With a highly qualified and professional international team, CIDH organizes a great variety of technical and educational programs, providing students with the opportunity to sharpen their Spanish skills, and gain an understanding of Central and Latin American cultural and natural richness. Through the program, students acquire in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience on the multidimensionality of human development and the current challenges faced by the region.
Currently CIDH offers two study abroad programs during the Spring and Fall semesters, “Justice, Human Rights, and Development in Latin America" and Sustainable Human Development in Latin America. Both programs are interdisciplinary and highly participatory, and offer experiential learning opportunities through field trips and site visits related to the course subjects. CIDH programs offer students the chance for complete cultural and language immersion through homestays with local families and by the progressive incorporation of their developing Spanish skills into the course dynamics, thus making the programs practically bilingual.
CIDH’s partner for these two programs is Universidad Latina de Costa Rica (ULatina), the largest private university in Costa Rica, with a student body of 16,000. With its modern facilities, advanced equipment, experienced and efficient staff, and extensive student services, ULatina provides the perfect environment to run CIDH's highly participatory programs, also involving local students, further adding to both the academic and the cultural experience.
At an international level, CIDH works with several American universities, as Villanova University, Drexel University, Northeastern University, Suffolk University, Boston College, Quinnipiac University, Kalamazoo College, and The George Washington University, to name a few, and has also hosted students from several other schools in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
