Research, Internship and Volunteer Opportunities
Co-Curricular Opportunities
There are currently three options:
✓ English as a Second Language for CASA Students
You will become a Teaching Fellow alongside a distinguished Instructor of English for Cuban university students seeking to enhance their English skills, at the beginning or intermediate level. Classes meet in the afternoon, twice a week, for 90 minutes, throughout the semester. Upon successful completion, students receive a certificate demonstrating teaching ESL class in a foreign, intercultural environment.
Learn as a team alongside CASA-Cuba students who support you as teaching assistants.
Lic. Giselle Morales Sosa, English teacher
e-mail: gmoralesosa65@gmail.com
This course is for young Cubans who need English for their university studies or their working life. Course objective: Develop in students the 4 language skills: Oral expression, Written expression, Listening comprehension and Written comprehension. The main characteristic of this course is that foreign students work as Assistant Professors, supporting the course teacher in the delivery of the contents and playing a fundamental role in the students' oral practice. Work is carried out as a couple and as a team led by foreign students. In this way, Cubans have the possibility of practicing with natives of the language, listening to different accents, sharing knowledge and cultures.
CASA Cuba also provides you with the opportunity to develop and carry out a small research project to take place outside of Havana during a prolonged weekend halfway through the semester. This may be related to one or more of the classes that you take at CASA or UH. You will be reimbursed for your travel expenditures following CASA guidelines and be asked to make a short presentation
✓ Academic Journal Temas
Work with founding editor and CASA Professor Rafael Hernández in the editing and promotion of Cuba’s foremost social science journal, which also hosts monthly public debates on contemporary and controversial issues.
✓ Casa de las Américas
Work with one the directors of Casa’s prestigious programs, organizing events, publications, research, or social media outreach.
In 1979, the Casa de las Américas created the Center for Caribbean Studies (CEC) by calling for Caribbean literatures for the first time in its Literary Prize. The Center promotes research and promotion of the cultural diversity of the Caribbean and its corresponding diasporas, from a multidisciplinary perspective and through active dialogue with important creators, academics, researchers and cultural promoters in the region. Since 1981, he has edited the Annals of the Caribbean, whose texts, which appear in their original languages, reflect the complexity of Caribbean identity and the multiple perspectives of its analysis from a contemporary perspective. It currently convenes the International Colloquium on Cultural Diversity in the Caribbean and organizes the Caribbean Thought Cycle. It is directed at this time by the philosophy Camila Valdés León.
The Latino Studies Program in the United States was founded in 2009 by sociologist Antonio Aja, who currently directs it. Among its antecedents is the call for the Extraordinary Prize for Hispanic Literature in the United States in 1997. Organize workshops, conferences and publications. It holds an International Colloquium on a biennial basis that will take place in October from the 14th to the 16th, for which we offer translation, management and cooperation internships during the days of the event and prior to it.
Created in January 2011, by theater scientist Jaime Gómez Triana, the Studies Program on Native Cultures seeks to promote an approach to the history, memory, knowledge, spirituality and current challenges of the indigenous peoples of America, and to give know their realities and their cultural production through colloquiums, conferences, courses, exhibitions and the publication of books and multimedia projects. The Program organizes, on a biennial basis, the International Colloquium on Native Cultures of America and the Miradas desde Abya Yala space, in which conferences and audiovisuals on the subject come together. It publishes the monthly digital newsletter Agenda Abya Yala.
The Afro-American Studies Program was created in 2015 by researcher Zuleica Romay and constitutes an academic research and promotion platform, aimed at deepening studies of Africa's legacy in the continent's culture. The main objective of the Program is to promote the exchange of knowledge and knowledge about the African footprint on American arts and cultures, the consequences of transatlantic trafficking and slavery and its consequences today, as well as the contributions of African descendants to the national communities of the Americas. Organize colloquiums, workshops and publications on these topics.
Needs to inventory documents in English The Casa de las Américas Library has a Technical Processes area, this is where the documentary order is generated that will allow users to access the sources that satisfy their information needs. But also for the Library, the products generated in this area will allow it to have full control over the management and control of the documentary resources it has in its bibliographic collections, which is why we need to inventory a group of documents that are in the language English. It will be important to have students from the Consortium to guarantee their internship stay in the next semester and in this way they will learn about the heritage of our Library.
