{"id":3333,"date":"2010-04-21T17:59:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=3333"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:44:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:44:29","slug":"slideshow-the-quito-classroom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2003\/winter03\/features\/the-quito-classroom\/slideshow-the-quito-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Slideshow: The Quito Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

The range of human experience was on the syllabus for Colby, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and Bowdoin students living and studying in Quito, Ecuador, last fall. Now in its fourth year, the Quito edition of the Off-Campus Study Consortium (other CBB centers are in London and Cape Town) gave 25 young people the opportunity to make intellectual connections to real-life experiences. In Quito, located 22 miles from the Equator with a population of 1.6 million, the students participated in two separate programs led by Lillian Guerra, assistant professor of history at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, and Russell Johnson, associate professor of biology at Colby.<\/p>\n

“There are no distractions from the material we are studying because we are living the material,” Guerra says. “I don’t think that students hearing about things in a classroom get even one fourth of the jolt that you get from living in the place you’re studying.”<\/p>\n\n\t\t