Princeton-in-Cuba recruits students for spring trip
Professor Robert Whitney of the University of New Brunswick, Canada, spoke to students interested in the Princeton-in-Cuba program late Thursday afternoon in a speech titled Society and Political Culture in Cuba Today: A Historian's Perspective, sponsored by the University's Latin American studies program.This was the third of four meetings for students interested in Princeton-in-Cuba.The program aims to enrich the educational experience of fieldwork during a student's undergraduate career, said director Kenneth Mills."We are inviting students of all levels toward information and experience, deeper knowledge and complex thinking, trial and error . . . in other words, field research."And it all started in a precept three years ago.Princeton-in-Cuba, a student-inspired initiative sponsored and supervised by the Program in Latin American Studies, is composed of approximately 12 to 15 students who visit Cuba to conduct field research.Before traveling to Cuba, the students regularly engage in faculty-led seminars and further hone their research plans.While in Cuba, students pursue fieldwork, conduct in-depth interviews, consult local libraries and archives and immerse themselves in the Latin American culture."Students will have interaction with the people there," said program associate director David Figueroa-Ortiz.