Over the past month and a half, student studying abroad have fallen in love with the city of Buenos Aires. Abroad correspondent Chloe Chan small taste of her life as a student studying abroad.
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Opinion: The World Is Your Oyster! (Terms and Conditions May Apply)
Students are regularly encouraged to study abroad during their collegiate careers. But with Pepperdine’s lack of diverse locations, just how far is the University allowing their students to go?
Prof. Roshawnda Derrick Emphasizes the Beauty of Bilingualism
Hispanic Studies Professor Roshawnda Derrick said she is passionate about ending the stigmatism surrounding code-switching among bilingual speakers. Derrik is determined to help students develop a deepened cultural worldview.
Q&A: Senior Spotlight — Bailey Luber
Bailey Luber, an open-minded International Studies major who loves to travel, shares how Pepperdine’s Buenos Aires, Argentina program impacted her. After graduation, she hopes to teach English in Spain while doing a cultural exchange for a year.
Pepperdinos Juntos Club Invites Pepperdine Spanish Speakers to Keep the Language Alive
The new Pepperdinos Juntos club facilitates a space where students can accelerate their Spanish speaking in a casual setting. Presidents Nicholas Olson and Aaron Ekenstam were inspired to create this club after studying in Buenos Aires.
Opinion: Try Switching it Up
This is America; we speak English — or maybe we don’t.
Spanish Professors Share Uruguayan Culture Through Film Screening Event
A night of tango, empanadas and a Uruguayan film is coming to Pepperdine on Oct. 10.
Color Esperanza: The Power of Diversity in Cultural Education
Photo courtesy of @HaycoxVikings Instagram Before Pepperdine University students can receive a grade from one Spanish professor’s advanced level course, they must first fully immerse themselves within the Spanish-speaking cultures to master fluency. This initiative is practiced through cultural projects like Color Esperanza, which means Color of Hope, and Professor Cristina Roggero’s implementation of the […]
Black Students Must Go Abroad
Image Courtesy of the BSA For my sophomore year at Pepperdine, I had the opportunity to study abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I had never been to another country before and, due to the many issues that African Americans have faced across America, such as police brutality, discrimination due to skin color and culture or […]
Try to Remember
Art by Christine Nelson Tutoring a Spanish 152 student this semester, I realize how much I’ve forgotten — and how much I surprisingly remember — since completing my Hispanic Studies degree last spring. I sometimes won’t immediately remember simple things, like the third-person plural preterite endings for verbs, but other things that I never realized […]
