I have been privileged to be a Fellow at the Fulbright-Hays Summer Abroad Program Seminar, Argentina and Uruguay: From Colonialism to the Future, hosted by the Argentina and Uruguay Fulbright Commissions, summer 2006. The Program—designed in Argentina to examine the nation’s capacity to rebuild its political institutions and adjust to the realities of a fast –changing world, and in Uruguay, to explore the history, politics, economy and culture of Uruguay through a series of lectures, conferences and discussions that will be complemented with visits to cultural and historic sites and meetings with academic and political leaders—was held on site July 1 to August 4, 2006.
My curriculum project provides a Web-based Geographic Information Systems (GIS) module on Argentina and Uruguay to help improve student's geographic knowledge of the region and to engage faculty and students in specific map activities that will help increase students’ comprehension of maps as tools for comprehending the human drama.
The GIS module Exploring South America includes a host page, curriculum guide, and map exercises. Additional project site items include a list of participating Fulbright Fellows, links to the host Fulbright Comission Websites, and Photo Albums of the Argentina/Uruguay Study Abroad Program Seminar activities.
