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Burlington Cuba College Study Abroad Program: Now Accepting Applications for Spring

Burlington College is now accepting applications for a semester of study at the University of Havana at its main campus in Havana, in the Spring.

A fascinating destination in the Caribbean, Cuba has been isolated from nearly all contact with its northern neighbor since the 1950s, when the United States government restricted travel to the island nation. Visits and study in Cuba are still restricted for U.S. citizens, and we have been isolated in turn from Cubans.  Now, Burlington College in Burlington, Vermont, operating under a license from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control, has created an educational program in Havana, the vibrant educational, political, and cultural capital of Cuba.

Living and studying in Cuba will sharpen the students' abilities to think critically and creatively. Cuba is a nation that, against enormous odds, has gone its own way and has developed a society and culture unlike any other.  For students from its powerful northern neighbor Cuba offers the singular opportunity to question, debate, and discuss, to get beneath the surface of propaganda and spin, and to evaluate for themselves the art, culture, history, and politics of this fascinating world 90 miles from our shores.