The Mexican student understands his/ her culture and the world he inhabits in his daily life. What is more difficult for him to
comprehend is the world seen by the European/ North American visitor to Mexico and the world that he takes home with him.
As the world and its markets become ever more homogenic and interconnected, finding harmony and understanding between peoples is more
important than ever. A key part of building such understanding is learning to widen our visión and knowledge in order to decipher not only
what we see, through our own eyes, but what others see in us through their own eyes. To see through the eyes of the “other” allows us to see
both what connects us and disconnects us as people.
Book Sample
TOEFL Ibt
Jacaranda offers an intensive preparation course for the TOEFL ibt exam. TOEFL ibt was introduced around the world in 2006 and has become
the most recognized English proficiency exam in the world. Unlike the old paper exam the ibt exam incorporates all disciplines and offers the
opportunity to receive results in a 15 day period. Jacaranda strongly advocates that students, who are interested in taking the TOEFL ibt course
take the preparation course as it is an exam, which focuses on a very particular skill set. Course are available to individuals or groups of 5 and
under. Schedules are flexible. Course are available both in Mexico City and Oaxaca. For more information on this particular course please email
courses@jacarandaeducation.org
Adobe Flash Professional
The Adobe® Flash® Platform is a set of technologies to support creative software solutions for markets including;
entertainment, advertising, government, and business. Flash Professional is the primary tool to create cutting edge content
including art, animation, videos, websites, video games, and applications.
This Spring Jacaranda will offer a one-time course
in conjunction with professor Samuel Asher Rivello, Director of Rivello Multimedia Consulting. This program is a 6 week course
of study, which meets twice a week for three hours in the afternoons.
This course will teach students to create and deliver interactive content for the web, desktop, and mobile using Adobe Flash
CS5.
The course will focus on drawing, editing, and animating visual assets as well as publishing the content to a variety of
devices. It will also provide a general overview of interactivity; buttons, user-interface components, and the Action-Script
programming language.
This is a bilingual course and will be taught in both Spanish and English. Course certification will be provided by Jacaranda
Education. Age Range: 15 +. Maximum Capacity: 10. Dates: April 3 – May 10, 2012.
For more information on this particular course please email
courses@jacarandaeducation.org