The director is responsible for coordinating and supervising the program and serves as the professor of Spanish 244. Lodging and meals Housing is in private homes with Mexican families. Students generally share a room with another IUP student participant. Most participants find that the experience of living with a Mexican family for a summer is one of the most fruitful aspects of the program. There are many scheduled afternoon activities off campus, such as city tours, visits to hospitals, horseback rides, and yoga.
Students receive three internship credits and three elective credits.
The participant who does an internship will not take classes but will work approximately forty hours per week, without pay, in an area related to the intern s major. Recent interns have worked in such areas as accounting, biology, business administration, and elementary teaching. The student must submit a resume of past educational and work experience and a clearly defined statement of objectives by late February in order to make appropriate arrangements. The IUP director will make at least two on-site observations. The final grade assigned by the director is based on the quality of the journal and other assignments, and on the intern s performance as evaluated by the IUP director and the site supervisor.