Spring Semester 2008
Tour Dates: May 13-21 (tentative)

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Argentina: Buenos Aires and Bariloche
A Challenge to the Adventurous: The Culture of Buenos Aires and the Snows of Bariloche

Surcharge $550
Dr. Ann Moncayo

BD 301, T 5:15-6:05pm

Students will study the works and lives of prominent Argentine people and visit Buenos Aires, the city that fostered them. Lovers of short stories will find Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar in many anthologies of world literature. Students will have the opportunity to learn of the cultural and political icon, Eva “Evita” Perón. They will also study and listen to traditional music sung by the father of the tango, Carlos Gardel. In Buenos Aires the students will visit the haunts of Borges and Gardel, tour the Casa Rosada where Evita gave her speeches to the workers and see La Boca, the colorful district where the tango was born. Leaving Buenos Aires, students will visit the mountains, lakes and volcanoes of Argentina in Bariloche, a town established by Swiss immigrants high in the snow-covered Andes Mountains.