Developed Materials

The.objectives of Project-Mexico were to train a group of 15 community college instructors from Southern California in ail interdisciplinary approachintegrating ideological, technological, and societal perspectivesto the study of Mexican culture, to produce new curriculum materials for use,131 comaunity college classrodm instruction, and to develop a aodel for the study of other Latin American countries. After initial orientation and background reading, project participants spent six weeks of intensive study and travel in Mexico, focused on development-of individual curriculum projects. The project resulted in ninelteaching modules dealing with Mexican history and culture-and four teaching modules dealing specifically with Chicano Studies, two of rhich.are.addressed to the important issue of helping Chicano students adapt to a college environment. Logistics, rationale, summative and formative