{"id":9051,"date":"2019-07-10T08:50:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T13:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9051"},"modified":"2019-07-11T17:11:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T22:11:56","slug":"news-press-now-professor-hopes-trip-will-expand-students-horizons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/10\/news-press-now-professor-hopes-trip-will-expand-students-horizons\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Press NOW: Professor hopes trip will expand students&#8217; horizons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"author-popup-0f2b7d6c-38ca-11e6-9433-b76253964178-asset-559f080a-9dd4-11e9-9df4-e76ebf1c3800\" class=\"tnt-byline asset-byline\" title=\"\" data-original-title=\"\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/newspressnow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/4\/2b\/42babd48-9de7-11e9-8062-f31bd6d1fc5f\/5d1d35575c40a.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C543\" width=\"1200\" height=\"543\" \/>By Daniel Cobb News-Press NOW, <\/span>Jul 4, 2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>Trips overseas, regardless of the destination, make memories to last a lifetime, said Eduardo Castilla Ortiz, an assistant professor of Spanish at Missouri Western State University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>It\u2019s an idea he\u2019s been instilling in his students over the summer before their trip to Spain beginning Friday, July 5.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>With a few days of intensive classes in preparation for the journey \u2014 which included learning history, slang and cultural mannerisms \u2014 behind them, students involved in the course also must present overseas, make frequent journal entries and have a written and oral final with Ortiz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI take them to cities that they would most likely hear (the language), such as Madrid, the capital, Seville, Granada and Barcelona. Though it may seem stereotypical, they demonstrate the richness and variety of the culture of Spain,\u201d Ortiz said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more and see the video version of this story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/news\/local_news\/professor-hopes-trip-will-expand-students-horizons\/article_559f080a-9dd4-11e9-9df4-e76ebf1c3800.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel Cobb News-Press NOW, Jul 4, 2019 Trips overseas, regardless of the destination, make memories to last a lifetime, said Eduardo Castilla Ortiz, an assistant professor of Spanish at Missouri Western State University. It\u2019s an idea he\u2019s been instilling in his students over the summer before their trip to Spain beginning Friday, July 5. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,970],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9052,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051\/revisions\/9052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}