Associate Professor of Management Larry Lopez will lead a group of 10 Metro students on an eight-week international business program this summer in Guadalajara, Mexico.

The group departs June 9 and will spend the first four weeks taking intensive Spanish language courses and a course titled Doing Business in Mexico. The second half of the program will be spent doing an internship in Mexico.

In its third year, the international business program has previously placed students in internships with the Colorado/Mexico Trade Office, Intercontinental Hotels, the American Chamber of Commerce and Hershey's-Mexico.

"Our program is extremely rare because we have professors accompany the students and we find internships for the students," Lopez said.

By next year, Lopez hopes to expand the program into a Central American or South American country, and in three years hopes to take the program to Spain. "Our plan is to continue to offer a consistent yearly international business program so students can plan on it."

To read more go to http://www.mscd.edu/~mexico/