Seminar brings Cuba and Canada closer through university
Havana, Apr 7 (RHC) The 14th edition of the Canadian Studies Seminar today brings another step in the rapprochement between Cuba and the northern country, particularly between the University of Oriente (UO) and Alberta.
Organized by the corresponding Chair of the UO, the event included the participation of Canadian students from the Augustana project, who are studying in Santiago de Cuba for a semester at the Faculty of Foreign Languages.
This body has been in operation since 2003 and brings together sociologists, historians, psychologists, philosophers, lawyers, economists and other specialists interested in the Anglophone world.
In previous appointments, multiculturalism and religion, non-verbal communication, tourism, immigration and native populations have been discussed; and student scientific work with different approaches to Canada have been promoted.
Experiences with Canadian students in Cuban universities have also been exposed, particularly related to sociocultural animation techniques for the didactic treatment of errors in learning Spanish as a foreign language.
Other spaces were dedicated to Literature and Linguistics with an approach to contemporary Canadian poetry; the joual as a linguistic variant of Québec French, and Chilean literature Canada seen through the poetry of Jorge Etcheverry.
The student struggle in Québec in 2012, the new challenges and projections of Hispanicism in Canada, more than half a century of bilateral relations, the languages spoken in that nation and the recovery of the environment have also been topics of previous meetings.
The distinction of Canada as one of the main sources of tourists to Cuba is a reality that is inserted in these academic seminars. (Source: Prensa Latina)
