Exeter in Mexico Overview

 

Students who have completed two years of Spanish may apply for a winter-term program for Seniors at the La Salle University, a private, coed day school in Cuernavaca, a city about an hour south of Mexico City. Students are taught grammar and literature by the resident director of the program from Phillips Exeter Academy, and attend other classes in art, math, history, geography, law, economics, etc., with Mexican students of the same age. Courses are complemented by field trips to sites of archaeological interest, such as Xochicalco, San Juan Teotihuacan, Taxco and Mexico City. Exonians live with families of their Mexican counterparts. Students receive five course credits (including two language course credits) for completion of the program. The 2009 Cuernavaca Program has fourteen students participating.