U.S., Latin American Jesuit universities prepare online collaboration

Published: 2006-06-15

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Jesuit universities in the United States have been offering a wide selection of online courses for several years, but they are about to increase their online options by providing trilingual courses -- English, Spanish and Portuguese -- and an undergraduate curriculum for studying poverty. The new offerings are the result of collaboration with the Jesuit universities in Latin America. The trilingual catalog will go online during the middle of the summer this year and the online poverty course will be offered in the fall of 2007. The poverty curriculum will be modeled after an online, undergraduate poverty course that has been offered for the past two years to students at 10 Latin American Jesuit universities. For the existing program, each participating university developed a national case study in poverty. Students studied cases from their country and another country in detail, investigating the different situations of poverty and its causes throughout Latin America, and learning how to measure poverty and analyze data.

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