Courses

Our Legal Spanish course is directed towards law students, lawyers, judges, public defenders and prosecutors, and other workers in the judicial sphere. The course will allow students to communicate using legal language and terminology, understand legal arguments and texts, write documents using Spanish judicial vocabulary, and communicate with clients. Students will also learn about the Guatemalan legal system and the institutions that comprise it. The course includes at least one practice visit to a court, law office, or other office related to the judicial world.

This course is offered at Proyecto Lingüístico Quetzalteco in Xela and at La Escuela de la Montaña. All of our courses run on flexible timelines; students may choose to study for as many weeks as they’d like.

Our Spanish-for-Social Work course is directed towards social workers, educators, community organizers, activists, and students of social work and other social sciences. This course focuses on increasing oral and written knowledge of the Spanish most necessary for the social work sector.

The course includes specific vocabulary pertinent to socio-cultural themes, such as migration and the situation of Latino populations, and a focus on oral communication, both comprehension and expression. The course will include at least one practice visit to an organization working in the area. This course is only offered at Proyecto Lingüístico Quetzalteco in Xela. All of our courses run on flexible timelines; students may choose to study for as many weeks as they’d like.

This course offers an introduction to contemporary Latin American literature, focusing on 20th century writing and focusing on the relationship between literature and social change. Students will read poetry, short stories, plays, testimonial literature, and at least one contemporary novel. Through literary analysis, students will learn about the region’s history, politics, human rights, social activism, and gender roles through the lens of fictitious and non-fictitious characters – and above all, through the voices of female Latin American writers, who represent the women of this continent.

The course will also include an analysis of realism and Central American testimony literature. The course will include trips to the theater and cinema, as well as talks with local writers invited by the teacher. This course is only offered at Proyecto Lingüístico Quetzalteco in Xela. All of our courses run on flexible timelines; students may choose to study for as many weeks as they’d like.

This course is designed for students with an advanced level of Spanish. The objective of the course is for students to improve their writing and oral expression through discussions, written reports and compositions, debates, readings, and necessary grammar revision. Emphasis will be placed on learning to express abstract ideas while correctly using complex grammatical structures. This course is only offered at Proyecto Lingüístico Quetzalteco in Xela. All of our courses run on flexible timelines; students may choose to study for as many weeks as they’d like.

The primary purpose of this course is to explore the history of cultural inheritance and political movements in Latin America, from pre-Spanish invasion to the present. Because the course is taught in Guatemala, we will focus primarily on Guatemalan and Central American history, although students will be exposed to common historical developments and cultural characteristics shared throughout Latin America.

As well as learning through texts and films, the course will include guest lectures by Guatemalan historians and anthropologists and excursions to museums, archeological sites, historical monuments, and local cultural events. There will also be many opportunities for exchange with Guatemalans from diverse backgrounds with regard to race, ethnicity, socio-economic class, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. This course is only offered at Proyecto Lingüístico Quetzalteco in Xela. All of our courses run on flexible timelines; students may choose to study for as many weeks as they’d like.