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Adjusting Our Focus: The MUNDO SoCal Experience 2024

Friday-Saturday, December 13-21, 2024 (Los Angeles and San Diego, CA)

This year’s MUNDO SoCal (Southern California) Experience theme of  "Adjusting our Focus" will explore how to understand the impact of diverse identities and experiences on how we live, learn, and work together, and how to define what our responsibilities are within a community when working toward positive social change.

The experience cost is $895.00 which will include:

  • Airfare and charter transportation to Hostelling International Santa Monica where the group will stay in SoCal. 
  • Experience multicultural walking tours and site visits in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and San Diego with additional time for group exploration of other parts of the city.
  •  Meet and engage with Ohio State alumni and current students from Ohio State who now live in, or are from, the SoCal area over a group meal. 
  • A visit to a working Hollywood Studio and a tour of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures center.
  • Reflect on how context has historically and currently shaped how individuals and groups can see the world similarly and differently at certain times, and how understanding creates great opportunities to live and learn with others in new and different ways.  

Before the experience, participants will need to: 

  • Submit the MUNDO SoCal online application by Sunday, September 15, 2024, at 11:59 PM (NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE).
  • Submit a first payment of $300 by 11:59 PM on Monday, October 7, 2024.
  • Submit a second payment of $300 by 11:59 PM on Friday, October 25, 2024.
  • Submit a Final payment of $295 by 11:59 PM on Friday, November 8, 2024
  • Attend the required Pre-Departure workshop on Monday, December 2, 2024, in the Tanya Rutner Hartman Room (Ohio Union) to receive the final itinerary and safety and security information about the experience. 

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