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Advising Guidelines
The purpose of these guidelines is to facilitate advising regarding the Encuentro Dominicano Program. The curriculum for this program is much more flexible than that for previous programs in the Dominican Republic, covers many CORE requirements, and is fairly easy to understand. If anyone continues to have questions or concerns regarding the curricular dimension of this program, they may contact either Fran Klein (fklein@creighton.edu) or Tom Kelly ( thomaskelly@creighton.edu).
• One six-credit-hour class is required of all students who participate in the program: EDP 361: Social Justice in the Dominican Republic: Sociology, History, and Economics in a Caribbean Context.
The Advising Guidelines on that course are as follows:
College of A & S: Students may receive 3 hours of CORE credit under International/Global Studies and 3 hours of CORE per their designation of a chosen interest area (floating—which could include a history, sociology, economics, philosophy or theology CORE). This course is also Certified Writing.
College of Business: Students may receive 3 hours of the International Culture requirement and 3 hours of a Core requirement such as a social science, history or economics. Also possible is a business seminar per their designation of a chosen interest area and a research paper addressing that interest area.
Nursing: This course may possibly fulfill a skills requirement and an elective within the Nursing core.
• Spanish is required of all students who are not fluent speakers. Students may take 3 or 6 hours of Spanish. Students who are not Spanish majors will fulfil the language requirement for the College of A & S upon satisfactory completion of their semester in the Dominican Republic.
• Each semester, one business course will be offered in the evening for a three-week block. Other classes will be available as well and posted as soon as they are known. Students may also arrange directed readings with the Academic Director (Dr. Thomas Kelly— permission required ) for a theology course, or with other Creighton Professors who are willing to do this online from Creighton. The student should request and manage that personally.